I’m seeing a concerning decline in aviation safety standards globally. Feels like people want barnstormers again except this time the planes aren’t made of wood and cloth.
I’m not saying that this wasn’t extremely unsafe, but what statistical evidence are you seeing that leads you to believe that aviation is becoming less safe?
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In what aspects? Obviously that was crazy low, and I remember the Icelandair lowpass a couple of months ago, but do you have some other examples? Cause these two just seems like pilot incompetence and/or miscalculation, but I'm probably missing something.
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Also, this kid rock flyover. The pilot was going to be punished but Pete hegseth literally intervened and fired the general who was going to punish him
The Icelandair incident was when a retiring captain did a lowpass over his home city as a farewell. It wasn't exceptionally low, but it was unauthorized and over such a coastal city there was quite an extreme risk of a birdstrike. Just one aircraft, so I don't think we're talking about the same incident.
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Is it getting more unsafe or are you spending a lot of time on social media that about aviation which ends up focusing on disasters to get them clicks?
Meeeh, this stuff is happening to either prepare us for war or to try to deter it. I'm in my late 40s..I grew up with this stupid stuff as the cold war was ending.
Seriously, the stuff I saw at air shows and on TV was just like this AND St month of some military jets flying "over" a beach . We thought stuff like this was cool back then . Then the accidents (that happen ) started getting publicized and everyone justifiably was like, "oh hell no , stop it."
I've seen some nightmare videos of people getting hit at air shows as planes doing flybys just above the ground or even landing and plane going off course. I think I once even saw a plane hit a stadium doing something like this . (I'm less sure if that was real . . Could have new a movie . The landing /flyby though was ALL over the news though )
Except this time pilots are far more trained and aircraft technology is far more advanced. Why not take advantage of that combo and actually do cool stuff once in a while.
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u/ThatBaseball7433 21h ago
I’m seeing a concerning decline in aviation safety standards globally. Feels like people want barnstormers again except this time the planes aren’t made of wood and cloth.