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As a pilot, I can tell you that while this confusion may seem unbelievable, I can guarantee that brains are really, really weird. I once mistook for the runway a field that was 90 degrees away from it. A runway I landed over hundreds of times, and the reason is that it was just as green as the other runway, and I was looking frantically at the airspeed indicator due to wind. Fortunately I realised immediately and I felt as if one part of the brain slapped the other in its damn brainface and shook it out of it, then proceeded to align with the correct runway. That event still resonates to this day. Flying is hard, and brains are easily tricked, and you will feel like an idiot afterwards.
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It's wild how the one pilot's decision to say "Where's this guy going? He's on the taxiway" made the difference. That one dude (and ATC) speaking up or not speaking up seemed to make all the difference.
I mean, there will be generations of people to come that won't even know that the only reason they're here is because that pilot noticed something was wrong and spoke up.
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I was actually on Air Canada 759, Seat 22A which was a window seat. I remember at the time wanting to get home badly since before then I was in China on vacation and I hated it, and I hated the fact we had to transfer through Toronto to get back to San Francisco. The whole flight from Toronto to San Francisco wasn't terrible, but I scared a little after flying over a thunderstorm over Minnesota or Wisconsin (I don't remember which one it was). The moment before the near collision I was just waiting for the force of the landing gear tread along the pavement just to remind me that we were actually gonna make it home, but when the plane dove upwards, me and my mom next to me were completely shocked and were all sorts of confused why we didn't just land. The plane still landed with no accidents (thankfully) and I got off the plane wondering what happened. To my surprise, I saw the incident made it onto my local news one morning and I've never really forgot the incident ever since, especially since I was 13 at the time and I never had such a close encounter to death ever. To this day I still have my yellowing and decaying, but still legible Air Canada Flight 759 ticket hanging in a picture frame on my wall, a pretty morbid trophy compared to the other ridiculous things hanging on my wall.
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20:33 A somewhat personal connect I have to the MH17 flight disaster is that I was actually almost on that flight myself. It was connecting flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur my father and I were taking on our way home to Australia. My dad had originally planned for us to take that flight on the Thursday but we decided to stay longer with family until the Friday. The flight we took was the exact same save for the day - same route, same airport, same time, same everything. My ticket even said MH17.
Funnily enough though, due to my already existing flight anxiety as a kid, my dad had frantically blocked me from seeing any news coverage of it not only for the next few days until our other flight from Kuala Lumpur home but at all... Which means I found out when I went to school the next week and one of my friends rushed up to me and told me "OH MY GOD I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD". Bit of a dark way to find out I was very very lucky.
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5:40 that clip is so scary. The airplanes in their entirety, look so much smaller from a distance, but if you actually pay attention, you might be filled with a sudden feeling of dread and fear, and anticipation of the lives of thousands who could have died from such a small mistake.
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@metro3932
1 year ago
"Where's this guy going? He's on the taxiway!" could easily be something said in Flight Sim multiplayer. It's crazy how these two small sentences saved so many people's lives and probably avoided a second Tenerife disaster.
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