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Presumably it helped that they crashed into a thick pile of snow in freezing conditions - I imagine that would slow the spread of the fire. But still, that’s astonishing footage in the Reddit post linked above. Incredible that no one died.
All that snow is going to do next to a jet fuel fire is create a lot of steam.
There's a reason water is used for firefighting.
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The US Forest Service also banned firefighting foam in parks or anywhere where endangered species are found. Now that they're defunded I bet we're gonna get a lot more of that stuff everywhere
Don’t forget OSHA. Those chemicals and nomex turnout gear are a source of elevated cancers in firefighters.
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Dude, this happened in Toronto, Canada.
Yea. Totally man. A country in which I am a citizen. But an American airline and in a time where aspects of society are trying to deregulate everything. (maybe I should qualify all of my internet comments that I spent 29 years in the US, then 18 years in Canada, and now like 2 years back in the US. Would that help?)
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Per mine and per hour flying is still much safer than driving
Retention of agency carries a benefit you’re not calculating
Add in all of the _other_ drivers on the road (compared to professional pilots in controlled spaces), and it's not even close.
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It can aid pilots, for one thing. I watch air-safety/accident-analysis videos all the time. They are often extremely informative and promote a safety-oriented mindset and the refreshment of one's commitment to procedure. I also read scuba-diving accident reports. They reinforce best practices that I also explain to others in the context of what I've seen in said reports over and over.
Watching the various yt vids with pilots etc, I am considerably less anxious about flying.
It's mystifying that any airport with commercial service doesn't have cameras with a full view of every runway recording 100% of the time. You can't steal a catalytic converter without being on video. We have webcams placed behind eagles' nests in our national parks. Yet somehow we have no recordings of plane crashes at our airports. Then of course there's the lack of cameras on the planes themselves...
It happens to be that another pilot from a plane waiting to take off form the very same runway was filming the approach [1]. Purely by chance we have HD footage. It does make a huge difference and I agree with the sentiment that this would make flying safer. [1] https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGNgCI0MC68/
Clear view from the plane waiting to take off https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/1isabt... Which also brings into mind cockpit distractions but its amazing they caught this on video.