One bird strike away from disaster — Pilots say South Africa’s world-record flyby was dangerous

[Newsfeed]

One bird strike away from disaster — Pilots say South Africa’s world-record flyby was dangerous

Experienced commercial airline pilots reckon the margin for error with the altitude of Airlink's low flyover on Saturday was just too slim, even for highly experienced pilots.

 

[My_King]

Bruhhhhhhhhhh

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

this is why we cant have nice things all the Karens and Karls of the world going on and on about the Airlink flyover.
soon enough walking down the street, smoking cigarettes will have random Karens yelling at you

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

Bruhhhhhhhhhh

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the algorithm demands blood!

 

[Hemi300c]

But what if there was a terrorist bomb onboard or a earthquake lifted the stadium...............FFS

 

[ToxicBunny]

But what if there was a terrorist bomb onboard or a earthquake lifted the stadium...............FFS

Greenpoint Stadium is literally one bomb away from a mass casualty event the likes of which SA has never seen. You should never ever ever ever ever go there for anything, for your own safety of course.

 

[Smiggles]

Bloody hell just make it a subforum at this stage and get it over with.

 

[FiestaST]

 

[saor]

this is why we cant have nice things all the Karens and Karls of the world going on and on about the Airlink flyover.
soon enough walking down the street, smoking cigarettes will have random Karens yelling at you

You understand that these are pilots responding to an aviation event?

 

[Nerfherder]

One bird strike away from disaster — Pilots say South Africa’s world-record flyby was dangerous

Experienced commercial airline pilots reckon the margin for error with the altitude of Airlink's low flyover on Saturday was just too slim, even for highly experienced pilots.

So if a bird strike happened anywhere else it would be fine ?

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

You understand that these are pilots responding to an aviation event?

you understand that they didn't just on a whim decide to "buzz the tower"
this was planned, coordinated, rehearsed and everything was calculated in advance.

we just live in a society that is not thinking for itself anymore, we just use Ai,
and stunts like this will never happen again cause "reasons"

 

[FiestaST]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2095362850504020277

 

[Johand]

Flyovers like that is the equivalent of reffing your 1998 VW Polo with a broken exhaust thinking you are cool.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

Flyovers like that is the equivalent of reffing your 1998 VW Polo with a broken exhaust thinking you are cool.

yeah a flyover in a glorified bizjet isnt cool, a flyover in a 747/A380 is.

 

[ShaunSA]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2095362850504020277

Thought New Dawner Zap would be out washing feet for his sins by now

 

[The_MAC]

Experienced commercial airline pilots reckon the margin for error with the altitude of Airlink's low flyover on Saturday was just too slim, even for highly experienced pilots.

Sounds like they are a little bit jealous..

 

[Jean Claude Vaaldamme]

So if a bird strike happened anywhere else it would be fine ?

Surely is not to difficult to understand that if something happen(like a bird strike) that you have a much better chance of saving it at 200m than at 15m?
Its never "fine" to drink and drive but driving after you had 1 beer is surely safer than driving after you had 20. Not?

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

fire all these pansy ass pilots immediately!

 

[DarkStarMonday]

What fly over ?

 

[neoprema]

Who are these pilots? I need to know so if they're flying my plane so i can get off because if something goes wrong they gonna be on Instagram crying and identifying as passengers.