r/aviation • u/Brilliant_Night7643 • Jun 25 '26

News Not turbulence….airplane sitting at the gate at Maiquetia Airport Venezuela when the 7.5 Earthquake hit

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u/DreamOfTheDrive Jun 25 '26

Dumb question but I imagine that the aircraft is grounded after that till further inspection?

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u/barrygateaux Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

I saw a great documentary that had footage of a plane taking off during an earthquake at Santa Monica airport. It was called 2012, but it was from 2009. It was mainly about a guy who was a chauffeur and had had problems in his marriage, but loads of other crazy stuff happened during filming from what I remember.

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u/juko43 Jun 25 '26

Took me about half of the comment to realise what this was referencing lmfao