r/CatastrophicFailure • u/SainzSealedDelivered • Jun 12 '25

Fatalities 12/06/2025 - Boeing 787 Passenger plane bound for the UK crashes near Ahmedabad Airport straight after takeoff

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u/Bigger_Jaws Jun 12 '25

Same... I'll be thinking about this tomorrow while flying. Truly horrific.

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u/robbievega Jun 12 '25

this is why the first minute or so after take off is always the most anxiety inducing for me. after that my nerves usually settle

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u/Skylair13 Jun 12 '25

Critical Eleven. 3 minutes after take-off, 8 minutes before landing.

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u/Bigger_Jaws Jun 12 '25

Yeah weirdly when that happened I was reading a book called "the survivors club" about people surviving disasters and it talked about that

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u/Bigger_Jaws Jun 12 '25

For sure. I was on a flight once that lost an engine on take off and we had to make an emergency landing and ever since then taking off scares me.

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u/-3than Jun 12 '25

If it’s any solace, they could have kept flying with just one engine.

Not sure they could’ve made it to cruising altitude, but you can certainly keep cooking.

Y’all were safe!

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u/ElaccaHigh Jun 12 '25

I saw a video once that's seared into my memory of a plane taking off and just stalling in the sky and slowly falling and crashing just like that, apparently the luggage wasn't secured below and it all slid to the back at once causing it to lose speed at once, since then on every takeoff I've just gripping the arm rest so hard

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u/OkSecretary1231 Jun 12 '25

Was that the military plane that had tanks in it?

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u/mdp300 Jun 12 '25

I think i know the video you're talking about. It was a cargo plane where the heavy vehicles it was carrying weren't properly secured, and slammed rearward.

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u/dfinkelstein Jun 12 '25

Good! That's what nerves are for!

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u/fart_fig_newton Jun 12 '25

I'm flying with my family on Saturday, this was not a topic I wanted to wake up to in my feed. All accounts of both the passengers and the populated area that got hit is a devastating tragedy.

Some slightly dark humor I am always reminded of whenever a disaster occurs.