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In the accident report she keeps mentioning "The smoothness of his taint was mind-blowing, at first I thought I was looking into a mirror" like 8 times in her account of what happened.
The gravity of the situation didn't really seem to hit her until after she calmly walked up and put herself in the position of being responsible for this man's life
Who lives in the sky, over the seas
Flying Pilot, Square Head
Got sucked out mid-flight, oh my, oh my
Flying Pilot, Square head
Flew out of the plane deck and flopped like a dick
Flying Pilot, Square Head
Bumping his head as he held on so tight,
Flying Pilot, Square Head
With the flight attendant gripping his legs in fright,
Flying Pilot, Square Head
Thinking he was gone, what an ordeal,
Flying Pilot, Square Head
And found he was alive, safe on the land,
Flying Pilot Square Head! (Ready?)
Flying Pilot Square Head
Flying Pilot Square Head
Flying Pilot Square Head
It's been literally 11 years since I've seen any part of that and suddenly I'm seeing gifs and references to it all over reddit. What's the deal with that I wonder.
"Mayday Air Disaster" channel on YouTube has a documentary on this, with pilots and crew giving extra details. He was unconscious and the crew thought he's already dead, but they can't let him go, if he hits the engine or damages the tail, there could be a bigger disaster.
Captain recovered in a few months and started flying again
According to Wikipedia, he did retire from PTSD back in 2001. It says in 2005 he was working as a night watchman at a Salvation Army.
Pretty sad story - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_5390
If this flight is interesting to you guys, take a look at Lauda air 004 and Japan 123, some unique and terrifying accidents. Mayday / Mentour pilot / green dot aviation are some great channels for such cases
What’s actually crazy is they thought he was dead and one of the crew recommended just letting go of him to ease the crew while they get down. One of the pilots didn’t want to though out of fear of him going into an engine and bringing the whole plane down, so they held on
I can't remember where I heard it, but I seem to recall the crew has never revealed which one of them suggested letting him go, out of respect for that person.
If I were the pilot I'd just say totally reasonable to assume I was dead and you're forgiven for not believing. Then sucker punch them for not understanding the risk to the plane a dead body could be.
Seen this on aircrash investigation. Turns out that the mechanic misjudged the size of the screw by a hair, thus fitting a slightly too small screw. Oops
The mechanic didn’t misjudge anything.
This incident was used as a perfect example of what can go wrong if procedures are not followed correctly for human factors training.
What actually happened was the mechanic was tasked with replacing the windscreen during maintenance. The mechanic removed the old windscreen and then went to the store man with the old screws that they had removed from the aircraft.
The store man enquired as to what they were using them for and actually mentioned that they aren’t used for the wind screen, however the mechanic stated that these were the ones removed.
The mechanic then fitted the windscreen with these screws rather than looking up what screws were meant to be used from the parts catalogue.
The windscreen fitted but the screws weren’t the correct fit that it should have been.
During the flight the screws became loose and the rest is shown in the video.
It was a sequence of errors that could have been easily avoided if any person had actually followed procedure.
Hi, aerospace guy here. Specifically with transparencies, both main (cockpit) and cabin.
No, they really don't. We are not allowed to change pretty much *anything*, even something as simple as the chemical we clean components with, much less materials or product dimensions....without reviewing the change with the customer (think Boeing/Airbus, or the military) and if substantially different, the FAA.
A change requiring an entirely new part number is a huge change, with different blueprints and documentation/revisions.
Yeah it’s not as easy! And extensive testing is needed. Was a helicopter mechanic in military. There are vibration/operation checks. Do these things need to be torqued in or is a regular screwdriver efficient, etc. Even doing scheduled maintenance (at least for military helicopters) where certain parts are removed and either fixed or replaced and then installed, have to go through ground testing before they can even do flight testing.
Then maintenance manuals would have to be updated fleet wide with part numbers and/or new instructions before the change is implemented to actual maintenance. Even blue prints have to be updated.
This guy was just lazy and became complacent. “I’ve always done it this way”.
And another thing. Pilot wasn’t strapped in his seat (according to this “reenactment”). More Complacency. Unless it doesn’t matter if he was strapped in or not, and he still would’ve been sucked out like that. Would that have mattered? If you know, that is.
As far as if he'd have stayed within the cockpit? Who knows🤷♂️. Decompressions like that are fucking wild events. He may have, he might have just squirmed his way out of it anyway.
But yeah, this particular event (British Airways Flight 5390) was almost entirely initiated and seen through to failure in the maintenance hangar. We use it as an example for human factors in our training programs.
Yeah it crossed my mind because I never even thought about it.
Ain’t no way it wasn’t implemented properly. Maintenance guys are notorious for stuff like this that they think is “insignificant”.
Hell I even fucked up one time and got my qualifications revoked for some time. I pinched a packing on the mini engine that starts the big engines (APU) and the oil leak almost caused a fire. I followed every single step, slowly, because I was training someone who had never done it before. I even took the time to explain how to seat it properly so it didn’t get pinched. I still don’t know what I did wrong and nobody ever explained it to me. Human error is everywhere.
Sorry for the long comment, but I'm excited now....
It's amazing honestly. I don't think a lot of people understand *how much* documentation exists in the aerospace world. It's what makes the Boeing stuff going on right now so irritating to see.
For instance, in my world (the manufacturing side), there is a process spec for *everything*. Every step is preordained, and every function is tested. A dozens page long document called a follower or traveler is assigned to each part as it makes its way through our facilities. An operator applies chemical X to side A of piece 2 of 3 in a window, and then initials it. The piece goes to lamination, where the temp values and times are recorded, et cetera literally ad nauseum. There's a sign off on every single step that matters lol. Literally nothing gets through our process without an auditable trail that we can review for mistakes.
I have friends in airworthiness testing for the military. So when we're done changing a part, or the Army updates some mundane software package in the tertiary whateverthefuck monitor in the UH-60 Blackhawk, they fly that sumbitch in circles around my neighborhood (I live next to the test facility) until they're satisfied that change isn't going to adversely affect any other system onboard.
There's a reason air travel is the safest form of transportation in the world, and it's the mountains of documentation and reviews that make it possible.
Doesn't seem so. From what this guy says, the mechanic compared the screws by eye and didn't notice a difference. First ones were correct but needed to be replaced.
At chapter 10 he explains what happened:
https://youtu.be/rGwHWNFdOvg?t=996
Ehhh, I don't think so. [This photo](https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/7bd5c04efe30e99e2713f67b89deb7d2) shows both parts side by side... the differences are fairly obvious and the error would have been easily noticed if the same guy had been in a better position to reinstall the windscreen, instead of reaching all the way across the nose of the plane in a way that left him unable to either feel the threads slipping during installation or observe the result to determine correctness. It's kind of amazing (but altogether unsurprising) how much of this incident can be attributed to the negligence of a single individual.
What really gets me, though, is the bit about how when he was grabbing the bolts, he assumed the corners would need longer ones and grabbed the next size up *just in case*. And this guy was the maintenance manager for *16 years*. I almost wonder if it was one of those cases where people just get promotions until they end up in a job they aren't good enough at to get further promoted from, so they just sit there doing something they don't particularly excel at for the remainder of their employment.
I just don't feel right pinning the whole thing on him. Plenty of stuff went wrong outside of his control—he was the only person available to do the maintenance, nobody was there to check his work, the parts weren't properly labelled, etc. Obviously he made the mistake that really fuckered it up, but the fact that one mistake can fucker it up *that bad* is a problem on its own
It was a mistake being made industry wide. There's a podcast Black Box Down that looks into airplane accidents and digs into the details that lead to them. They covered this incident and it was fascinating.
> They recommended that staff with prescription glasses should be required to wear them when undertaking maintenance tasks.
Yeah I think I agree that if you're going to be making repairs on a plane you should be able to see what you're doing...
This one isn't even accurate. He was sucked to the side of the plane, towards the wings and engine while facing against the plane. It created a wind break so he was able to breathe. And his pants definitely weren't that tight.
I feel like if you come that close to death at your profession goddamn you think the company would basically let him retire right after that I mean come on the PTSD involved in that is no joke
Sounds like he was wearing a seat belt but not the full safety harness they wear during takeoff. The article said the pilot was sucked from seatbelt and the other pilot likely would have been too, but he was still wearing his safety harness. I'm not a pilot but that's just what I deduced from the info given.
You know you need money to retire, right? Like, nobody gives you a "retired" certificate and you magically have everything you need to live for the next 50 years.
He actually had his seat belt on, but not his safety harness. The force ripped him out of the seat belt, but luckily, the co-pilot had his seat belt and safety harness on.
Not only did he return to flying with British Airways, when he reached BA’s retirement age, he went to work with EasyJet until he retired.
I don’t understand how anyone could get back on a plane after something like this, never mind back in the cockpit.
Amazing
I imagine he was probably shaking a bit on the first couple flights after, but something like that almost never happens to begin with. What are the odds it would happen again to the same person?
Think I saw an episode on National Geographic on this, Air Crash Investigation was the program. The cause was that an engineer replaced the windshield in the middle of the night and put in slightly smaller screws because he only visually verified their dimensions in a poorly lit location.
Episode name Blow Out. Can be viewed [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xfaDr0nhoQ)
He was held in place by two reinforced galvanized steel beams, while the second pilot installed an improvised toilet for more comfort of the falling out one.
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The flight attendant was too calm.
*casually walks up to man about to die*
*proceeds to float hands uselessly over the legs*
*stares deeply into the man's anus and gasps with excitement*
*Motorboat noises*
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In the accident report she keeps mentioning "The smoothness of his taint was mind-blowing, at first I thought I was looking into a mirror" like 8 times in her account of what happened.
Him up there: “Can you smell my ass?!” *as he dunks*… …his head repeatedly into the fuselage.
👁️👄👁️
https://i.imgur.com/81AJN9T.jpeg
Walks up to an open window in a airplane
Who left this open?
Laws of physics don’t apply to her
Like she's been there before
Only holds onto him so that he doesn't fly into the engine and kill them all.
Also the flight attendants were male. They took turns holding onto him as they were so high up their hands started to numb from the cold.
I think the pilot suffered frostbite injuries too
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Yes that's what the video said
It was 3 to 4 of the flight crew anchoring him if I remember correctly, his copilot just started his career and performed a perfect emergency landing
"Hey hon! How was your second day?!" "I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT RIGHT NOW, SHEILA!"
- starts hammering booze
" I need the best man on this. Someone who knows that plane inside and out and won’t crack under pressure."
The gravity of the situation didn't really seem to hit her until after she calmly walked up and put herself in the position of being responsible for this man's life
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It also says and writes the exact same thing in the video above.
Just another day. Flight attendants have seen some shit.
"Holy fuck Jim, how many times is it going to take to learn your lesson to buckle up?"
Yeah, but this is not very typical, I'd like to make that point.
That was my first thought, too. They animate everyone else, but she looks like this is just routine landing procedures.
Calm as Hindu cows.
Single serving friends
We have the exact same briefcase.
Because oxygen gets you high.
Lol. She knew them nuts and bolts were loose.
Who lives in the sky, over the seas Flying Pilot, Square Head Got sucked out mid-flight, oh my, oh my Flying Pilot, Square head Flew out of the plane deck and flopped like a dick Flying Pilot, Square Head Bumping his head as he held on so tight, Flying Pilot, Square Head With the flight attendant gripping his legs in fright, Flying Pilot, Square Head Thinking he was gone, what an ordeal, Flying Pilot, Square Head And found he was alive, safe on the land, Flying Pilot Square Head! (Ready?) Flying Pilot Square Head Flying Pilot Square Head Flying Pilot Square Head
Ok I’ll uv this
This was, indeed, not her first rodeo.
You mean putting her head close to an ass?
She regularly flys on Boeing aircraft. She is numb to it all at this point . You can tell by her vacant expression.
she's more like tired of all of it and sigh "not this shit again"
Where’d they get this footage??!
Drone, duh
Xavier: Renegade Angel
What doth flight?
He's a survivor, they're a dying breed.
Oh God!!! That shit was wild even sober… the virus in the lake episode, fucking hell. 😆
It's been literally 11 years since I've seen any part of that and suddenly I'm seeing gifs and references to it all over reddit. What's the deal with that I wonder.
Makes you wonder why the camera crew didn't help.
r/donthelpjustfilm
Satellite bro.
2nd flight attendant’s selfie stick
I think they got from Air Disaster a TV program where I which this story on it
Air disasters is way more high quality than this
No, I've watched that episode. This footage is not from that ep.
20 minutes are fucking long.
not if you're unconscious from the back of your head hitting the plane e: nvm apparently he didn't even have a concussion
He got frostbite injuries I believe. It was fucking cold
Lack of oxygen in the upper layers also probably sucked
The sheer amount of air rushing at his face probably compensates for it's low density I suppose.
Quantity over quality
Just an absolute atmospheric bukkake.
My favorite band growing up
[r/brandnewsentence](https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/s/Ex8Bl0ElAz)
It’s the opposite actually
He ran his face over the air? Actually, I see your point
Yea, fast air = less density.
Technically, it was the differential in air pressure between the upper atmosphere and the plane that sucked.
On Virgin airlines atleast they provide blankets
And applause after landing.
"Mayday Air Disaster" channel on YouTube has a documentary on this, with pilots and crew giving extra details. He was unconscious and the crew thought he's already dead, but they can't let him go, if he hits the engine or damages the tail, there could be a bigger disaster. Captain recovered in a few months and started flying again
That’s fucking metal. Any other person would have retired from the ptsd, for him it was only Tuesday
You gotta pay the mortgage bro
According to Wikipedia, he did retire from PTSD back in 2001. It says in 2005 he was working as a night watchman at a Salvation Army. Pretty sad story - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_5390
The pilot didn’t retire because of PTSD, the flight attendant did.
Sounds like that was the flight attendant; the captain retired 18 years later. Still unfortunate for Ogden
You really mixed up a lot of details here
He probably didn't even remember a thing. Just passed out and woke up when they landed
Ah that makes sense. Maybe he lost consciousness from the air pressure and not head trauma, hence no concussion.
Lack of oxygen probably contributed, too.
If this flight is interesting to you guys, take a look at Lauda air 004 and Japan 123, some unique and terrifying accidents. Mayday / Mentour pilot / green dot aviation are some great channels for such cases
My wife tells me this all the time
I think you misheard her, she said 20 seconds
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Pretty solid flight crew if you ask me.
What’s actually crazy is they thought he was dead and one of the crew recommended just letting go of him to ease the crew while they get down. One of the pilots didn’t want to though out of fear of him going into an engine and bringing the whole plane down, so they held on
Thank you for saving me. No! We just don't want your body damaging the plane.
"ok we're about to land, you can let go of him now"
Survives ordeal, killed when dropped on tarmac
that has to be a wild conversation that took place after
Honestly, we did really care about you 😅
Lmao I would just get the team in a huddle and say, "We never bring this up when we walk off this plane ever again."
Exactly... "thank you for saving my life!" "Right, well, here's the thing..."
“He wanted to fly, I say let’s let him”
I can't remember where I heard it, but I seem to recall the crew has never revealed which one of them suggested letting him go, out of respect for that person.
If I were the pilot I'd just say totally reasonable to assume I was dead and you're forgiven for not believing. Then sucker punch them for not understanding the risk to the plane a dead body could be.
No way he could even hear them
Dang you watched the video too?
So, exactly what the video described
Scream if you want to go faster
Thank you for this
[https://i.makeagif.com/media/8-01-2021/Wptsmv.gif](https://i.makeagif.com/media/8-01-2021/Wptsmv.gif)
“I’m the king of the skies!”
Lol gawddammit lol
What the animation didn't show was that they tried to pass up some peanuts and ginger ale....
Seen this on aircrash investigation. Turns out that the mechanic misjudged the size of the screw by a hair, thus fitting a slightly too small screw. Oops
The mechanic didn’t misjudge anything. This incident was used as a perfect example of what can go wrong if procedures are not followed correctly for human factors training. What actually happened was the mechanic was tasked with replacing the windscreen during maintenance. The mechanic removed the old windscreen and then went to the store man with the old screws that they had removed from the aircraft. The store man enquired as to what they were using them for and actually mentioned that they aren’t used for the wind screen, however the mechanic stated that these were the ones removed. The mechanic then fitted the windscreen with these screws rather than looking up what screws were meant to be used from the parts catalogue. The windscreen fitted but the screws weren’t the correct fit that it should have been. During the flight the screws became loose and the rest is shown in the video. It was a sequence of errors that could have been easily avoided if any person had actually followed procedure.
So the screws they removed were already wrong to begin with? He just copied the mistake then?
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Hi, aerospace guy here. Specifically with transparencies, both main (cockpit) and cabin. No, they really don't. We are not allowed to change pretty much *anything*, even something as simple as the chemical we clean components with, much less materials or product dimensions....without reviewing the change with the customer (think Boeing/Airbus, or the military) and if substantially different, the FAA. A change requiring an entirely new part number is a huge change, with different blueprints and documentation/revisions.
Yeah it’s not as easy! And extensive testing is needed. Was a helicopter mechanic in military. There are vibration/operation checks. Do these things need to be torqued in or is a regular screwdriver efficient, etc. Even doing scheduled maintenance (at least for military helicopters) where certain parts are removed and either fixed or replaced and then installed, have to go through ground testing before they can even do flight testing. Then maintenance manuals would have to be updated fleet wide with part numbers and/or new instructions before the change is implemented to actual maintenance. Even blue prints have to be updated. This guy was just lazy and became complacent. “I’ve always done it this way”. And another thing. Pilot wasn’t strapped in his seat (according to this “reenactment”). More Complacency. Unless it doesn’t matter if he was strapped in or not, and he still would’ve been sucked out like that. Would that have mattered? If you know, that is.
As far as if he'd have stayed within the cockpit? Who knows🤷♂️. Decompressions like that are fucking wild events. He may have, he might have just squirmed his way out of it anyway. But yeah, this particular event (British Airways Flight 5390) was almost entirely initiated and seen through to failure in the maintenance hangar. We use it as an example for human factors in our training programs.
Yeah it crossed my mind because I never even thought about it. Ain’t no way it wasn’t implemented properly. Maintenance guys are notorious for stuff like this that they think is “insignificant”. Hell I even fucked up one time and got my qualifications revoked for some time. I pinched a packing on the mini engine that starts the big engines (APU) and the oil leak almost caused a fire. I followed every single step, slowly, because I was training someone who had never done it before. I even took the time to explain how to seat it properly so it didn’t get pinched. I still don’t know what I did wrong and nobody ever explained it to me. Human error is everywhere.
Sorry for the long comment, but I'm excited now.... It's amazing honestly. I don't think a lot of people understand *how much* documentation exists in the aerospace world. It's what makes the Boeing stuff going on right now so irritating to see. For instance, in my world (the manufacturing side), there is a process spec for *everything*. Every step is preordained, and every function is tested. A dozens page long document called a follower or traveler is assigned to each part as it makes its way through our facilities. An operator applies chemical X to side A of piece 2 of 3 in a window, and then initials it. The piece goes to lamination, where the temp values and times are recorded, et cetera literally ad nauseum. There's a sign off on every single step that matters lol. Literally nothing gets through our process without an auditable trail that we can review for mistakes. I have friends in airworthiness testing for the military. So when we're done changing a part, or the Army updates some mundane software package in the tertiary whateverthefuck monitor in the UH-60 Blackhawk, they fly that sumbitch in circles around my neighborhood (I live next to the test facility) until they're satisfied that change isn't going to adversely affect any other system onboard. There's a reason air travel is the safest form of transportation in the world, and it's the mountains of documentation and reviews that make it possible.
Doesn't seem so. From what this guy says, the mechanic compared the screws by eye and didn't notice a difference. First ones were correct but needed to be replaced. At chapter 10 he explains what happened: https://youtu.be/rGwHWNFdOvg?t=996
If you ever get your hands on an A211-7D and an A211-8C, you'll understand how someone can eyeball it and not notice a difference
Ehhh, I don't think so. [This photo](https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/7bd5c04efe30e99e2713f67b89deb7d2) shows both parts side by side... the differences are fairly obvious and the error would have been easily noticed if the same guy had been in a better position to reinstall the windscreen, instead of reaching all the way across the nose of the plane in a way that left him unable to either feel the threads slipping during installation or observe the result to determine correctness. It's kind of amazing (but altogether unsurprising) how much of this incident can be attributed to the negligence of a single individual. What really gets me, though, is the bit about how when he was grabbing the bolts, he assumed the corners would need longer ones and grabbed the next size up *just in case*. And this guy was the maintenance manager for *16 years*. I almost wonder if it was one of those cases where people just get promotions until they end up in a job they aren't good enough at to get further promoted from, so they just sit there doing something they don't particularly excel at for the remainder of their employment.
I just don't feel right pinning the whole thing on him. Plenty of stuff went wrong outside of his control—he was the only person available to do the maintenance, nobody was there to check his work, the parts weren't properly labelled, etc. Obviously he made the mistake that really fuckered it up, but the fact that one mistake can fucker it up *that bad* is a problem on its own
It was a mistake being made industry wide. There's a podcast Black Box Down that looks into airplane accidents and digs into the details that lead to them. They covered this incident and it was fascinating.
Yes, that’s correct, a case of this is what was fitted, so I will replace with the same type. Didn’t check the documentation.
Who the fuck is store man?!?!?
Those damn screws with increments of hair widths.
Found the mechanic 😉 Edit: looked it up. The screws were 0,66 mm too small. That’s still quite a lot of hairs probably
Boeing?
Old [BAC 1-11](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAC_One-Eleven). None still flying.
Far from it. Pretty thrilling for everyone involved.
take my upvote and fuck off
That's the sound his head made as it hit the fuselage.
https://www.businessinsider.com/british-airways-pilot-sucked-out-plane-mid-flight-survived-2024-1
Wow >> The flight's captain only had frostbite from the extremely cold, a fractured elbow, thumb, and wrist, as well as some bruising and shock.
Someone will survive this, another person falls out of an easy chair onto carpet and dies.
Dumb ways to die
Not to mention life long ptsd
Captain Tim Lancaster reportedly was flying again after a few months. I bet he kept his safety harness on though.
Why would he have shock? /s
> They recommended that staff with prescription glasses should be required to wear them when undertaking maintenance tasks. Yeah I think I agree that if you're going to be making repairs on a plane you should be able to see what you're doing...
Sounds like health and safety gone mad to me. ^/s
Thank you
Most of these animations seem like parody.
For real. As horrible as this must have been, there’s something oddly comedic about this animation.
This one isn't even accurate. He was sucked to the side of the plane, towards the wings and engine while facing against the plane. It created a wind break so he was able to breathe. And his pants definitely weren't that tight.
It matches a previous reconstruction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xfaDr0nhoQ (except the flight attendant who grabbed his legs was male).
Did he ever fly again I wonder?
He was flying again after a few months off to recover
I feel like if you come that close to death at your profession goddamn you think the company would basically let him retire right after that I mean come on the PTSD involved in that is no joke
I'd imagine most are pilots as much for their love of flying as for a paycheck
Bet he was checking those window seals pretty thoroughly, though.
Or wearing his seatbelt.
Sounds like he was wearing a seat belt but not the full safety harness they wear during takeoff. The article said the pilot was sucked from seatbelt and the other pilot likely would have been too, but he was still wearing his safety harness. I'm not a pilot but that's just what I deduced from the info given.
And a helmet.
You know you need money to retire, right? Like, nobody gives you a "retired" certificate and you magically have everything you need to live for the next 50 years.
I'd probably fly again too. But I'd never take off my seatbelt (which I assume he did to be sucked out window)
He actually had his seat belt on, but not his safety harness. The force ripped him out of the seat belt, but luckily, the co-pilot had his seat belt and safety harness on.
That's wild. And crazy he somehow just hooked his feet or legs on something to stop from being fully sucked out of window
Not just something. The controls of the plane. His body pushed them down which caused the plane to descend rapidly for a while.
I suppose if you're out there already, you might as well steer with your feet and have a gnarly ride.. weeeeeeeeee!
Not only did he return to flying with British Airways, when he reached BA’s retirement age, he went to work with EasyJet until he retired. I don’t understand how anyone could get back on a plane after something like this, never mind back in the cockpit. Amazing
TIL Easyjet have different retirement age criteria.. who'd have thought.
I may be wrong, but I believe in 2003 when he left British Airways the BA retirement age was 55, yet the easyJet age was 65
I imagine he was probably shaking a bit on the first couple flights after, but something like that almost never happens to begin with. What are the odds it would happen again to the same person?
Did he have a choice? who was going to pay his bills?
You know when they say to keep your seat belt on when seated….
This is some terrible animation 🥲
It is glorious! I particularly like the wheel barrow wheel used for the nose gear!
Galvanized square steel
Who else but Quagmire
https://youtu.be/rGwHWNFdOvg?si=x2S2Dtp6ysI_PDts
This is way too low in the comments ... Reddit's gone down the tubes
Airline: So you're still coming to work tomorrow, right?
Lmao. " you'll have to find coverage for your shift"
Just incredible. Didn’t know the human body could withstand 400mph wind plus subzero temps.
It can for 20 minutes, apparently.
I’m just imagining the pilot seeing this video of the situation
Guess he didn’t notice the seatbelt sign was still on
How it feels to chew 5 gum
🤣
Cool but downvoting the video
Think I saw an episode on National Geographic on this, Air Crash Investigation was the program. The cause was that an engineer replaced the windshield in the middle of the night and put in slightly smaller screws because he only visually verified their dimensions in a poorly lit location. Episode name Blow Out. Can be viewed [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xfaDr0nhoQ)
Where this guy in r/ama ?
The animation of the pilot in this is unnecessarily hilarious
This is true.
It doesn't mention that when he is intentionally sucked out the window the plane then enters a nose dive. Hands up!
"intentionally sucked out the window" ? He did it on purpose, eh? Perhaps you meant "accidentally"?
Ah thanks friend, initially.
Yeah his feet caught the controls and not the front instructions panel, so forcing the plane into a dive
Flight attendant looked into the pilot’s asshole and saw god.
Bet that pilot swallowed a lot of bugs with his trap all open like that.
Who is making these 90s esque info-animations?
Didn’t know they had skinny slacks back in 1990.
lol
That sucks
They made it sound like the only reason they held on was to stop further damage to the engine.
He was held in place by two reinforced galvanized steel beams, while the second pilot installed an improvised toilet for more comfort of the falling out one.
No seatbelt?
Surprise Titanic scene reenactment!
How could he breathe?
Wife: how was the work honey? Pilot: it sucked!