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To: BenLurkin

This is immensely sad. There’s nobody living who can tell you why the 13-year-old was driving the truck.

Reminds me of the story about 25 years ago when a Russian commercial plane took off for Moscow on a routine trip to Vladivostok. During the long trip, the co-captain decided to bring his teenaged daughter and son into the cockpit so they could see what their father did.

He asked the kids if they wanted to fly the plane themselves, knowing that the plane was under the automatic pilot that would correct for any errors. The daughter tried first and she nervously tried to move the controls but very gently and cautiously.

Then the son, who was a little older, tried next. He’d yank the controls and the auto-pilot would straighten it right back. However, he brushed the autopilot control with one of his turns and it accidentally turned off the autopilot.

There was a brief time when nobody knew what had happened. Soon, the plane spun into a roll. The g-forces were so strong that nobody could reach the controls except the son who was traumatized by the experience. At some point, the real pilots regained control but, still unaware the autopilot was off, watched as it resumed its roll until it corkscrewed into the Siberian mountains. All aboard were killed. It was only the flight recorders which revealed what happened.

Who do you blame? Well, obviously the parent but the parent had paid the ultimate price as did his kin.

Very sad for all involved on the golf team. May they rest in peace.


30 posted on 03/17/2022 5:55:15 PM PDT by OrangeHoof ("Rust" may be the first movie where the blooper reel gets more viewings than the actual film.)
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To: OrangeHoof

Interesting re: Russian pilot. Unprofessional (and fatal) to the max.


38 posted on 03/17/2022 7:03:45 PM PDT by avenir (Information overload = Pattern recognition)
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