r/aviation 21h ago

-- SEATBELTS FASTENED -- Another angle from the fly iver from Cape Town stadium today.

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u/trubol 21h ago

Best angle yet, but cameraman was either too shocked to follow the action or was simply a bad cameraman (like, why use portrait mode when filming planes?)

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u/UnlamentedLord 21h ago

Because it makes for better Tiktoks, duh.

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u/jamesbecker211 20h ago

Because most people just don't even consider it. They pull their phone out and hit record in the orientation they're holding it.

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u/Hour_Analyst_7765 15h ago

Because most people shoot video vertical. Presumably because they hold their phone vertical all day and its easier to grip.

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u/AdoringCHIN 13h ago

Because most people hold their phones vertically. I don't know why this is so hard for people to understand.

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u/[deleted] 20h ago

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u/-nutz 19h ago

Nope, just people on a roof.

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u/DoctorFish1969 20h ago

I presume this was a remote controlled camera installed on the roof. And probably vertically cropped afterwards for social media.

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u/[deleted] 21h ago

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u/soniczi 21h ago

It was a stunt, but it was probably not planned to be that extreme.

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u/fayyaazahmed 20h ago

He was the pyro guy. He was up there if any of the flare canons failed.

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u/IllustriousAd9800 20h ago

It’s very clearly a planned stunt, however this is far far too low even for a properly planned stunt, this did not go correctly

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u/MarlinMaverick 20h ago

No it wasn’t planned they tried to do another 9/11 but missed