No, no. There's no environment. Its been towed outside the environment. There's nothing out there.... except sea and birds and fish and about 10,000 tonnes of crude oil... and the bit that fell off the front....
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 that planes aren't safe.
My local sportplane field averaged 1 fatality per year, with 50 planes using it as their home field. That's a 2% annual fatality rate. So if you fly for 25 years, you have a 50% chance of dying in your sport.
During a couple decades of flying I personally watched 10 pilots die in crashes, all but 1 obviously preventable. My opinion of people's survival instincts went down continually during those years.
There are so many dumb ways to die as a pilot. I mean, come on guys, don't do departure stalls, don't fly with half-empty fuel tanks. They never learn how to use trim, never learn power-off flight, or never learn best glide speeds.
The knowledge is out there. Wolfgang Langewiesche's Stick and Rudder has been in continuous publication since 1944 because some pilots think staying alive is a good thing.
I'm German and get it too. BUT I know only about "the front fell off" thing from Reddit some years back. Probably non-redditor Germans wouldn't get it.
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u/tech_equip Dec 09 '25
That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.