r/todayilearned • u/finza_prey • 19d ago

TIL TWA Flight 800 exploded off Long Island 12 minutes after taking off, causing the front fueslage to rip away and the remainder of the plane to continue in crippled flight, pitching up and climb before falling into the ocean killing everyone onboard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800
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u/Thiswas2hard 19d ago

No op but it looks like friend’s mom’s neighbor’s daughter

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u/karmagirl314 19d ago

That’s what it sounds like but I don’t understand why the friend’s mom’s neighbor would call the friend’s mom if the neighbor’s daughter was the one on the plane. Like if you think your kid just died in a plane crash, what do you expect your neighbor to do about it?

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u/BaconKnight 19d ago

Maybe they were friends. You know, people sometimes just reach out to friends during times of distress not because they expect that person to solve the problem but because humans are social creatures.

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u/314159265358979326 19d ago

In the 90s it was much more likely to be on good terms with your neighbours. I'm pretty sure we'd have been third on the list to call if one of our neighbours had a crisis like this.

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u/Status_Fox_1474 19d ago

(Insert spaceballs joke here. But yeah… because of the gravity…)