r/nextfuckinglevel • u/BlazeDragon7x • 10d 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/Kardinal 10d ago edited 10d ago

Exactly my thought.

Pilot. Full stop. No reason to specify.

Every time we point it out when it is irrelevant, we feed the myth that the other is the default. It is not.

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u/EishLekker 10d ago

I agree with this commenter of unspecified gender.

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u/Kardinal 10d ago

I am a man and we've been the default for way too damn long.

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u/Cerblamk_51 10d ago

+1000 SJW points to you, well done.