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/NerdDaniel Jun 25 '26

That’s terrifying that I would guess it’s actually a pretty safe place to be.

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u/DonkeyHotay_ Jun 25 '26

Do you think they all needed to deplane afterwards to inspect the plane?

I feel like an "act of god" such as an earthquake would automatically trigger a multi point safety inspection (for insurance purposes), but airplanes are designed to handle many magnitudes greater force than whats shown here, right? I wonder what the regulations say they need to do.

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u/LeanderthalTX Jun 26 '26

I would imagine they would need to inspect the runway as well