This happens outside of America, too. There was one here in England a few years ago in which the pilot crashed an old jet fighter directly onto a busy street, killing ten people (not before ejecting himself, though).
Are you moronic? The video clearly shows the Kingcobra colliding with it.
I don't think an official cause has been given by the investigators yet but it looks like the Kingcobra was where it wasn't meant to be and the pilot flew in a way he lost sight of the B-17 which is insanely dangerous
These planes don't have autopilot. Of course it's human error. The P-63 pilot wasn't even looking out to spot where B-17 was in relation to him. He had his head down in the wienerpit with no situational awareness.
If you think the guys flying these planes are former fighter pilots themselves, they're not. They're basic general aviation pilots who are either millionaires and can afford to fly these planes, even though they're not really qualified too, or they're pilots flying the planes on behalf of the millionaire's, who again, aren't really qualified and have no actual evasive stick and rudder experience. These guys know how to take off and fly in straight lines, that's it.
In recent years as actual former fighter pilots have died off who were flying these planes at airshows in in the past, more and more 50 year old boomers who are used to flying Cessnas and Beachcraft have filled in to fly these planes, and they've increasingly have been crashing them at a higher and higher rate.
Unironically it wouldn't. When he flies his P-51 his eyes are out the window attaining full SA like a pilot is supposed.
1 year ago
Anonymous
the P-51 was considerably better visibility than a P-63 too
1 year ago
Anonymous
39/63s dont actually have bad visibility. There are are fighters that had worse.
1 year ago
Anonymous
visibility might be the wrong word but they have a worse blind spot than most over the nose of the plane due to the engine/cannon design plus wienerpit design
1 year ago
Anonymous
They have better over the nose view than most planes. The only obstruction the wienerpits have is the car door and the forward frames. They have better than average rear visibility too. I have books written by Yeager, Bud Anderson, Robin Olds, ect. The biggest complaint about the 39s was its center of gravity, not the wienerpit visibility.
I think people are trying to give the pilot the benefit of the doubt because "something was obstructing his vision." There wasn't anything obstructing his vision, he wasn't qualified to formation fly and should have never been a part of the airshow in the first place. He simply never learned properly to practice SA.
If I was on that plane, it wouldn't have went down like it did. There would not have been a lot of blood in that wienerpit and then me saying, 'OK, we're going to land somewhere safely, don't worry.'
Obviously not confirmed yet but it was likely the pilots fault for flying in a way he lost sight of the B-17
1 year ago
Anonymous
Yeah, any time you bank a small fast plane into a much larger plane that is flying slow and level, it's going to be 100% your fault
1 year ago
Anonymous
the NTSB will cite pilot error as that was 99% chance the cause of it. Unless they caught a snipped of video hinting something wrong with the controls
It would also be near impossible to determine mechanical failure based on the destruction and the fact that planes like that would not have a flight data recorder.
Better than the last B-17 crash where they did a flight with passengers despite one of the engines acting up
1 year ago
Anonymous
Honestly kino death, more dignified than dying of old age, bedridden with soiled diapers
1 year ago
Anonymous
>He flew in that exact B17 during the Korean war
oh man
imagine surviving all those missions in defended airspace, and then you get taken out by a moron in an air show
[...] >"Theo, I'm out of ammunition. I'm going to ram it. Goodbye, I'll see you in Valhalla!"
Honestly kino death, more dignified than dying of old age, bedridden with soiled diapers
>spend your best years flying a reconnaissance retrofitted old ass ww2 plane in some random ass asiatic conflict >70 years later you get back in it one last time >the piece of shit finally takes you down with it
I mean, holy fricking kino
1 year ago
Anonymous
>1951, an 18-year-old B-17 crewman on his first mission: "holy frick I'm gonna die in this thing"
1 year ago
Anonymous
>spends years as a young greenhorn surviving harrowing war confrontations and last minute escapes from migs in his dinky old b-17 >in the last 20 minutes of the movie he
comes home from the war, settles down in utah, becomes an old fricking man ( 87 yrs ) >hear about a local airshow one day with the same plane you used to fly every day over enemy territory >hop in the b-17 for one last ride >half a second before it slams into the ground "you son of a b***h"
Biopic when?
1 year ago
Anonymous
Final Destination: Korea
1 year ago
Anonymous
신사숙녀 여러분, 우리는 그를 잡았습니다
1 year ago
Anonymous
this just keeps getting worse
1 year ago
Anonymous
He’d be pushing 100 if he fought in Korea so this is unlikely
The Eternal Zero
Reminded me of Pearl Harbor in the "friend sacrifices himself in place of another and asks him to take care of his kid in exchange" part
>that double take at 0:23
Legendary.
Imagine having a nice glide and noticing your fricking cat is in the wing but still having the experience to get your ride down to safety.
To think german pilots were doing this on purpose toward the end it crazy i cant even imagine the type of scene it must have been with a whole squadron of these firing tracers at fighters and flak exploding everywhere
Disasters are more fun. >Night flying >Think they've gone through a wormhole or some shit because they're flying for hours over an endless ocean in all directions >Finally bail out with rafts and shit when it's out of fuel >They were actually flying over sand dunes in the North African desert >The plane lands gently with most of their food and water, but isn't discovered for 15 years >Everybody dies in the desert, the last survivor being 320 km/200 mi from the crash and 160 km/99 mi from rescue
This one still fricking scares me even 2 decades after reading about it. Imagine just crashing in the middle of a continent sized sand dune and never ever being found.
Ok, the bombs are the ones they dropped successfully I assume
The swastikas how many nazi fighters they took out
But whate are the starts? friendly fire?
Is find that German jet pilot who ran out of ammo and rammed the last yank bomber after telling his wingman “See you in Valhalla” but that Coffman israelite on Wikipedia probably got his page deleted
>who was in the wrong?
Probably the smaller plane. In another video you can see it is the trailing aircraft of a 3 fighter formation. I think the other two were P51 Mustangs. Anyway, He's off of his line and not following directly behind them. It's possible he looked away for a second and got off of his line. It's also possible that when he pulled up behind them that he was closing on them too quickly so he went off of his line to bleed a bit of speed and let them pull ahead, at which point he would fall in behind them.
At the point of impact he is in a banking left turn which would probably bring him back on his line. In a banking left turn it's impossible to see below and to the right. Your own aircraft blocks your view. Especially in a P-63 which has a long nose and small and tight wienerpit without great visibility. I don't think he ever saw the B-17 despite it being huge. It was in his blind spot.
Staying on your line is really fricking important in an airshow. There are many aircraft in the air in a small area all flying in circles to pass back over the crowd. So staying on your line means you don't cross the flightpath of another aircraft. This looks to be a huge mistake by the P-63 that resulted in a horrible outcome. The National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ) will do a full investigation and we'll get more answer then.
There was an air show crash in the UK a few years ago that involved a fighter jet crashing onto a motorway in a giant ball of flame. The pilot literally walked away completely unharmed and got away with killing half a dozen people.
Seethe stupid brits crash planes into people just like americans
1 year ago
Anonymous
Fricking moron.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>Doesn’t deny it.
Get beheaded
1 year ago
Anonymous
WGAT THE FRICK IS YOUR POINT YOU FRICKING SPAKKA.
you came out of nowhere like guuuur le UK have le accident too buuur.
Noone was even talking about them being Americans? Fricking moron.
>this situation isn't nearly as funny as you edgy homosexuals keep trying to make it >there are 4x as many works of Michelangelo in existence than flying B-17s but hurr durr im edgy le Batman memes persist
>ancient zogbot toy is the same as high art from a master
who the frick cares about some piece of shit airplane? they are all the same and modern ones are far superior. They are also younger than my grandpa so they're not even that "historical"
local guy
literally seen him fly his plane over where I spend most of my time camping and backpacking
he either lives in Truckee or someplace around Grass Valley
Honestly I'm disappointed I'll never get such a cool death. Imagine plummeting to the ground in the flaming wreckage of an old warbird? You gotta know at least one of those guys had always wanted to go that way.
its an entire subcategory of human factors and a standardized term.
https://www.faasafety.gov/gslac/ALC/course_content.aspx?cID=408&sID=649&preview=true#:~:text=Definition%3A&text=Situational%20awareness%20is%20the%20accurate,during%2C%20and%20after%20the%20flight.
Looking out of the wienerpit and maintaining SA is literally one of the first things IPs have to teach student pilots when they start flying aircraft capable of actual maneuvering, if not corrected it can be a bad habit that lasts for years and can potentially lead to crashing. The last place your eyes should be when flying formation is down at your instrument panel.
crazy that the camera managed to capture to exact moment she hit the ground a milisecond before the plane exploded. what must a death like this be like? i would think its so instant you must not even feel a thing its like just instant lights out, probably better than most deaths
anyone else have a fear of a plane crashing onto them? i live not that far from an airport and always have planes flying sorta low over the house and they sometimes look to be flying kinda erratically. im always like sheeeeeitttt if that mothafricker lands on my goddamn house...
Same things that makes us laugh, makes us cry
In all seriousness, I don't think my granddad would want me to ever be sad about life after how much of a joker he was.
You guys think the vet got vaporized instantly or that he was scared or that he was prideful to die this way?
He was almost 90, it's a good way to go out in your own plane I think...
It's sad what happened but in a way it's also very fascinating for me because I've spent years reading about WW2 and you read about bombers being shot down or mid air collisions or whatever and I know it's not quite the same but yeah now I know what it looks like when a B52 goes down.
Any aviation experts here? How does something like that happen? All that airspace and still the dude just collides into a fricking bomber the size of a house.
What do you mean all that airspace? They had probably 2 dozen aircraft flying around at similar altitudes in a parade like event around an airstrip. If there's going to be a mid air collision this is where it happens
It's just so surreal that in 2 seconds your life is over. Pilots probably didn't even fully comprehend wtf happened when their plane exploded around them when the aircobra hit them.
The air safety institute guy thinks the smaller plane had gotten off the lane it was supposed to be flying and was trying to correct but did not see the B17 since visibility is poor in the smaller plane.
He didn't fly so good.
Bane?
Its beautiful
Is that Memphis Belle?
Texas Raiders
Imagine being in the nose turret, having the time of your life, then suddenly a huge shock and you're seeing the ground come up to meet you
that makes sense, once you have "the time of your life" there's really no where to go but down
You gotta think for these larp guys that has to be the best way to go out
only if it crashed into a German orphanage
>Americans still spend their weekends watching planes fly while rock you like a hurricane plays in the background
>you do as the Scorpions have done before you
Ha
Air shows are popular all over the world.
what is your favourite soccer chant? I mean, which is your favourite that hasn't been banned for "racisms"?
People who watch modern aircraft are cringe morons but seeing old timey propeller planes buzzing around is neat.
Calm down, sideshow bob
has your foreign shit hole even figured out aviation lmao
You say that as if it wasn't frickin badass
Oh btw, planes>trains>dinosaurs>trucks
Your "country" probably couldn't even afford an American warplane kek
This happens outside of America, too. There was one here in England a few years ago in which the pilot crashed an old jet fighter directly onto a busy street, killing ten people (not before ejecting himself, though).
based sending all those people to hell without giving them a chance to repent kek
Sounds comfy
and its still fricking cool.
>wake up
>seethe about americans enjoying an air show
it's wild how fast it happened and how quickly it was over. A shame and kind of insane how many relatively detailed photos there are of the disaster.
>Texas airshow
>a video where right as it happens a goblina shouts "ay dios mio"
leled even despite the tragedy.
Really good effects. What film is this? The one where Chloe Moretz fights a gremlin?
WTF she was fighting the gremlin, who played the gremlin then?
lori lightfoot
HE DIDN'T FLY SO GOOD
He did not aviate too proficiently.
The guys in the bomber were doing fine. It was the guy in the p63 that fricked up
>I CANT PARADE LAP
this is why you dont let plane nerds fly 60 year old high performance aircraft
>we have footage of a ww2 plane being shutdown
kino
>Not posting the full res
NGMI
Those pilots were probably thinking that they had somehow screwed up, all the way to the ground which sucks
>The tail fell off
>What do you mean the tell fell off?
Is it meant to fall off?
Well obviously not
a wave hit it
Is that what actually happened? It wasn't human error? All of the articles I read don't say shit
Are you moronic? The video clearly shows the Kingcobra colliding with it.
I don't think an official cause has been given by the investigators yet but it looks like the Kingcobra was where it wasn't meant to be and the pilot flew in a way he lost sight of the B-17 which is insanely dangerous
hadn't watched the video honestly
>NTSB reports take a while. Expect a preliminary in a week.
These planes don't have autopilot. Of course it's human error. The P-63 pilot wasn't even looking out to spot where B-17 was in relation to him. He had his head down in the wienerpit with no situational awareness.
If you think the guys flying these planes are former fighter pilots themselves, they're not. They're basic general aviation pilots who are either millionaires and can afford to fly these planes, even though they're not really qualified too, or they're pilots flying the planes on behalf of the millionaire's, who again, aren't really qualified and have no actual evasive stick and rudder experience. These guys know how to take off and fly in straight lines, that's it.
In recent years as actual former fighter pilots have died off who were flying these planes at airshows in in the past, more and more 50 year old boomers who are used to flying Cessnas and Beachcraft have filled in to fly these planes, and they've increasingly have been crashing them at a higher and higher rate.
you sound extremely butthurt
This wouldn't have happened with Tom Cruise at the controls.
Unironically it wouldn't. When he flies his P-51 his eyes are out the window attaining full SA like a pilot is supposed.
the P-51 was considerably better visibility than a P-63 too
39/63s dont actually have bad visibility. There are are fighters that had worse.
visibility might be the wrong word but they have a worse blind spot than most over the nose of the plane due to the engine/cannon design plus wienerpit design
They have better over the nose view than most planes. The only obstruction the wienerpits have is the car door and the forward frames. They have better than average rear visibility too. I have books written by Yeager, Bud Anderson, Robin Olds, ect. The biggest complaint about the 39s was its center of gravity, not the wienerpit visibility.
I think people are trying to give the pilot the benefit of the doubt because "something was obstructing his vision." There wasn't anything obstructing his vision, he wasn't qualified to formation fly and should have never been a part of the airshow in the first place. He simply never learned properly to practice SA.
If I was on that plane, it wouldn't have went down like it did. There would not have been a lot of blood in that wienerpit and then me saying, 'OK, we're going to land somewhere safely, don't worry.'
moron
Also the "view" from a P-39 and its derivatives is about 80% wienerpit and 20% of sky
He literally could not see that B-17 the minute his nose was even slightly above it
Obviously not confirmed yet but it was likely the pilots fault for flying in a way he lost sight of the B-17
Yeah, any time you bank a small fast plane into a much larger plane that is flying slow and level, it's going to be 100% your fault
the NTSB will cite pilot error as that was 99% chance the cause of it. Unless they caught a snipped of video hinting something wrong with the controls
It would also be near impossible to determine mechanical failure based on the destruction and the fact that planes like that would not have a flight data recorder.
>It's not my fault I reversed over your toddler, I couldn't see them behind my car!
I can't speak on the P-63 pilot but I know one of the guys flying the B-17 was a long time retired airline guy and most of them are former military
The one B17 pilot was a Korean war vet who flew Sabers
>Korean war vet
o-on whose side?
Nevermind I was wrong. He wasnt a fighter pilot. He flew in that exact B17 during the Korean war
>He flew in that exact B17 during the Korean war
oh man
imagine surviving all those missions in defended airspace, and then you get taken out by a moron in an air show
>"Theo, I'm out of ammunition. I'm going to ram it. Goodbye, I'll see you in Valhalla!"
https://~~*facebook*~~/b17TexasRaiders/videos/dan-regan-remembers-serving-on-tr/1752266428232100/
He was 87
Well, there aren't many teenage Korean War vets
Better than the last B-17 crash where they did a flight with passengers despite one of the engines acting up
Honestly kino death, more dignified than dying of old age, bedridden with soiled diapers
>spend your best years flying a reconnaissance retrofitted old ass ww2 plane in some random ass asiatic conflict
>70 years later you get back in it one last time
>the piece of shit finally takes you down with it
I mean, holy fricking kino
>1951, an 18-year-old B-17 crewman on his first mission: "holy frick I'm gonna die in this thing"
>spends years as a young greenhorn surviving harrowing war confrontations and last minute escapes from migs in his dinky old b-17
>in the last 20 minutes of the movie he
comes home from the war, settles down in utah, becomes an old fricking man ( 87 yrs )
>hear about a local airshow one day with the same plane you used to fly every day over enemy territory
>hop in the b-17 for one last ride
>half a second before it slams into the ground "you son of a b***h"
Biopic when?
Final Destination: Korea
신사숙녀 여러분, 우리는 그를 잡았습니다
this just keeps getting worse
He’d be pushing 100 if he fought in Korea so this is unlikely
Wasted digits. Lrn 2 math zoomer
ignorant and moronic, many such cases
?t=11
The Eternal Zero
Reminded me of Pearl Harbor in the "friend sacrifices himself in place of another and asks him to take care of his kid in exchange" part
holy mother of non tranime anime kino
kino shot
>the pilot holding onto the roof
kek
What
where
Op pic. You can see the co pilot without his shirt and his arm at a 90 degree angle holding on the roof probably shitting his pants
>if only you knew how bad things really are
“What’s plan b?”
“That was plan b!”
>"but now we shall both most certainly die" said the b17
>"lol", said the king cobra. "lmao".
god fricking dammit
WE GAAN
Can you explain to me why he didn't just jump out of the open window?
Very low height.
They're strapped to their seats so unstrapping themselves and picking the chute would have taken more time than they got
I still don't see him
Still don't know what the frick I'm looking at
I don’t see the king cobra pilot. Did he get insta-vaporised?
That must've have been surreal, one minute you're flying and then 4 seconds later plowing in to the ground dead instantly
I can fix it my dads a television repair man
cat
>cat
happens
>GUIZE?
>that double take at 0:23
Legendary.
Imagine having a nice glide and noticing your fricking cat is in the wing but still having the experience to get your ride down to safety.
That wasn't the only pussy that was wet.
To think german pilots were doing this on purpose toward the end it crazy i cant even imagine the type of scene it must have been with a whole squadron of these firing tracers at fighters and flak exploding everywhere
It was like the 4th of July 10 times over. You just had to be there kid, you couldn't even begin to imagine.
what does that writing say in debris at the top left? someone post this shit on /x/
>007
Good Job, James. I'll meet you at the extraction point. For Englad
-DAY
This is art
It even looks like it's been signed "DAN" in the top left corner
With no survivor
can someone see the p-63 pilot in there?
>Damn you, fool!
Realistically, what could the B-17 pilot done to stay in the air?
Nothing? literally a 4 ton mass of metal hit you at 400-500 kmph no skill is going to save you from that
I don't think there's much you can do when most of your plane just disintegrates around you.
Literally just maintain airspeed and stable, level flight
Launch himself out of the secret mini plane that still has its tail intact
russians did it
while it may have been a ukrainian pilot, russia is ultimately responsible
quads confirmed
Checked and factual
Didn't we give a ton of the earlier aircobra to the soviets?
GAAN?
You're all so hot about aviation disasters you forget about the miracles.
>let's paint a bunch of swastikas on our plane, that'll really stick it to those Nazis!
You don't get to paint the swastika unless you DO stick it to the nazis.
That's how many they killed.
>Nazi's only killed 8.
What about the other 5,999,992?
It's how many German fighter planes the bomber shot down.
He's being deliberately stupid to bait for (You)s, Anon. Is this your first thread?
>Drop 25 bombs
>only kill 8 nazis
shit c**ts t b h
It's really hard to kill nazis, they beat you to it most of the time.
damn
Each swastika represents 1 aryan child that those golems killed.
Disasters are more fun.
>Night flying
>Think they've gone through a wormhole or some shit because they're flying for hours over an endless ocean in all directions
>Finally bail out with rafts and shit when it's out of fuel
>They were actually flying over sand dunes in the North African desert
>The plane lands gently with most of their food and water, but isn't discovered for 15 years
>Everybody dies in the desert, the last survivor being 320 km/200 mi from the crash and 160 km/99 mi from rescue
This one still fricking scares me even 2 decades after reading about it. Imagine just crashing in the middle of a continent sized sand dune and never ever being found.
>good news! Were not going into the ocean!
>great!
>so what's the bad news?
>bad news, we're going down 300 miles from the nearest Army Air base
Ok, the bombs are the ones they dropped successfully I assume
The swastikas how many nazi fighters they took out
But whate are the starts? friendly fire?
Bombs are probably confirmed target hits and the stars might be high value targets since they line up with the bombs
Stars are normally awards
Considering that these things were covered in heavy machine guns it could be argued they may have been a threat to enemy fighter planes
Enhance.
Is he not wearing a shirt
Was it an IRL banepost?
It was done for real in licence to kill.
is anyone making the air disasters thread or are we shitposting here
You think if one of those mofos were wearing a parachute they had the reaction time to set it off?
Neither plane had ejection seats. No chance
Fricking throw myself out the window the frick pham?
>just open the window
at that altitude with zero reaction time nah they were just plain fricked
Plane fricked*
U had 1 job
No.
>We have information that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton and expose the 2020 election frau-
now someone shows the japs how to do it correcly
Like 4 seconds from plane hit to hitting the ground and the last 1.5s was upside down almost
>fricking jap kamikaze
>when you had that leftover sushi for breakfast
Gotta give it to the Yanks, they're really dedicated to Sonderkommando Elbe reenactment
Is find that German jet pilot who ran out of ammo and rammed the last yank bomber after telling his wingman “See you in Valhalla” but that Coffman israelite on Wikipedia probably got his page deleted
I’d find*
And that pilots name? Albert Einstein
Lol what kind of moron was driving that little plane
moron
moron
RE-
There are no radars in these. You can't see anything that is bellow you.
I know right? just move the stick to either side, how hard can it be?
who was in the wrong?
>who was in the wrong?
Probably the smaller plane. In another video you can see it is the trailing aircraft of a 3 fighter formation. I think the other two were P51 Mustangs. Anyway, He's off of his line and not following directly behind them. It's possible he looked away for a second and got off of his line. It's also possible that when he pulled up behind them that he was closing on them too quickly so he went off of his line to bleed a bit of speed and let them pull ahead, at which point he would fall in behind them.
At the point of impact he is in a banking left turn which would probably bring him back on his line. In a banking left turn it's impossible to see below and to the right. Your own aircraft blocks your view. Especially in a P-63 which has a long nose and small and tight wienerpit without great visibility. I don't think he ever saw the B-17 despite it being huge. It was in his blind spot.
Staying on your line is really fricking important in an airshow. There are many aircraft in the air in a small area all flying in circles to pass back over the crowd. So staying on your line means you don't cross the flightpath of another aircraft. This looks to be a huge mistake by the P-63 that resulted in a horrible outcome. The National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ) will do a full investigation and we'll get more answer then.
>pick-up taking two spaces
planes should have crashed on top of him
I wish I could witness a airplane crash in real life it’d be kino as frick to see in person
The sound was spooky of the hit.
>I'm out of ammunition. I'll see you in Valhalla!
I understood that reference
>Lazy ass Valkyrie doesn't want to look for each of your body parts so she decides to file you to Hel
>You don’t have the firepower.
>I’ve got the mass.
I understood this reference carterbro. hit 'em hard boss
There was an air show crash in the UK a few years ago that involved a fighter jet crashing onto a motorway in a giant ball of flame. The pilot literally walked away completely unharmed and got away with killing half a dozen people.
I used to have the webm of that one too, but I accidentally my hard drive
Completely different aircraft/situation/type of crash. You fricking moron. You fricking spastic. Why bother commenting stupid c**t? Fricking idiot
Rude
Seething britbong. They’re both airshow plane crashes.
And? YOU FRICKING moron.
Seethe stupid brits crash planes into people just like americans
Fricking moron.
>Doesn’t deny it.
Get beheaded
WGAT THE FRICK IS YOUR POINT YOU FRICKING SPAKKA.
you came out of nowhere like guuuur le UK have le accident too buuur.
Noone was even talking about them being Americans? Fricking moron.
Was this intentional? He doesn't seem to even try to change course.
kino. why can't they make a plane crash like this with cgi? all the existing ones look like videogame cutscenes
Which movie has the most realistic plane explosions
>Do you feel in charge?
way too close to the ground for a parachute to save them
>mofos
Stop posting here old man.
MAYDAY MAYDAY
this situation isn't nearly as funny as you edgy homosexuals keep trying to make it
there are 4x as many works of Michelangelo in existence than flying B-17s but hurr durr im edgy le Batman memes persist
I’m more mad a bunch of morons destroyed a badass plane. U super gay.
Calm down, Francis.
>this situation isn't nearly as funny as you edgy homosexuals keep trying to make it
>there are 4x as many works of Michelangelo in existence than flying B-17s but hurr durr im edgy le Batman memes persist
NOTHING, I SAID NOTHING.
Perhaps he's wondering why someone would fly a rare vintage airplane, before crashing another one into it
If you fly a plane theres a good chance this will happen, theres plenty of museum pieces
>muh boomer plane
At least you can talk! Who are you?
You're not wrong, but you do have a strong disease in your soul. One that will eat away at you... until you die.
>ancient zogbot toy is the same as high art from a master
who the frick cares about some piece of shit airplane? they are all the same and modern ones are far superior. They are also younger than my grandpa so they're not even that "historical"
Dios mio!
So they all died right? Was hoping for at least one survivor with a good story
There's no surviving a 500ft drop onto hard ground that ends in a fireball
Did you see the video?
Hmmm WW2 planes, veterans, I wonder if it was symbolic
This guy is a pilot who does analysis on crashes like this and gives a pretty good rundown of this crash
I don't want a pretty good rundown I want a quick rundown
plane go crash
hit ground boom
the front fell off
How do you know?
*Voooom*
*Crash*
*Splat*
*BOOOOOM*
Sum Ting Wong
Wee To Low
Ho Lee Fuk
Bang Ding Au
local guy
literally seen him fly his plane over where I spend most of my time camping and backpacking
he either lives in Truckee or someplace around Grass Valley
Honestly I'm disappointed I'll never get such a cool death. Imagine plummeting to the ground in the flaming wreckage of an old warbird? You gotta know at least one of those guys had always wanted to go that way.
Honestly none of them had any time to process anything, it was about 4 seconds of OH SHIT WHAT THE F- and then insta death
This reminds me of the scene from HEAVY METAL where the pilots come back as zombies in the downed bomber plane.
>all the armchair aviation experts enter the thread
I would've done this.
truly one of the most insane and hilariously stupid things i've seen happen in a film
>japanese acting
"Situational awareness" just means whatever the person saying it wants it to mean. Midwits thinks it makes them sound informed.
its an entire subcategory of human factors and a standardized term.
https://www.faasafety.gov/gslac/ALC/course_content.aspx?cID=408&sID=649&preview=true#:~:text=Definition%3A&text=Situational%20awareness%20is%20the%20accurate,during%2C%20and%20after%20the%20flight.
>t. Midwit
Looking out of the wienerpit and maintaining SA is literally one of the first things IPs have to teach student pilots when they start flying aircraft capable of actual maneuvering, if not corrected it can be a bad habit that lasts for years and can potentially lead to crashing. The last place your eyes should be when flying formation is down at your instrument panel.
You'd know if you were a pilot...
>t. midwit with 60 hours in a rented 172
the air show organizers were at fault. Too many planes at the same altitude
I don't think they were meant to be at the same altitude
both flight paths look level though
This guy doesn’t know what’s going on around him.
keeping track of things going on around you, you fricking clueless moron
>Wowee look at me I can say the important words!
Yes b***h. Just because you keep your eyes down on the ground doesn’t mean other people don’t know what’s going on around them.
Seething
the dude crashed into a fricking plane
I know we can blame WW2 vets for the israelite takeover of the world, but we can thank Korean vets for starting WMAF
Perhaps the only actual war heroes in history then
ENOLA GAY
SHOULDA STAYED AT HOME YESTERDAY
>non pilots seething at anons that actually know about this stuff
>t. seething midwit
delicate snowflake is triggered
>Jane Wicker, sitting on top of the world!
OH N-
*record scratch*
crazy that the camera managed to capture to exact moment she hit the ground a milisecond before the plane exploded. what must a death like this be like? i would think its so instant you must not even feel a thing its like just instant lights out, probably better than most deaths
fixed
what must go through their minds in those last few seconds? its gotta be so quick you can barely process whats happening before youre already dead
anyone else have a fear of a plane crashing onto them? i live not that far from an airport and always have planes flying sorta low over the house and they sometimes look to be flying kinda erratically. im always like sheeeeeitttt if that mothafricker lands on my goddamn house...
no, but I have a recurring daydream of a chopper going down nearby and what I would grab in order to effectively help a borderline survivable crash.
extinguisher, cutting torch, axe, mask, layers, gauntlets
I had about 200 dreams where dozens of jumbo jets from dulles just randomly crashed into the neighborhood that I live in.
at this point a plane crashing on me would be merciful
You guys think this is funny?
You think it's funny to laugh at innocent men being killed in an unfortunate accident?
I don't personally, but it doesn't really matter does it?
Same things that makes us laugh, makes us cry
In all seriousness, I don't think my granddad would want me to ever be sad about life after how much of a joker he was.
They could’ve not gotten into the planes
I used to fly a b-17 flying fortress (in the titular Amiga game), and another plane never flew into me.
Why are Americans so fricking moronic?
I landed safely from worse in Il-2 games
A B17 crashed into a WW2 fighter I've never heard of at an airshow last week. Not sure if it made the news.
The thing about cobras, is that they bite your ankles
one of the most kino events in recent memory
what is this?!
a convertible b-27
IGGER
You guys think the vet got vaporized instantly or that he was scared or that he was prideful to die this way?
He was almost 90, it's a good way to go out in your own plane I think...
It's sad what happened but in a way it's also very fascinating for me because I've spent years reading about WW2 and you read about bombers being shot down or mid air collisions or whatever and I know it's not quite the same but yeah now I know what it looks like when a B52 goes down.
Any aviation experts here? How does something like that happen? All that airspace and still the dude just collides into a fricking bomber the size of a house.
What do you mean all that airspace? They had probably 2 dozen aircraft flying around at similar altitudes in a parade like event around an airstrip. If there's going to be a mid air collision this is where it happens
Read the thread spazmo.
CGI or real life?
WHO WANTS TO TRY NEXT!
It's just so surreal that in 2 seconds your life is over. Pilots probably didn't even fully comprehend wtf happened when their plane exploded around them when the aircobra hit them.
>airplane is called "bomber"
>crashes down and explodes like a bomb
Yanks should have called it "Flyer" instead, dummies.
I think it's kino that such evil planes which hurt so many innocent people are destroyed in such an accident.
I got to jump out of the 909 before it crashed in Connecticut killing like 7 people
Did they forget to shoot you before throwing off the plane
how the frick did you survive?
Who says I did?
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Startling how this off topic thread’s been up for 13 hours, not the worst one like something political but still
Stop being a homosexual
The air safety institute guy thinks the smaller plane had gotten off the lane it was supposed to be flying and was trying to correct but did not see the B17 since visibility is poor in the smaller plane.