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twilit-tragedy · 5 days ago

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Occasionally, I hear about an airplane accident and have to scour the wikipedia page for it. I blame it on my uncle and that history channel(?) show about said accidents.

Anyway, in the deadliest accident in Portuguese territory (Independant Air 1851, in 1989), 1) the plane smacked right into a mountain (crew error), 2) killed everyone on board, and 3) apparently spread metal and body parts all over said mountain. Oh, joy.

This was in Santa Maria, Azores. The second deadliest was TAP 425 (in 1977) in Madeira. Bad weather + crew error + short runway. The plane hydroplaned straight out of the runway, fell off a 61 m cliff onto the beach and caught fire. They've since extended the runway... What I've learned from this is that airports in mountainous areas are risky business... Perhaps Portela is a breeze to land on, idk.

#twilit posts #oh independent air went under because of that accident #it was the third (and biggest) plane to hit that exact mountain #they've placed memorials in the area... :(#i'm not particularly afraid of flying. i'm mostly fascinated by the knowledge needed to make air travel work #and i have to know what went wrong in these cases #pressure. wind speed. the entire business of CONTROLLING the damn plane #it seems flight crew are also humans... who make more errors the more tired they are... who knew #in cases without shitty weather it seems mostly inexperience and flawed training are to blame most of the time #then the company loses a fuckton in settlements #i started out reading about an american accident but ended up on the page for flights that ran off the runway and found that TAP one #so. yeah. idk. next time your pilot successfully stops the plane upon landing give him a clap or two lol

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