[Gamecock]

[SIDENET]

“Hold my vodka.”

[bmwcyle]

When ego kills.

[Sequoyah101]

Many Russians appear to be absolutely raving lunatics. In one of the cars on ice youtube specials you see them one after another turning a corner to go down a hill and pile up. They just keep doing the same thing over and over.

[Blue Jays]

"...draw the curtains on the cockpit windows..."

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Unsure why an airplane would ever need the windows to be completely obscured.

[V_TWIN]

“killing 70 of the 94 souls on board.”

Unbelievably tragic and unnecessary loss of life.

[varyouga]

“Landing blind” is not unusual for modern instrumented airports or modern GPS systems. You can see it all day long when very foggy.

I suspect these jokers were trying to land blind on a strip where visual guidance is required. Doh

[Red Badger]

Russia has rednecks, too, I see..................

[bubbacluck]

So they pulled a Crazy Ivan maneuver.

[Conan the Librarian]

There is a reason that they call it “Air Flop”

[real saxophonist]

Last year after breaking my leg, I spent some time in a nursing home/ rehab center. One of the residents was a 94 year old former airline pilot.

Out of curiosity, I did a little research on him, and found out he was the captain of National Airlines Flight 193, which did a 'controlled flight into terrain', killing three people. Flew a 727 right into the Gulf of Mexico.

They were doing a night instrument approach, and apparently didn't have the altimeter set properly, and thought they were 1000 feet higher than they actually were. Pretty sure that was the end of his flying career.

[ASOC]

I have a t-short that says

“I flew on Aeroflot
and Survived

Spent a summer working in the rural parts of the old Soviet in 1995.

I will never go back. Interesting people - yes. Interesting country - No.

[MarMema]

Eight years later, in 1994, the pilot of Aeroflot flight SU593 from Moscow to Hong Kong allowed his 16 year old son sit at the controls.

Was flying around Russia quite a bit in those years. Lotsa Aeroflot time.

[editor-surveyor]

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This is why I always fly Aeroflot...