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Edit: Looks like tracking has been lost around 900ft. Could be an indication of a crash or being downed. Edit: Edit: Aircraft crashed, pilot is alive and in police custody.
Imagine if the FAA allowed treatment of mental disorders in pilots instead of forcing them to lie about it and pretend every is okay
Listen, as the guy responsible in case one of the pilots fucks up majorly, all my documentation says he was entirely healthy and this was a freak accident. We'd have barred him from his job instantly if we'd caught any whiff of him having mental disorders.
The FAA's not happy until you're not happy. An organization of miserable bureaucrats.
But hey, you might get an exemption if you grovel hard enough for a year or two, because the only way to reach them is by mail and even a one word answer will have to be mailed back to you after being typewritten (I kid you the fuck not, you can literally see the textured fabric of the ribbon on the paper). Back and forth and back and forth until the end of time!
I literally did a version of this. I'm glad we're all on the same monkey tv brain
Someone with access to DALL-E, please feed it the prompt "Southern 9/11" and see what it generates. Is it this or something even better?
A second plane has just flown into the Cawker City ball of twine.
Ok, you can open one present on 9/11 eve, but you can't do one a week before!
some guy did a prop plane crash into some IRS building years ago, the most memorable thing was from his manifesto, in which he highlighted that his senior neighbour was so poor that she was reduced to eating cat food.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Austin_suicide_attack
now they're targeting walmarts lol
I'm from Austin. I was in I think 6th grade when this happened. I remember some kid getting in trouble for making some 9/11 joke.
This feels more like a return to form of pre-9/11 hijackings. Which were pretty farcical a lot of the time.
Earlier this week the capitol of Mississippi lost access to water and now this? I honestly can't imagine the absolute :wtf-am-i-reading: reaction from someone reading the newspaper in China or some other civilized country right now
Best case scenario is that he lands safely. The more likely scenario is that Biden makes the call, the F-35s get called in and take it out away from people.
By my very rough napkin math, he's probably got at least a few more hours of fuel left assuming the tanks were full when he stole it.
They're supposedly talking to him so I imagine the options are:
- Guide him to a safe landing at a small airport.
- Let him fly around, run out of gas & crash. (If he's away from people)
- Let him fly around away from people, hope for option 2 but blow him out the sky if he heads back towards a population.
I mean, what can they do? Shoot him down and hope he crashes in a field? That'll kill the flyer though, so that's iffy, and there is not guarantee he'll crash in an area with no people. I guess the dilemma is trying to minimize causalities from the plane being used as a weapon. But hey, I'm not a plane hijacking/potential kamikaze mission expert, I don't know what I'm talking about at all.
The commercial jets around him are tens of thousands of feet above him and also much faster than a king air, so that isn't a danger. He'll almost certainly crash into the ground, it's just a matter of where and whether he attempts to take people with him.
"One called and said 'Oh my God, do we need to cancel mother's funeral?'" Holland said. "I just told them, 'No, life's going to go on.'"
Phrasing!!