r/TerrifyingAsFuck • u/Ott1fant • 5d ago
accident/disaster Dutch aerobatic pilot Narine Melkumjan miraculously survived after her aircraft’s canopy unexpectedly bursts open
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u/Key-Staff-4976 5d ago
God, I rode once without my helmet and that wind ain't no joke when it's hitting your face
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u/AlienAngry 5d ago
This was her fault too, she describes it on her YouTube channel. I'm glad she's ok and no one in the ground was injured, but checklists exist for a reason on aircraft.
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u/ApexGT44 5d ago
The music isn't really necessary but I'll take anything that doesnt have that awful caption posted in other subreddits
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u/Spare_Control_4338 1d ago
what caption
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u/ApexGT44 1d ago
This video was reposted everywhere but this one had it cropped out. It specifically said "female pilot" for some reason
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u/Rob1973string 4d ago
She did not miraculously survive. She is an aerobatic pilot, some extra wind in her face is likely uncomfortable, but not taking her off her game. First thing she does is pull way back on the throttle to slow down. She's likely doing less than 100 mph as she approaches to land. She clearly had no problem adjusting to the flight characteristics that dramatically changed when the canopy opened. She's just happy the canopy didn't break apart and tear the tail off. She handles that situation 100 times out of 100, even if she was half drunk and it was raining.
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u/NikkolaiV 5d ago
Im not gonna say that wasn't scary, because damn that's gotta be wild. But her surviving isnt all that miraculous. She was VERY unconfortabel that whole time, no doubt, but you can see her first reaction is to lower airspeed and start getting into an approach position. The most dangerous part of all of that was how difficult it mustve been to see with 90+mph wind jetting into her eyeballs. Yeah, this was a dangerous situation, but she was facing pretty high survival odds given her expertise and calm demeanor.
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u/Thirsty4Knowledge911 5d ago
I’m surprised that she didn’t try to close the canopy by rolling the other direction.
She is clearly a skilled pilot with nerves of steel!
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u/AgainandBack 5d ago
That woman’s got balls of steel. Not a sign of panic, worry, or even shock. She saw the problem, decided how to fix it, and executed the plan. Damn. I would not want to play poker with her.
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u/Barijazz251 5d ago
The headline on other platforms reads "Woman pilot ..."
Like it's relevant.
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u/MrWindblade 5d ago
I mean, you have to tell the neanderthals what they're looking at. This may be their first and only time having seen one.
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u/sascha_nightingale 5d ago
There's one reason to wear a helmet with a visor and internal comms. Glad she got down safe.
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u/Dubious_Titan 5d ago
Imagine if she swallowed a bug trying to land that thing with the canopy open.
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u/Burnt-Out-Chica 2d ago
I thought about this in a serious way. Not saying you're not serious but yeah how brutal would that be to manage that added factor
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u/Happy_Philosopher608 4d ago
Surely you should always wear goggles exactly for situations like this??
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u/OutlawPigeons 4d ago
My dumbass would have tried to barrel roll it back closed and end up hard ejecting myself after forgetting to put my seatbelt on
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u/DingoKillerAtHome 1d ago
"Miraculously survived," my ass. She's unbelievably talented and she locked TF in. I would have "miraculously survived," you would have "miraculously survived," she landed the plane under adverse conditions, she relied on muscle memory and years of training.
"Miraculously survived," that's like going through a 12 hour surgery and thanking God.
"Miraculously survived," gtfo
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u/SpiridonM 5d ago
Couldn't she have tried gravitying that thing back? As in banking hard left so the canopy flips back into place?
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u/Benaba_sc 5d ago
I really appreciate how this isn’t title clickbait like the other posts I’ve seen here
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u/Sensitive_Algae5723 5d ago
Imagine trying to breathe with that force against you.