#aviation disaster

[boymanmaletheshequel]

Reports are coming in of a midair collision over Reagan national airport in Washington DC between a D60 Pavehawk military helicopter and an American Airlines flight inbound from wichita. Both aircraft have crashed into the Potomac river. It is being said that the American flight was carrying 64 passengers and crew, and that the D60 was carrying 3 service members. As of now, all are believed deceased. This is just days after Donald trump fired the heads of staff at TSA, and disbanded the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, or ASAC. It is because of the defunding of critical government services like this by trump that more accidents like this will continue to happen. My heart is with the families of all who are likely dead, and I am both mournful and fascinated to see what the subsequent investigation reveals.

[raw-meat-4861]

Today its the anniversary..

A japan Airlines Airbus A350 collided with a Coast Guard Dash 8..

5 people died in the dash 8 while only 1 survived with injuries.

Surprisingly all of the passengers on the JAL plane escaped and no injuries!!

So atleast its been 1 year since this crash atleast..

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"MELVIN VANIMAN AND CREW, KILLED IN AIRSHIP EXPLOSION," Kingston Daily Standard. July 6, 1912. Page 1. ---- top picture: MELVIN VANIMAN AND THE CREW OF THE AKRON

Middle left: THE AKRON Right: FRAGMENTS OF BALLOON FALLING AFTER EXPLOSION

Melvin Vaniman, with his brother and three other members of the crew, was dashed to death when the dirigible balloon Akron exploded and fell into the sea during a flight at Atlantic City, N. J. The accident was witnessed by Mrs. Vaniman and thousands of spectators who lined the shore. None aboard the giant airship survived to tell how it was torn to shreds and junk in an instant.

[baskeigh-ball]

Leonardo's off-handed assignment for Donnie to be the referee may have been taken more seriously than intended

they're gonna have to pry this power trip from his cold dead hands

(i promise I'll get back to regular AU stuff but this competition has been so fun to think about ever since it became an interdimensional basketball tournament lmao)

@tmntaucompetition

[enriquemzn262]

28 of December 2024, a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 has crashed after an unsuccessful emergency landing in Muan, South Korea, reports state that 28 out of 181 onboard died in the crash.

The cause seems to be a bird strike after takeoff, but no further detail is known as of now.

[hellyeahgeorgekennedy]

Alain Delon, David Warner, Sybil Danning, Eddie Albert, and George Kennedy joking around on the set of Airport '79 (1979)

[pedroam-bang]

Chernobyl (2019)

[that-starlight-prince]

People love overreacting to things that happen. It's one of their favorite things to do

[captain-price-unofficially]

POV of a passenger aboard Japan Air Flight 516 as the A350 skids along the tarmac after crashing into a Japan Coast Guard Dash 8 at Haneda Airport, 2 Jan 2023

[leeshajoy]

Since Bandcamp Friday is starting up again tomorrow, I thought I'd start a recommendations thread for bands and artists who have their music available for purchase through the service.

Charming Disaster - goth folk rock that sounds like what you'd get if Gomez and Morticia Addams had started a band instead of a family.

Aviators - Synthpop inspired by video games and genre fiction.

The Blasting Company - the band responsible for the soundtrack to Over the Garden Wall. Yes, they do other things too!

Jesse Dangerously - lyrically dense queer nerdcore rap from one of the pioneers of the genre.

Big Giant Circles - upbeat chiptunes from and inspired by video games. If you're a fan of LoadingReadyRun, you've heard BGC before.

Reblog and add some of your favorites!

[justnoodlefishthings]

does anybody else think about how there was a horrible passenger plane crash in New York City on Nov 12 2001 but it's largely forgotten by history because 9/11 had happened just a month prior

[boymanmaletheshequel]

Regarding the disaster in DC, id like to kindly suggest that the “free thinkers” on tik tok currently offering their unsolicited two cent conspiracy theories shut the FUCK up. Jesus Christ this country is so fucking cooked. The bodies of the dead haven’t even floated to the surface of the Potomac yet and your instinctual response is to posit some fucking Neanderthal drivel theory about how it was an inside job? The families of nearly 70 dead people are flooding call centers and learning of the death of their brother, wife, friend, son, etc, and your response is to fucking spew Q-anon sewage out of your rotten mouth? No wonder trump fucking won. Truly and unequivocally Embarrassing. Fucking hell.

[darkersolstice]

Is it part of my Autism Package™ that I really like post-mortems? Like, for large events, I want to break down and talk over the good, the bad and the ugly, and until I've done so, I won't feel complete in the experience.

Perhaps for similar reasons, I really like videos and podcasts about disasters. Air disasters, engineering failures, nuclear contamination events, scams and swindles. If you want to sit me down for an hour and talk about a situation and what the points of failure were that led to it, I will be happy as a pig in shit.

It isn't necessarily that such things are a special interest, it's the type of information that really makes me happy. The best air disaster podcasts take an eye to the findings and the 'how was aviation changed for the better after this?', and like. I want the same for events in my real life. I want conventions to be improved year on year based on observations and feedback and collected knowledge about points of failure. I want The Big Work Events to improve and to talk about where the pain points are.

Sometimes people see me as a negative person for really wanting to chew on things like that, though.

[njwinterquartz]

All I’m gonna say is if they put Marisol in that brief little scene in 7x01 (outside of the fact Eddie mentioned her at the start of the episode), I feel it’s pretty safe to say we’ll get at least a little scene with Tommy in it in 8x01. Like it probably won’t be much but in all likelihood he’ll be in it to be like “hey remember me general audience”.

Plus if we do get some flashbacks to fill in the time between the end of last season and the start of this season, again safe to say he’ll probably be there too. And remember Tim did say they were still getting go know each other so that probably means we’ll see some of that on screen. Because we the audience also need to learn more about who Tommy is and what easier way is there than have it be because Buck is learning about him.

[depizan]

I love non-disaster air disasters--situations where something went wrong (sometimes very wrong), but through a mix of effort, good flying, and luck, everything turned out okay.

British Airways Flight 5390, TACA 110, the Gimli Glider, British Airways 009, the Miracle on the Hudson, etc...

They're all good reminders that it's just as realistic for people to pull off the improbable or unlikely and save a bad situation as it is for a bad situation to end in tragedy. And, like all air disasters, they're also a reminder that disaster is usually a whole string of things going wrong, and it frequently just takes one thing in that string going right for it to turn out not a disaster instead.

[sag-dab-sar]

I'm so depressed and I don't know what to do.

I checked my meds and I haven't missed The Important™ one, nor have I taken too much of The Problematic™ one.

I feel like its impossible for religion to be real.

Like my country is as good as dead in terms of human rights.

I won't know what to do when my caregiver can no longer help.

I'm not even in too much pain rn, I'm almost 100% healed from my surgery.

Even my cope day dreaming is just paradoxically causing anxiety.

I just want to sleep and never wake up.