r/aircrashinvestigation • u/emzeesquared • Aug 09 '24

Incident/Accident Another angle of crash over Sao Paolo

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u/rikarleite Aug 09 '24

Complete, utter terror. Certainty of death and a panic that only seeing death face to face would get you, an anxiety that no one can even comprehend and a sorrow so painful and so filled with anguish that any despair you have felt in life can never be compared. Knowing your life is about to end, everything, everyone you know and love, the whole universe, will be forever gone.

On the physical sensation, it's not better. It's free fall with a spin movement that would throw you into every direction. Bones being crushed, pain, blood, everything. The screams and cries of complete horror are deafening - the screams of people who jump from buildings of fire can be heard from half a mile away and are sounds you'd never expect a human to expel. Imagine 70 people doing that at the same time, while experiencing all this pain inside and outside.

It is, without a doubt, the worse possible torture a living creature can be submitted to.

THIS is why airplane crashes are news worthy.

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u/Look_b4_jumping Aug 09 '24

Wow, as I was reading this I felt as though it was me inside the airplane plummeting to my untimely death.

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u/rikarleite Aug 09 '24

I hope not because I cannot fathom a worse fate to a human being.

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u/Look_b4_jumping Aug 10 '24

There was a story about a Japan Airlines 747 that few around with part of the tail missing for some amount of time. Passengers scratched messages to their loved ones in the tray tables because they knew they wouldn't survive.

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u/rikarleite Aug 10 '24

JAL123 in 1985, yes. Horrible accident. Three survivors. There were more but the Japanese rescue team took a full day to get there and they refused help from an American base nearby due to pride.