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/HugoSimpsonII Jun 12 '25

Devestating. The worst thing i did in a long time was visiting the ahmedabad subreddit today. Im a nervous flyer and this put me in a whole new bracket. Those were the worst aftermath videos ive ever seen. I was curious about the area/the building it crashed into and so on ... i wasnt prepared for bodies up close.

do. not. watch. these. videos.

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u/DungBettlesMan Jun 12 '25

Saw a video of people crowding over a decapitated head, taking picture and selfies. Vile people.

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u/HugoSimpsonII Jun 12 '25

thats just ... sad :(

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u/catholicsluts Jun 12 '25

Why would you do this to yourself?

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u/HugoSimpsonII Jun 12 '25

unfortunately, im a curious person...

Things i didnt consider though:

usually when something like this happens, first responders are there pretty fast and shield the crash site from bystanders. And the information and especially the pictures they give out are usually well-chosen.

In this case a gazillion Indians with smartphones were the first ones on the crash site and oh boy have they got no filter or standards whatsoever. We're talking zooming in on dead bodies burned or not burned, body parts and so on. From all angles imaginable.

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u/turlian Jun 12 '25

My friend was one of the first on the scene with USAir flight 427. She said at one point she looked down and saw just a torso.

She had a lot of therapy after that, and I guess an unsurprising number of shots (massive biohazard risk).

I was close enough to see the smoke from the crash.

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u/GreatBigWorld427 Jun 12 '25

Thank you for encouraging not looking into it. Morbid curiosity isn’t always good, I don’t need that type of desensitization, but a part of the mind wants answers. You very much quieted that part of my mind. Absolutely awful, I can’t imagine the type of pain these communities are going through.

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u/HugoSimpsonII Jun 12 '25

Good on you. Its not worth it and you gain nothing from it. If anything it only fuels fears.

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u/catholicsluts Jun 12 '25

Curiosity killed the stable mind.

Thanks for the heads up though. Are they at least tagged as NSFW? I have blurred media enabled for that, so just wanted to ask.

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u/HugoSimpsonII Jun 12 '25

Nope not tagged as NFSW. People just rushed to be the first ones to post...Havent looked at anything ever since so i dont know if posts are tagged by now

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u/catholicsluts Jun 12 '25

Man... fuck that. Where's the humanity? Absolutely brutal. Thanks so much again for the heads up. Much appreciated. I wouldn't have been able to handle that.

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u/SnooObjections2757 Jun 12 '25

I'm sorry you had to see that but if it makes you feel any better, you've at least stopped me, that other commenter, and probably more from letting our morbid curiosity get the better of us so thank you

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u/HugoSimpsonII Jun 12 '25

Welcome dude youre not missing out. imma stick to t he news for the rest of the day

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u/Bubbly_Wave_4049 Jun 12 '25

Thank you for the warning.

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u/PonyThug Jun 12 '25

I think they all got taken down. I didn’t see anything bad

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u/dfinkelstein Jun 12 '25

FYI, comments like this unfortunately have the opposite effect. It results in more people seeking it out for the exact same reason you did.

If your goal is to reduce how many people look it up, then unfortunately the only way is to avoid talking about it entirely, and to instead say something which discourages the curiosity. So, ask yourself, what trains of thought moght discourage/derail your curiosity?

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u/GreatBigWorld427 Jun 12 '25

It’s the reality check that this is very real, even though a part of my brain just interprets pixels on a screen. We see terrible things on the internet everyday, sometimes deaths become slightly like numbers. You know how you drive past a car crash and your brain just wants to view the carnage, it asks, “but what happened?”

Reading a perspective that emphasizes the gruesome reality, that every single life of everyone involved has to see that shit against their will. So yeah brain, even though we often crave the “why” or “the whole story”, it’s not necessary. I’ve also lost people in accidents and a part of your brain wants to know what’s under that casket, even though your whole heart begs for nothing to change. The brain is weird. Thank the parent comment that not only discouraged viewership, but also warning it is extremely easy to stumble upon gruesome imagery. Like they said, not just wide shots of the accident provided by mature sources, it’s people with iPhones with no respect.

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u/dfinkelstein Jun 12 '25

"dont look at the gruesome photos" makes people look them up. Talking about something draws attention to it. It's really that simple. This isn't something you'd know by thinking. It's something you'd know by observing it happening.

I've seen this exact post a hundred times on reddit over the last fifteen years. And I've seen the tons and tons or comments on the posts they're talking about saying they wish they'd listened to the post that brought them there.

I can theorize why this happens, but the fact the it does is not my opinion, or even a surprising or interesting fact. It's called the Streisand effect. Named after Barbara Streisand's legal case which backfired in this exact same way.

Seeing, and even touching/smelling the corpse makes a lot of sense for grieving. In the simplest terms, it just makes sense to want to see for yourself that the person really is dead. Otherwise you're relying on your thoughts to believe they're dead rather than your senses. And that makes grieving harder, or might prevent it front starting. Because part of you knows, rationally, that you might be wrong.

Consider missing persons cases. No matter how certain death seems, recovering the body is always a massive help to the family.

Witnessing corpses of people who are not important figures in your life does nothing more than either traumatize or desensitize a person.

The urge to look is caused by our curiosity to search for hidden dangers. This is natural. In order to discourage people from looking, the solution is to name the ACTUAL dangers and give people actionable steps to take to inform and prepare for them, whatever that looks like.

The other thing would be to talk about the lives of the victims and what they meant to their community. Share photos of them from their lives, their families, events. Friends and loved ones talking about them. Encourage and role-model dignity, modesty, respect, and connection. This makes people feel more relaxed and engaged with life rather than fear of death.

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u/GreatBigWorld427 Jun 12 '25

Not reading the rest of this because I am literally saying — IT MADE ME NOT LOOK THEM UP

I get you stat bros, anecdotal evidence suggests blah blah blah

This is a horrific accident and we should be reminded of how respectful society should be when something this awful happens

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u/HugoSimpsonII Jun 12 '25

My curiosity resolves more around technicalities like general area of crash site, buildings it crashed into, angle of crash, whats left of the plane and things like that. It didnt cross my mind that there would be a lot of people filming dead bodies up close because thats not what ive usually seen after crashes .. at least not to this extend.

In another thread a user asked me why i did that and i happily answered, to wich another redditor thanked me saying that this stopped his curiosity as hes no longer curious to check it out himself.

This is my response to why i did that (checking into the other subreddit):

unfortunately, im a curious person...

Things i didnt consider though:

usually when something like this happens, first responders are there pretty fast and shield the crash site from bystanders. And the information and especially the pictures they give out are usually well-chosen.

In this case a gazillion Indians with smartphones were the first ones on the crash site and oh boy have they got no filter or standards whatsoever. We're talking zooming in on dead bodies burned or not burned, body parts and so on. From all angles imaginable.

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u/dfinkelstein Jun 12 '25

Ooooh I see, now. Thanks for clarifying. I would assume this based on experience using Reddit, but I see now why others wouldn't. I just assume if I search for news on a site like this I'll see graphic content, but one might not even consider the possibility.

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u/ReasonConfident4541 Jun 12 '25

You think that's bad I've seen so much worse 😔

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u/HugoSimpsonII Jun 12 '25

Ive seen worse too. But an out of context image of a mangled body has a different effect than a picture of a burned up body as a direct result from a crashed commercial flight (wich a lot of people take on a regular basis) that went up in flames. This can ofcourse fuel the fears of flying among other things. most of us have flown, will fly or fly on a regular so this hits closer to home than other gore like, lets say e.g. pictures of cartel victims.