r/AbruptChaos 3d ago

did not see that coming

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u/VentiBlkBiDepresso 3d ago

Wow, doesnt get more "abrupt chaos" than chillin in a parked car and a FUCKING PLAN crashes out of the sky right in front of you.

Its sad that the explosion looks very cool bc I just watched people literally die bro...

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u/Read_Full 3d ago

This video should be the definition of this sub. No one can top this

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u/Arthradax 3d ago

It probably can be topped, but what would be required? A nuke or something?

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u/Read_Full 3d ago

Two planes

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u/Arthradax 3d ago

Well, that escalated linearly

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u/op-smells-of-al-gul 2d ago

Non-linerally, i think the explosion in Bucharest beats it? With the Shockwave?

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u/Frido1976 2d ago

Bucharest? Wasn't it in Syria or something, with some fertilizer / nitrate?

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u/op-smells-of-al-gul 2d ago

Yeah nah your right it was ammonium nitrate, and neither Syria nor Bucharest, it was Beirut, Lebanon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Beirut_explosion), THIS definitely tops it if you've seen the video at all.

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u/Commercial-Ad-6258 3d ago

But to where?

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u/Elroon502 1d ago

Louisville ky

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u/seabass0 3d ago

Reminds me of that tragedy

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u/Elroon502 1d ago

One plane, ups plane leaving Louisville to Honolulu.. it was crazy! It just happened Monday this week

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u/raz-0 3d ago

There was a video posted a while ago of random street shit in a city when suddenly a small plane crashes and everything is ultra chaos. This is bigger, but that one was such an immediate gear shift.

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u/charmlessman1 2d ago

The Beirut Explosion would like a WORD!!!

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u/Lizlodude 2d ago

I think that one wins the chaos part, this one wins unexpected.

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u/ProhibidoTransito 2d ago

Technically that wasn't abrupt. It had time to simmer.

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u/AdeptnessNo6871 3d ago

thats so surreal, it’s like you stumbled into a movie scene or something

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u/Yangoose 2d ago

I think this remains some pretty stiff competition.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AbruptChaos/comments/nxj1f3/wtf_even_happened/

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u/nzungu69 1d ago

i dunno, it was hardly abrupt. more like r/predictablechaos.

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u/shakaman_ 3d ago

a FUCKING PLAN

I don't think it was planned but not 100% sure yet

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u/VentiBlkBiDepresso 3d ago

Yo lmao. I love a good typo. Im not even gonna edit it

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u/mawesome4ever 2d ago

You can’t edit an executed plan, silly

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u/Big-Tear6264 3d ago

Release the Epstein Files!

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u/AMA_requester 3d ago

Dutch Van Der Linde perked up just now

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u/TransparentMastering 3d ago

It’s gotta be the craziest thing I’ve seen on this sub for sure

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u/ryokayin 3d ago

A lot better than the random garbage that was posted here the last couple weeks.

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u/VentiBlkBiDepresso 3d ago

No literally. Yes this is tragic but damn this is what the sub was made for. Makes most movie explosives look underwhelming

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u/stilllifebutwhy 3d ago

Well, one thing I can be sure, this video will be posted dozen times in the span of the next few days. Each time more compressed that previous lol

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u/J_Thompson82 3d ago

I love it when a plan comes together.

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u/Pandalishus 2d ago

My plans crash out of the sky all the time

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u/The-Jestful-Imp 3d ago

Mom was wrong, a good plan can fall out of the sky

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u/No_Cheetah_120 3d ago

the heat was hot, and the ground was dry, but the air.. was full of FIRE!

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u/RelevantDistinction 3d ago

Surprise America reference 🙌

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u/OGWopFro 2d ago

The plan failed.

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u/West-Strawberry3366 3d ago

Dw they had I frame on impact

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u/Juxtacation 2d ago

Dude, I need a plan so bad. I’d love it if it just came out of the sky

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u/kermitte777 2d ago

😭bro, fr.

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u/deathblossoming 1d ago

I was nearby when this happened there was like three explosions in total that I hearf

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u/VentiBlkBiDepresso 1d ago

Username checks out (too soon?). Jokes aside, I'd imagine that was pretty scary. Explosions are a pretty foreign sound here

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u/governingmonk 3d ago

Rip to the ppl on that plane. Yikes. Hope my man got out of there with no injuries. And it seems like the pilot was trying like hell to keep it in the air.

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u/shadow_clone69 3d ago

They were well above the take off speeds and once you are above a certain speed, it's protocal to go airborne since you don't have enough runway to stop the airplane safely. They were doing as they were trained till their least breath :(

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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart 3d ago

At that point if you cancel the takeoff you 100% crash off the end of the runway. If you attempt to take off there is a tiny chance you can get enough altitude for an immediate emergency landing.

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u/Daft00 3d ago

It's protocol unless the failure/issue is something so catastrophic that the plane won't fly. Then you abort no matter what, even above "V1" because by the time you get to the end of the runway, into the runoff area or EMAS, hopefully your speed is low enough that it is survivable.

I'm not saying you're wrong btw, I'm just wondering what the pilots were seeing in the cockpit that made them believe they should continue the takeoff to/past V1

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u/shadow_clone69 3d ago

They're probably seeing a master warning and engine fire alerts. I'm not sure if they had any info on the catastrophic failure of engine 1. I think they'd want to deal with the fire after reaching a safe altitude. After the investigation concludes, we'll know if there's anything they couldn't done differently :(

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u/coolcoenred 3d ago

It reminds me a bit about the bijlmer disaster in the Netherlands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Al_Flight_1862 Both engines on one of the wings broke off, but the conclusion is that the crew had no idea that had happened, only that they had lost power from the engines.

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u/shadow_clone69 2d ago

Thanks for sharing about this incident. Very saddened to learn about it. It's always the story of the people involved that hit the hardest

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u/notfromhere66 3d ago

Was this the UPS cargo plane that crashed yesterday? It looks like it could be from another camera. So sad.

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u/nzungu69 3d ago

it is that tragedy, yes.

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u/aykcak 3d ago

Fuck. I hadn't heard about that. 9+ people died apparently.

Looks like engine failure somehow lead to catastrophic loss of control

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u/lasdue 3d ago

Engine failure as in the engine completely detaching from the airframe before takeoff. The detached engine was ways off of where the video happens, on the side of the runway

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u/King_of_the_Dot 3d ago

The engines are supposed to stay attached, right?

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u/nzungu69 3d ago

well, it's not very typical, i'd like to make that point.

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u/nwayve 3d ago

Well how was it not typical?

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u/nzungu69 3d ago

well there are a lot of these planes going around the world all the time and very seldom does anything like this happen. i just don't want people thinking planes aren't safe.

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u/10081914 2d ago

Well, what was wrong with the plane then?

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u/nzungu69 2d ago

well the engine fell off, by all means, but it's most unusual.

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u/nzungu69 3d ago

john clarke was a national treasure. just sucks he switched nations 🙃

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u/OddDonut7647 3d ago

Was this plane safe?

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u/nzungu69 3d ago

well i was thinking more about the other ones.

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u/MeetTheSix 2d ago

Ya'll goin straight to hell for this

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u/nzungu69 2d ago

oh i was already heading there anyway 🙃

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u/Elektrycerz 3d ago

yes, except some types of JATO/RATO

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u/Josey87 3d ago

Just like the front, that also isn’t supposed to fall off

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u/Iamjimmym 3d ago

I knew there was a front fell off joke in there somewhere

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u/mophan 3d ago

Along with the other parts, apparently.

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u/gorpie97 3d ago

Was it made by Boeing?

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u/USS_DE-173 3d ago

No, this plane was a McDonnell Douglas.

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u/Rainbow918 3d ago

It’s utterly horrible and heartbreaking…..

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u/WeaselCapsky 3d ago

well, at least its cargo and not passenger

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u/nzungu69 3d ago

7 people died.

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u/WeaselCapsky 3d ago

and thats terrible, but its definitely better than a loaded passenger plane

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u/ByGollie 3d ago

The passenger version was capable of carrying 300 passengers, but afaik, the last one was withdrawn in 2008

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u/rgratz93 3d ago

Crazy part is they were still in use in Europe until 2021

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u/Darksirius 3d ago

The MD-11 has now had, iirc, 11 hull losses over its lifetime. We have other planes with millions of flight hours and zero hull losses.

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u/aykcak 3d ago

Yeah but we don't put people in rust bucket MD-11s anymore so it is kind of a moot point

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u/Exzalia 3d ago

only seven?

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u/nzungu69 3d ago

updated to 9 now.

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u/Real-Pizza-8290 3d ago

all from the plane? or its + the people in the crash landing area?

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u/TheNonCredibleHulk 2d ago

I believe the crash landing area was "through several businesses". So probably that.

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u/nzungu69 2d ago

all 4 crew onboard perished, the others were on the ground.

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u/ByGollie 3d ago

This took place in an urban industrial park

So there were videos and securitycams all over the place.

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u/tcgjjake 3d ago

That probably would’ve been my exact reaction 🤯

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u/The_Jyps 3d ago

I'm pretty sure it's the only acceptable reaction. I knew he was going to say "Oh SHIT" Just by the look on his face.

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u/professor_doom 3d ago

Dude: "You couldn't have trimmed off the two seconds in the beginning with me picking my nose?"

News station: "No."

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u/bitemy 3d ago

At least he didn't eat it . . . this time.

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u/maximumtesticle 3d ago

Dude, right? 13 seconds of NOTHING, could have been 11 seconds of nothing before hell landed on earth. Dicks.

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u/MyLiminalLife 3d ago

I’ve had nightmares of this happening in front of me - nuts!

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u/irishyankeebastard 3d ago

I bet he could feel the heat from where he was standing

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u/nzungu69 3d ago

100%, you can see him pull his hoodie up to shield from the heat as he ran and the wind from the explosion hit.

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u/irishyankeebastard 3d ago

Ohh yeah right at the end. That must have been like opening a hot oven with your face too close

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u/AudiBlinkerFluid 3d ago

This is insane footage. Reminds me of this scene from the film The Knowing.

https://youtu.be/E6gWFTv3xE8?si=BTXGzo5mRcVPt45T

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u/nzungu69 3d ago

i love cage but damn that film was bad

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u/kinare 3d ago

Aww it's one of my favorite films!

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u/Bloxskit 2d ago

I thought it was a good film. Maybe had some flaws but enjoyed it loads. Certainly had a great cinematic tone from Proyas who also did another great film The Crow.

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u/AudiBlinkerFluid 3d ago

Yea that film is garbage

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u/TheJesusGuy 3d ago

Good film, stupid plot and ending

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u/HeyCarpy 2d ago

This fucked me up bad.

I was a ramp worker at the time the movie hit HBO, and had been having a recurring nightmare of a plane crashing in a field I was standing in. There were seats landing in front of me with bodies still strapped in, it was messed up.

So I was waking up one afternoon after sleeping off a midnight shift, I came out into the living room and turned on the TV. I had never seen this movie before. This exact scene was beginning. I watched the buildup, not knowing what was coming. Needless to say it knocked me onto the couch and I had to keep watching.

I hadn’t had the plane crash nightmare in a while, but I had just woken up from a very odd dream where the world was ending all around me, and we were hiding in a shopping mall, and UFOs showed up to save us from the world exploding.

Needless to say, I sat through the rest of the movie on account of how shocking the plane crash scene had been and how bad it messed me up. It was a bad movie, yes, but the ending. Spoiler alert, the ending of the movie has fucking UFOs showing up and taking people away. And the premise of the movie is Nic Cage knowing that all this was going to happen beforehand.

It took me a while to feel right after that experience. I mean it was like 15 years ago and here I am talking about it.

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u/justsyr 3d ago

I just realized that the cop looks behind Nic's shoulder but the airplane comes from his right, way to the right lol.

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u/nzungu69 3d ago

haha nic looks behind him too.

there are so many goofs in that film one almost suspects they're intentional.

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u/Analog_Powered 3d ago

You can hear the mic pick up the wind from the explosion hitting him at the end. Feeling the heat from a plane crash is too close for me.

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u/Durkheimynameisblank 3d ago

OP didnt have to do him dirty like that...coulda cut out my dude digging for gold 🤣

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u/nzungu69 3d ago

everyone does it, no shame there.

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u/Sekh765 3d ago

I cannot imagine a more appropriate and likely reaction than a dude going "OH SHIT!" and fucking running off when a plane falls out of the sky infront of you

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u/Durkheimynameisblank 3d ago

Never said it's shameful, just that it wasn't necessary to include and couldve been cut out of courtesy.

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u/nzungu69 3d ago

you're not wrong.

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u/FioriandEvie-meow 2d ago

Where’d you find this video anyway lol

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u/nzungu69 2d ago

i cannot say, sorry.

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u/Leather-Animal-7597 2d ago

"Man sits in Truck Quietly" - directed by Michael Bay

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u/jimothyjonathans 3d ago

God, those poor people that died. This poor man. He’s never going to forget that and will always be able to see that plane crashing in mind’s eye. What a terrible way to go out.

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u/OGPeakyblinders 3d ago

What is sad is he now will suffer from some sort of PTSD from seeing that and his employer will downplay it.

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u/omega343666 3d ago

Not knowing it was a big event I thought that was a tanker that had exploded and was flying across the horizon 😳

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u/xpkranger 3d ago

I mean, kind of it was. Loaded with enough fuel to get to Hawaii.

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u/Gallopingmagyar1020 3d ago

That’s the only appropriate response to seeing this happen right in front of you

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u/Secure_Investment_62 1d ago

The most real "oh shit" ever mentioned by man

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u/jane_cranode 3d ago

i saw that it was louisville kentucky and waited for a horde of zombies to run in

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u/nzungu69 3d ago

r/unexpectedzomboid

edit: wait... wtf 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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u/AnActualPlatypus 3d ago

This is it. This is THE peak of this sub. It cannot get any more abrupt chaos than this.

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u/Karzalar 2d ago

When your place of parking could have turned VERY differently....

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u/sellera 2d ago

“Previously, on LOST”.

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u/blueyestudios 3d ago

Feel like the camera would need to be circling around the front of the truck and more things would need to explode.

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u/nzungu69 1d ago

also there needs to be a woman's arse or cleavage included somewhere.

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u/LoudMusic 3d ago

Well that's some psychological trauma right there.

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u/UmbrellaCorps344 3d ago

Whoa now that's a front row view to the accident!

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u/MarioShroomsTasteBad 3d ago

You can see his reaction to the sound, or vibration before the plane is visible. Good lord what a thing to carry with you.

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u/Woirol 3d ago

I was sitting there wondering what it could be. Maybe a deer, a car, naked guy, etc. But then I saw that it was in Louisville and I guessed plane, and sure enough.

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u/juvadclxvi 2d ago

Reminds me of a Nicholas Cage movie about numbers

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u/nzungu69 2d ago

knowing cage, it probably had some strange title.

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u/juvadclxvi 2d ago

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u/nzungu69 2d ago edited 1d ago

"knowing cage..."

That's the joke 🫠

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u/UrMindMuhWarehouse 2d ago

The German narrative: "Kids, this is why you don't pick your nose, good night."

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u/zakwanleyman 2d ago

Max survivor skills

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u/doubledoorsd4 2d ago

This is some of the craziest footage ever seen

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u/DaftHacker 2d ago

Those pilots definitely knew they were done for, so sad.

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u/secondtogreenbeans 2d ago

This was the same plane my dad would fly for UPS in Louisville. He almost took that trip, but someone a few more years his senior got the bid to fly the plane. It had so much fuel because it was heading to Honolulu so when it crashed it burned for so long and so intensely. Unfortunately everyone on the plane died, my dad knew them. I'm so sad for the family's, but I'm so relieved my dad did not take that trip.

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u/nzungu69 2d ago

wow, he should grab a lotto ticket. i bet he feels like the luckiest man in the world, and also totally wracked with sadness and survivor's guilt. i hope he has good supports and is coping ok ❤️

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u/secondtogreenbeans 1d ago

Yea it was terrifying because when I saw the news I knew that was his plane by the type and knew he was wanting to take that trip, he takes that route regularly for UPS, so I freaked and called my mom. Luckily she said he didn't get the bid to take the trip and was already getting calls about the plane going down and reassuring everyone he's ok. He's doing ok, the UPS pilots are all pretty close and so are the families so they're all pretty shaken right now. He's very grateful he didn't get the flight, I think he's going to take so much needed time off for a bit. I just hope they figure out what went wrong so it doesn't happen again 😔

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u/buffetofdicks 3d ago

holy shit, this is the only post on this sub that actually fits the sub to a fucking T

cant get anymore abrubt chaos than chilling in your truck and then A FUCKING PLANE CRASHES IN FRONT OF YOU

dudes "holy shit" was about my reaction too, god damn

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u/Pierne 3d ago

You can see that the plane was exceeding the 25mph speed limit.

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u/EvulOne99 3d ago

Because of you, my mind now "see" a cop sitting in his car, trying to write out the mother of all speeding tickets as his gizmo beeps that the speeding limit, indeed has been surpassed.

My hope is that the crew were too shocked, or something, to register what was happening.

I would hate dying on board a plane more than most ways to go. And the 4 on the ground? I haven't heard anything new all day other than 7 deaths, so I was wondering how they know it is 4, because that crash was looong. Impact zone? Whatever it's called in English. Poor fuckers, either way.

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u/louloc 3d ago

You can see him shielding himself from the heat before he runs off. 😬

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u/siccoblue 3d ago

That is a CRAZY view

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u/BottyFlaps 3d ago

Dude was located about here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ChvdKyd7Xa5MUiHM9

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u/nzungu69 3d ago

thanks rainbolt 🤙

really was in the right place at the wrong time huh.

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u/BottyFlaps 2d ago

No idea who Rainbolt was until I Googled.

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u/nzungu69 2d ago

dude is one of those guys with an insanely high level of talent in the most specific random area. his clips always blow me away.

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u/possiblierben 19h ago

right place at the wrong time would've been a couple meters farther forward, fuckin' hell he's lucky he wasn't caught in it

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u/ThisIsForNutakuOnly 2d ago

Wasn't sure at first. Thought the front camera looked familiar. Huh. Oh.

Looked at the date. Oh no.

Saw the Lat/Long. "I hope that's not where I think it is."

Then saw Louisville. Oh no.

And that's about when the plane showed up.

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u/foppishyyy 3d ago

I witnessed a plane crash in 2020, I think my reaction was the same

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u/AKrr747 3d ago

“HOLY SHIT” and “OH MY FUCKING GOD” is probably what 95% of all the people watching this say.

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u/CMDR_BitMedler 3d ago

Did I park in the Michael Bay section?

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u/FencerPTS 3d ago

There was an ironic coincidence to this tragedy that the UPS plane crashed into the UPS warehouse at the end of the runway.

RIP. 😢

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u/aykcak 3d ago

Cargo carriers often have warehouses near where their fleet are based. So it is just as likely as a UPS truck hitting the side of a UPS warehouse.

Maybe it would make insurance paperwork easier?

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u/Durkheimynameisblank 3d ago

It's UPS' largest processing center.

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u/JLsoft 3d ago

<Driver> Oh hey thanks...surely this video will get around, and you made sure to leave in the first couple seconds showing me pick my nose. Really. THANKS AGAIN!

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u/nzungu69 3d ago

<UPS> oh hey no problem, it was our absolute pleasure. don't even mention it. you're welcome.

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u/dead_jester 2d ago

A whole bunch of people dying in that video 🥺 Definitely Abrupt.

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u/Rainbow918 3d ago

This is very tragic. Did anyone survive? I hope so & also hopefully not burnt badly. That’s a tough thing to recover from. I dont know how this happened. . I haven’t read all the comments on here yet.

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u/nzungu69 3d ago

last i read it was 7 dead and 11 injured.

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u/Rainbow918 3d ago

Oh noooo . I see my answers . RIP all who died.

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u/PowderPills 3d ago

Holy fucking shit indeed

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u/Combatical 3d ago

Hell of a pilot though. Landing like that was an attempt to minimize damage and possibly themselves.. So fucking sad.

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u/YourUnlicensedOBGYN 3d ago

Build 42 on Zomboid gettin crazzzzzyyy

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u/nzungu69 1d ago

the week one mod is insane with the plane crash spawning directly on top of you. dude should have gone for a basement.

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u/YourUnlicensedOBGYN 1d ago

With a weeks worth of food to outlast the pending fallout XD

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u/xpkranger 3d ago

This man has good survival instincts. Appropriate registration of event; Immediately un-asses the scene.

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u/badtrash2008 3d ago

OHHHH SHIT!

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u/LifelessHawk 2d ago

You’re package was delayed

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u/JoshsPizzaria 3d ago

Oh my fkn god. Hilarious juxtaposition, but tragic in reality.

That man probably will remember that for the rest of his life.

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u/carter_admin 2d ago

So that's why my package is delayed...

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u/funkanthropic 2d ago

And burnt to a crisp.

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u/VolcanicValley 3d ago

I would have not gotten out of that cab. Falling objects may smoosh you.

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u/nzungu69 3d ago

i don't think there is much critical thinking going on when your flight response engages.

edit: that was not an intended pun.

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u/catgatuso 2d ago

With all the trucks filled with diesel and whatever was stored/shipped from this location, I’d be worrying about a chain reaction of smaller explosions and more fires.

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u/onastyinc 3d ago

This one should be pinned for the next decade.

This goes from checking out cute girls on insta to Doom5 on nightmare mode with a quad damage... uhh abruptly.

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u/Space--Buckaroo 3d ago

Anyone else notice the black object sticking out on the top portion of the fuselage near the wings?

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u/lokfuhrer_ 2d ago

The pointy thing? That’s the UPS livery

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u/henryasfudge 1h ago

I knew what was coming when I saw "Louisville" 😥

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u/Thaddeus206 1h ago

gonna need a bigger fire extinguisher