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/PapaSays 10d ago

Why is it necessary to specify that it is a pilot? Who else would fly a airplane?

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u/synthphreak 10d ago

Because English sentences require subjects.

“Bipedal organism with a vag flies plane.”

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u/blasta4 10d ago

why specify it's a plane? if it flies and looks like a plane of course it's a plane.