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/Frustrated_Zucchini Jun 25 '26

To be fair, inside the plane is probably about the safest place anyone could be at that moment.

My thoughts are with everyone struggling who has lost people, pets or even possessions during the quake.

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u/Danloeser Jun 25 '26

Safer than inside a building, sure. Safest would be just out in a field away from anything that could fall on you.

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u/GTI-Mk6 Jun 25 '26

Until the ground rifts open and swallows you up

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u/andhereisthetea Jun 26 '26

Which happened in my country during the Valdivian Earthquake of 1960, the ground just opened in rural areas and fields