I’ve often wondered about this in times past. and this latest occurrence(I-75, 2 dead) piqued my chagrin on the matter .. pilots of small/medium planes- in bother, admittedly – but – bother brought about by their choice to NOT use the road system to go where they’re going .. deciding to put her down on a busy roadway, in emergencies.
I expect there’ll be some blowback along the lines of ‘you don’t know what it (fear of impending death/serious injury) is like until it happens to YOU‘ and similar, but while I actually *have* had some uh-oh moments brought about by voluntary high risk endeavours (skydiving, for example) .. who the fuck has the right to put dozens more at risk, like THEY don’t matter .. to save their own skin?
And if ‘panic’ is offered as another mitigation, then the panicker in question should not have held the job/position in question.
An empty, or practically(1 or 2 sparse, spaced out cars per quarter mile)empty road? – sure – GO for it .. but from what I’m seeing in the footage this guy(or gal) came down on a much busier road, practically on top of a clump of cars … and in doing so risked killing FAR more people on the road, than he was carrying on the plane.
On a good day, the aircraft in question needs a half mile of runway to stop .. one coming down with no engine control as a bare minimum and fuck knows what else useless is a completely unknowable entity with the potential to kill dozens.. sorry pal, .. try a field and best of luck with it.
One of the 2 dead in this case is some poor fucker that was going about their business driving when someone (still alive afterwards) .. risked THEIR(drivers) lives, to save their own..
Fuck that.
(If I were coming down under a double failed(or flapping fucked-up canopy) back in my jumping days, .. and was gaining on someone floating to earth under good canopy …. I had NO right to try and grab the other party, most likely killing us both). Manners would have dictated steer AWAY from them.
Imagine the Sullenberger transcript, slightly different. ..
“Not going to make Teterboro” ..
We’re gonna be on Broadway”
Nominated by: Cunt’emAll



