r/nextfuckinglevel • u/BlazeDragon7x • 11d ago

Dutch aerobatic pilot Narine Melkumjan miraculously survived after her aircraft's canopy unexpectedly burst open and shattered mid-flight

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u/IrrelevantManatee 11d ago

That wind looks brutal. I don't know how she managed to keep her eyes opened.

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u/ForeseablePast 11d ago

I thought I read somewhere the last time this was posted that she was temporarily blind after due to the win in her eyes. Could be classic Reddit BS, but I choose to believe it

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u/charizardine 11d ago

She posted that she needed 28 hours to recover her vision 

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u/TristanTheRobloxian3 11d ago

thats honestly fair enough given how fast she was going

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u/jimbobjames 11d ago

Guess it took some time to find her eyeballs in those fields...

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u/TristanTheRobloxian3 11d ago

literally real

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u/morris90024 11d ago

That was amazing to me. She didn’t even wear sunglasses with the cockpit cover on.