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Or will they get picked up by those little cars and pulled right after landing?
How in the world would any common Russian trust an airplane in this current sanctioned state in Russia and fly in one?! Are people that brainwashed to trust their leader to get on a plane that doesn’t have brakes?!
Not in war. Not in peace. Not in travel. Not in home.
Most Western countries obsess about proventing deaths. The USA does as well, except among poor people and gun victims.
How in the world would any common Russian trust an airplane in this current sanctioned state in Russia and fly in one?! Are people that brainwashed to trust their leader to get on a plane that doesn’t have brakes?!
Story from a friend. Once, flying on a Russian domestic airline flight, they noticed something like a little shrine at the back. Some black and white photos, flowers, mementos. They asked the cabin crew about it. Response was, well, the plane had crashed once, killing some people on board, including some staff. So they are commemorated here. But the plane is fine. Anecdote aside, it's fair to say Russia has a somewha…
How in the world would any common Russian trust an airplane in this current sanctioned state in Russia and fly in one?! Are people that brainwashed to trust their leader to get on a plane that doesn’t have brakes?!
1. What are the alternatives? Spend five days traveling by rail?
2. It's probably still safer, per mile traveled, than my driving commute, and I don't give climbing into a car a second thought.
Luckily planes never have to land with an engine out. Oh, wait...
How in the world would any common Russian trust an airplane in this current sanctioned state in Russia and fly in one?! Are people that brainwashed to trust their leader to get on a plane that doesn’t have brakes?!
Government says it’s ok, so it must be ok. That’s all people think.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
(Replying to a comment saying that western sanctions will cause deaths of Russian civilians.) No, the blame will lie with Russian regulators and airlines. Russian civilians can take the bus.
But what if the bus is even more dangerous? :-)
Remember: This is a country that projects itself as a technological soon-to-be-world-leader while it's actually a glorified gas stop with nukes that USSR era scientists/technologists built using stolen US tech well before the brain drain of the 90s and onwards.
How in the world would any common Russian trust an airplane in this current sanctioned state in Russia and fly in one?! Are people that brainwashed to trust their leader to get on a plane that doesn’t have brakes?!