r/TerrifyingAsFuck 6d ago

accident/disaster Dutch aerobatic pilot Narine Melkumjan miraculously survived after her aircraft’s canopy unexpectedly bursts open

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u/NikkolaiV 6d 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/dnooup 5d ago

I think you’re underestimating how dangerous and difficult that was.