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

[Jean Claude Vaaldamme]

99.999 % of the fight is at an altitude where there is zero chance of reccovery.

Yes, it is pointless. The aviation authority will determine if there is a problem and its not safe.
We are just painlessly bickering.

firstly if there was a sudden 20-30m drop in altitude there would be a chance of saving all the way except over and just before the stadium.
Secondly even if there was zero chance, they would have hit the ocean most of the the flight and just killing the three of them not thousands in the stadium.
Thats the whole point.

 

[konfab]

Why? 911 was a terrorist attack on a country not a airline disaster. The worst airline disaster killed something like 580 people. If that plane went into the stadium it would not only surpassed that, it probably would be way more than all the deaths of 911 too.

It is like 911 times 100.

 

[ShaunSA]

If they crashed into the stadium, South Africa would probably be the holder of the record for worst aviation crash in history.
Seems these 30%ters supporting the cowboy moves don't understand things like this.

The drama!

Besides there's nothing wrong with being a world record holder

 

[Neuk_]

The drama!

Besides there's nothing wrong with being a world record holder

 

[Jean Claude Vaaldamme]

The drama!

Besides there's nothing wrong with being a world record holder

When I read you and other's comments I cant help to think about spectators watching a leaking gas tanker burn.

 

[ShaunSA]

When I read you and other's comments I cant help to think about spectators watching a leaking gas tanker burn.

The only thing leaking is your brain

/grabs chair and takes ringside seat

 

[Neuk_]

When I read you and other's comments I cant help to think about spectators watching a leaking gas tanker burn.

Which comments of mine are you referring to?

 

[JustJack]

 

[ShaunSA]

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The bright colours are going to trigger the loons again

 

[Dave]

/grabs chair and takes ringside seat

Get away from his ring, you dirty pervert!

 

[Iamn0tageek]

ag man always someone who moans about something

 

[RedViking]

There is many things that can go wrong in an airplane, not just a bird strike, mechanical, weather etc. Surely its not difficult to understand that if something happen and you suddenly lose power/altitude or whatever. If you 15m from a stadium roof you don;t have much chance of recovery, but if you 50 or 100m you have a way better chance.

I don't even know why we have these discussions on all these threads. It should be common sense.

If so many things could go wrong. They should not put passengers on the planes.
It is probably one of the safest and most reliable stunts in the world. It is not like they were flying a Boeing.

 

[RedViking]

List of Embraer aircraft accidents

Embraer - List of accidents involving airplane manufactured by Embraer since year 2000 : the list gives access to the events analysis, reports and photos.

www.1001crash.com

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List of Boeing aircraft accidents

Boeing - List of accidents involving airplane manufactured by Boeing since year 2000 : the list gives access to the events analysis, reports and photos.

www.1001crash.com

 

[OutlawJoseyWales]

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"

Don't be silly.

Do you know how many airshow disasters have happened over the years. So many, and they were all planned and rehearsed.

And those planes are far more maneuverable than giant titanics with wings.

It was dangerous and reckless, especially with two of them.

 

[Jean Claude Vaaldamme]

If so many things could go wrong. They should not put passengers on the planes.
It is probably one of the safest and most reliable stunts in the world. It is not like they were flying a Boeing.

Jassis look at this oke not even understanding why people from all over the world are questioning this flyover and not any other over the years.
It seems you are bored and just wanted to post something without thinking.

 

[RedViking]

Jassis look at this oke not even understanding why people from all over the world are questioning this flyover and not any other over the years.
It seems you are bored and just wanted to post something without thinking.

Ditto

 

[Heisenborg]

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Bit rainbow'ish for me. Trump wont like this

 

[Dave]

List of Embraer aircraft accidents

Embraer - List of accidents involving airplane manufactured by Embraer since year 2000 : the list gives access to the events analysis, reports and photos.

www.1001crash.com

15

Vs

108

List of Boeing aircraft accidents

Boeing - List of accidents involving airplane manufactured by Boeing since year 2000 : the list gives access to the events analysis, reports and photos.

www.1001crash.com

Now do a comparison between the number of Embraer aircraft versus Boeing aircraft that were flying commercially over that time period…

 

[RedViking]

Now do a comparison between the number of Embraer aircraft versus Boeing aircraft that were flying commercially over that time period…

That's asking a bit much. You do the comparison and let me know. My AI is broken.

Thread 'ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini experience outages in South Africa'

Thursday at 5:32 PM

ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini experience outages in South Africa

South Africans experienced challenges using Anthropic's Claude, Google Gemini, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and X's Grok on Thursday, 3 September 2026.

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[Dave]

That's asking a bit much. You do the comparison and let me know. My AI is broken.

Embraer fifty twelve
Boeing eleventy million and two