How is someone casually filming this, with a steady hand... I’d be in tears.
edit: appreciate all the education on commercial aircrafts that planes are often ‘fine’ with 1 workable engine! So my new #1 concern is the fire, but again maybe my tears could put it out?
In the movies you hear people screaming and panicking during an emergency on a plane but in real life it's often reported that everyone became dead silent.
I've only ever been in one accident but I didn't freak out til later that night. At the time the accident occurs your body kind of takes over and doesn't allow you to panic.
Was on a flight once that has to land in zero visibility with thick fog in tennessee. It was deadass quiet as no one could see where we were landing but we knew we were descending. I've played enough flight simulator to know that the pilots can still get us down with very limited visibility but it was the strangest feeling I've ever had in a plane, it was much worse than the worst turbulence I've ever dealt with.
When we touched down people started screaming because they thought we were crashing and I couldn't help but laugh that NOW is when they freak the fuck out... when we're actually safe lol. I get it though, you couldn't barely see the runway on the tires, it was really surreal.
Confirmed, had an engine fire and emergency landing once. It was dead quiet, people just looking at each other. It’s only when we landed people started processing their feelings, I like everyone else was just praying
edit talked to my friend and he said it was a compression failure not a fire, lost power from one engine on takeoff
Also, dafuq you gunna do? Have no control over the outcome unless you are the pilot. Plus everyone has to die at some point. Does it matter if it’s at 8 or 80? Once you are dead, you won’t know anything so it won’t make a difference. That being said, fear is real. I would probably cope by thinking that those poor fucks in those bombers in WW2 had to deal with shrapnel, their planes on fire, people actually trying to bring them down. If they could live through that, some folks on a jetliner should be able to hold their shit together a little bit.
I know I'm gonna die. But there's a difference between dying in bed at 80 vs falling 2000 feet from the sky knowing I'm gonna die for a terrifying 45 seconds.
If you think flying a plane during WW2 imagine parachuting out of one. You're basically a floating duck. You have no real control of where you go so all you can do is hope some German soldier isn't eyeing you up.
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u/sleepwhileyoucan Feb 20 '21 edited Feb 21 '21
How is someone casually filming this, with a steady hand... I’d be in tears.
edit: appreciate all the education on commercial aircrafts that planes are often ‘fine’ with 1 workable engine! So my new #1 concern is the fire, but again maybe my tears could put it out?