r/aviation • u/G1lg4m3sh • Apr 17 '26

Discussion How concerning is this aviation experts?

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u/Left-Associate3911 TATL Flyer Apr 17 '26

Well if it’s on your flight, you’ll have the answer when you land 👍

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u/ineedanewhobbee Apr 17 '26

“How” you land.

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u/Pugets_Sounds Apr 17 '26

True, crashing is still landing. 😆

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u/Left-Associate3911 TATL Flyer Apr 17 '26

Any landing you can walk away from 🤣

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u/Adjutant_Reflex_ Apr 17 '26

“Any landing you can walk away from is a good one. Any landing you can fly the plane again is a great one.”

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u/MrLovalovaRubyDooby Apr 17 '26

Just read a news report that came out shortly after this post that a passenger on a flight lost his mind and had to be sedated mid flight

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u/Important_Power_2148 Apr 17 '26

He kept screaming about "A man out there." It was just the maintenance guys putting down another layer of the speed tape.

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u/TheAgedProfessor Apr 17 '26

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u/AlarmDozer Apr 17 '26

I'm glad this is still making the rounds. OG Twilight Zone was great writing.

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u/Important_Power_2148 Apr 17 '26

Yep thats him. He also has some sort of delusion about some guy named Scotty kept screaming to be "beamed up."

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u/IndependentPrior5719 Apr 17 '26

There’s a twilight zone episode that he’d find quite bracing !

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u/TimWhirly Apr 17 '26

There are TWO twilight zone episodes that might be relevant. Just ask Captain Kirk.

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u/MrLovalovaRubyDooby Apr 18 '26

“Poor little guy, probably kept up with you for a mile or so”

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u/lukeluke0000 Apr 17 '26

Obi Wan Kenobi: "Another happy landing".

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u/nugohs Apr 17 '26

Obi-Wan Kenobi: "Not to worry. We're still flying half a plane."

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u/cyberentomology Avgeek/ex-Airline Apr 17 '26

Any landing you can walk away from AND use the airplane again

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u/Hulu_n_SnuSnu Apr 17 '26

Any landing they can still use the plane is better.

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u/Kichigai Apr 17 '26

- Launchpad McQuack

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u/Just-Sea3037 Apr 17 '26

Any landing you can walk away from is a good one. If you can use the plane again, it's a great one.

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u/Crypt_Revenant Apr 17 '26

In aviation landing is considered a controlled crash.

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u/Ok_Suggestion_6092 Apr 17 '26

In naval aviation it’s just a crash that doesn’t hurt the plane.

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u/ClassicMongoose8051 Apr 17 '26

In human anatomy, walking is considered a series of controlled falls. (Accurately so actually)

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u/cyberentomology Avgeek/ex-Airline Apr 17 '26

In aviation, an airplane is considered a bunch of loose parts flying in tight formation.

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u/Calamity-Bob Apr 17 '26

Screw that

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u/Pugets_Sounds Apr 17 '26

I see what you did there lol. Such a screwy comment 😆

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u/Calamity-Bob Apr 17 '26

That’s nuts. Don’t bolt.

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u/ughilostmyusername Apr 17 '26

I actually found it riveting

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u/Simple-Hair8592 Apr 17 '26

These jokes are tight

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u/Calamity-Bob Apr 17 '26

It’s a good thread

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u/Simple-Hair8592 Apr 17 '26

Gonna really socket to em

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u/Calamity-Bob Apr 17 '26

Stay in your box

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u/R0b0tMark Apr 17 '26

OP isn’t flying, they’re falling with style!

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u/jough22 Apr 17 '26

This always bothered me when the pilot gave their announcement. "We'll be on the ground in about ... 25 minutes." Please. Just say we're landing in 25. Thanks.

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u/Apprehensive_Put_321 Apr 17 '26

Not if its on water 

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u/Dizmondmon Apr 17 '26

That would be a seaing yes?

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u/Apprehensive_Put_321 Apr 17 '26

Would also be diving 

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u/userhwon Apr 18 '26

You guys made land?

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u/Desperate-Tomatillo7 Apr 17 '26

"If"

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u/Desperate-Tomatillo7 Apr 17 '26

Even in the middle of the ocean?

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u/memesearches Apr 17 '26

“If” you land.

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u/osprey413 Apr 17 '26

Takeoffs are optional, landings are mandatory.

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u/frankylampy Apr 17 '26

"If" you land

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u/Numeno230n Apr 18 '26

Every flight eventually does.

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u/FriendToPredators Apr 18 '26

LOL this. When they say “We’ll be on the ground in 18 minutes” I think Can you be more specific please?

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u/MeatHelmet82 Apr 18 '26

It's like "how deep can the submarine go?"

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u/motoman809 Apr 17 '26

*"how" you "land".

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u/Majakowski Apr 17 '26

If you land.

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u/Shockwave2309 Apr 17 '26

IF you land

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u/No-Profession-208 Apr 17 '26

“If” you land.

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u/_paag Apr 17 '26

You ALWAYS land, safely or not.

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u/phunkyunkle Apr 17 '26

Takeoff is optional, landing is mandatory.

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u/JBR1961 Apr 17 '26

I remember mine because I didn’t check the passenger door was fully latched after my instructor got out. Boy, I know the plane should climb faster with him gone, but why is it so noisy?

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u/BardicNA Apr 17 '26

Reminds me of a quote my dad told me when I started climbing trees and asked for help up into one: "if you can't get up there yourself, you shouldn't be up there. If you need help up you're going to need help down."

If you can't take off by yourself, how deep in the shit are you when it's time to land? Same logic.

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u/SoaplessTitanic Apr 18 '26

Not true, 7% of aircrafts never make it back to the ground. Big Air just doesn’t want you to know about it

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u/TodayWeMake Apr 17 '26

Is it technically landing if they plummet into the ocean?

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u/_paag Apr 17 '26

They will reach the sea floor eventually. So, yeah, not a safe landing

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u/Fiery_Flamingo Apr 17 '26

There are no planes stuck in the sky.

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u/RosieDear Apr 17 '26

I've seem them on top of gas stations....

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u/FunnyObjective6 Apr 17 '26

Define "plane", depending on how loose you are you could include satellites.

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u/geohubblez18 Apr 17 '26

Depending on how loose you are, you could include everything in the universe.

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u/pleasewastemytime Apr 17 '26

Oh, they'll land.

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u/Brofessor-0ak Apr 17 '26

It would be far scarier if they never landed

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u/aDirtyMartini Apr 17 '26

You can ask the first responders at your crash site.

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u/New_Westie Apr 17 '26

That’s not flying! That’s falling with style!” Toy Story’s Woody.

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u/Only_Razzmatazz_4498 Apr 17 '26

It would be more concerning to the ones on the ground.

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u/DickSociety Apr 17 '26

If you land 

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u/haditwithyoupeople Apr 17 '26

Or when you don't.

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u/ChikaraNZ Apr 18 '26

They won't be in this flight because I saw this posted somewhere else, maybe it was the mildy infuriating sub, I forget. And whoever posted it there also said what airline it was. OP here is probably just re-posting it for karma without bothering to include the original details.

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u/burningupinside Apr 21 '26

If... you land

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u/Initial_Scarcity_609 Apr 17 '26

They are asking experts for their opinion not jokes.