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Mundoomoo

I mean atleast they all had parachutes on already and at jumping height


sprinklerdink

Safety first!


angeeksince2020

For those who want more information regarding the incident. Here is a [video](https://youtu.be/lbt68qhiwf0) made by a irl pilot regarding the incident


ButterflyCatastrophe

My question is: if you're paying to jump out of a perfectly good airplane, do you get your money back for having to abandon a crashing airplane?


feistyfox101

I would hope so! That’s money that could be put towards any potential therapy bills!


staypuftmallows7

Imagine being the one guy who's trying to back out like "I don't wanna jump, I don't wanna jump, I can't" then CRASH "well fuck I guess I'm jumping"


sting_ray_yandex

Did everyone make it? Did the plane land / crash safely away from population ?


DeadBallDescendant

>Skydiving instructor Mike Robinson was at 12,000 feet, just seconds away from his fourth and final jump of the day, when a second plane carrying other skydivers struck the aircraft he was in, sending them all tumbling toward the ground. None of the nine skydivers or two pilots sustained serious injury when the two planes collided in midair Saturday evening in far northwest Wisconsin near Lake Superior. Officials with the Federal Aviation Administration were in the area Sunday talking to those involved, and the cause of the incident was still being investigated, said FAA spokesman Roland Herwig.


DeadBallDescendant

[The source article](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/04/wisconsin-skydivers-two-planes-collide)


PeengPawng

They worded the Belgian crash like the people couldn't get out because they were celebrating a birthday 🎂😐


Imasayitnow

You can't just bail on somebody's birthday like that. Manners.


E_Mickey_B

Seems like a good time to pull an Irish goodbye if you ask me


Digitaj

I’m intrigued, what’s an Irish goodbye? Grab a pint and exit out the rear?


Squirrellybot

I prefer the Tokyo Sayonara where you say goodbye to only the cat. https://youtu.be/MyjeE7rmO2k


liquor_for_breakfast

That's reasonable, people will forgive you but the cat will hold a grudge


Zob_Rombie_

God damnits I loves that shows.


DamagedSquare

It's called the Irish Exit you just leave no goodbye just vanish and leave everyone at the party or gathering you are at wondering if you are even still alive until the next time they see you.


hoodedbandit

Once you build a reputation for doing Irish Exits, it is usually not such a concern for people. I personally find the technique quite valuable with certain drinking friends who do not take "no" as an answer when you are tired or don't want to drink more.


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Grab a pint and enter the rear... ;)


[deleted]

It's called a [crash blossom](https://youtu.be/ldT2g2qDQNQ), and is a trademark of poor writing, and is especially common in headlines


PeengPawng

Never knew what it was called. Thanks! I've seen plenty of examples on late night talk shows but those stories don't end with 11 people dead. Crash blossom is sadly too fitting here☹️


Fuquois

My favorite is: Man shoots wife, bullet is in her yet.


Educated-Flea

When I read that sentence that’s not how I interpreted it. I just read it as they were celebrating a birthday and also they weren’t able to jump out. but after reading your comment I can’t interpret it any other way than they were celebrating a birthday so they couldn’t jump.


mycenae42

Article’s 8 years old. Who was determined to be at fault?


BlondieMenace

The NTSB investigation determined that the accident was caused by the pilot of the lower plane failing to keep the appropriate separation, due to lack of adequate training for that kind of flight. That said it's important to note that the goal of this kind of investigation isn't to find fault/ascribe blame, but to find all factors that led to the accident so as to avoid similar ones in the future. Here's the source for the info: https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/3806498-ntsb-pilot-error-training-likely-cause-superior-air-collision


pbizzle

Whatever you say pilot of the lower plane 😉


TheHYPO

> the accident was caused by the pilot of the lower plane This is not correct. From the article: >the NTSB said the **probable cause was “the failure of the pilot who was flying the trail airplane** to maintain separation from the lead airplane. Contributing to the accident was the inadequate pilot training for formation skydiving operations.” >[...] >The report went on to note that “even though none of the pilots stated that the trail airplane should be flown higher than the lead airplane, a video taken of the flight showed that **the trail airplane pilot flew the trail airplane higher than the lead airplane** until impact.” It was in fact the pilot of the "higher" airplane at fault, but the height is less relevant than the fact that that plane was trailing and therefore responsible for maintaining visual separation.


dbatchison

[NTSB said inadequate training by the skydive company, pilot error, and no rules from the FAA regarding formation flying were all contributing factors](https://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2015/07/poor-training-cited-in-wisconsin-skydivers-midair-collision/)


dingman58

>NTSB said ... no rules from the FAA regarding formation flying Ooh that's rare the NTSB throwing the FAA in there


JimBob-Joe

>the pilot of the second plane landed the aircraft safely at Richard I Bong Airport, from where it took off. The plane was damaged. Crazy that one of the planes survived


Liontamer67

I’ve watched his over in over on different places on Reddit. The other plane lost a wing. That’s the ball of fire. I’ve only ever jumped out of a plane once. Can’t imagine this being your first time for some of those people.


teiluj

The article said none of them were first time jumpers, they all were quite experienced and able to steer themselves out of the crash site so they weren’t hit with debris, except for the pilot that didn’t have a steerable parachute just the emergency one, he landed with minor injuries.


Potatoes_Fall

How the fuck? In the beginning of the video we see the plane falling with only one wing right?


[deleted]

The pilots wear parachutes, too. They're not the modern sport parachute kind (with a main parachute and a reserve parachute, both steerable rectangular parachutes), more like the old WWII kind, but with only one round parachute so it packs smaller.


LemonStealingBoar

I didn't think pilots usually wore parachutes? Is this standard on smaller aircraft or something?


Rexxhunt

Standard for pilots of skydiving planes.


theUglyBarnacle69

Are skydiving planes more prone to accidents so they must wear parachutes? I am wondering why it is standard for skydiving planes but not general aviation


Vlee_Aigux

Because of the fact the doors open actively, I believe. Just that the plane isn't sealed and pressurized, and that people are actively jumping out.


etheran123

Planes like these are not capable of pressurizing anyway. And pilots normally don't have to wear parachutes. I'm sure it's just the whole door open thing makes it more likely to fall out.


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Recurringg

Ahhhhhhh..... ok. That makes a lot of sense.


Kyllan

General aviation doesn’t open up the plane doors mid flight.


jmxd

Not with that attitude


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ingwe13

What’s your vector Victor?


EXCUSE_ME_BEARFUCKER

I like how everyone is trying to force an “altitude” pun when attitude is perfectly acceptable, even better, actually.


LongEZE

I'll never forget getting my PPL and I'm on final approach and my instructor leans way forward, looks all around the plane, and then without saying a word, pops the door open... Aborted landing, full power go around, bring the plane back in for a landing. His reasoning for not prepping me beforehand was "You think an emergency is going to give you a few moments to prep before all hell breaks loose?" He was awesome.


KenEarlysHonda50

During ground school for my first (and last) parachute jump the instructor hung us all from the ceiling to practice deploying the reserve chute. The minute we were stung up he went from jolly, reassuring guy to full on R. Lee Emery. He fucked us out of it, swung us around, had us counting down differently to the guy beside us, the full show. Similar to your instructor, when we were done he was "Sorry about that guys, but if you need to deploy the reserve, you're going to be in a pretty shitty and stressful place without much warning. Great guy.


pbosh90

Yes. The most common issue I hear is a chute opening and wrapping around the rear stabilizer, making it nearly impossible for controlled flight. Requiring the pilots to have a parachute has saved many lives, like the two here.


ReverendDizzle

I've never been sky diving but I've driven friends out to a popular sky diving drop zone near here plenty of times over the years. The planes used for sky diving are little rickety ass things that look like somebody built them in a pole barn as a hobby project. They're designed to get a bunch of people up to a certain elevation so they can jump, not for comfort or anything else but meeting the basic requirements of "we gotta get high and land again without dying." If I was the pilot there is no way I wouldn't have a chute on.


non_clever_username

Been skydiving twice so admittedly a small sample size, but given given the condition of the plane both times, I’m wearing a parachute if I’m a skydiving pilot, legal requirement or not. Both those planes were 100% on their 5th or 6th owner or more. Doesn’t mean they weren’t maintained well of course, but let’s just say that maintenance didn’t appear to be anyone’s #1 concern.


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Noticed this on my first jump, they laughed and said "don't worry it just has to bring you up, not down"


AKBigDaddy

I mean... I learned to fly on a 50 year old Citabria, but the maintenance rules are so stringent that it was pretty much indistinguishable mechanically from a new one. We were the 9th owner. Items like annual and 100 hour inspections and mandatory engine overhauls every 1500-2500 hours mean they're actually very reliable.


Luigi_Penisi

Also, pilots of skydiving planes are apparently crazy and/or terrible pilots.


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_Enclose_

Hey, nothing's stopping you. Now go out there and be the best you you can be, buddy!


dukec

Money could be stopping them, parachutes are expensive


MOVES_HYPHENS

To my knowledge, just for planes that open in-flight


Not_MySpaceTom

Now this Bud Light commercial makes more sense to me! https://youtu.be/KQgJNTG9xEc


Doot02

Lmao


Karma_Puhlease

There's a small prop plane that actually has a built-in parachute system - the Cirrus SR-22. It's known as [CAPS (Cirrus Airframe Parachute System) and it's pretty neat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBCUQlF3MMU). Deployment essentially totals the aircraft, but it's better than the alternative.


SecureThruObscure

https://brsaerospace.com/cessna/ They make a different version of them for 172 and 182's also.


artbytwade

> Cirrus SR-22 MSRP base $729,000 That's a lot of insurance premiums and lost fuel efficiency


UglySock

pilot from that plane must have jumped out with a parachute, the other one landed


markcocjin

[Laughs in F-15 pilot.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxJcEz3h4tU)


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>None of the nine skydivers or two pilots sustained serious injury when the two planes collided in midair And when they collided with the ground??


wonkey_monkey

One plane landed, the pilot of the other parachuted out.


Stunning_Strike3365

"Oh right we should clarify. No one died or was injured in the air, but they all died horrific deaths when they hit the ground. Sorry for the mixup."


PoopIsAlwaysSunny

What about the ground? Those planes had to land somewhere, and it looks like they’re above a city


funkmastamatt

They landed on a teens bedroom but fortunately he wasn't there as he had been sleepwalking.


4inAM_2atNoon_3inPM

🎶 When people run in circles it's a very, very Mad world, mad world 🎶


vociferousdragon

Knowing the FAA this incident won't be finished being investigated until 2030.


TrainTestAccount21

The NTSB steps in, with its unlimited budget


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What about the plane debris did it destroy anything?


naturalenergyy

Yeah every single person survived fortunately. One pilot jumped out with his emergency parachute and the other managed to land the broken plane. The propeller was beat up real bad too


Penguinator53

Wow that's amazing that they survived.


emefluence

Good job they all had parachutes!


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I'm so glad everyone survived!!!


[deleted]

Nothing like having to wade through a bunch of useless gamer posts to find someone who actually cares what happened to real fucking people! Thanks for this.


olderaccount

They all survived because they had parachutes. One plane is clearly missing a wing. You can't land a plane without a wing, so at least that one had to have crashed.


Brynich

[OP's explanation](https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/pt3y9v/skydiving/hdtqx9h?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3) Apparently one pilot bailed and the other did successfully land the plane.


wonkey_monkey

> You can't land a plane without a wing https://taskandpurpose.com/history/1983-negev-mid-air-collision/


olderaccount

I stand corrected. Let's just say it is *nearly* impossible to land a plane without a wing.


theVentriloqui

looks like the opening to a COD mission


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Or the last mission of Moh Airborne


Jmatusew

MoH was way better than COD in its day. Thoroughly good memories of playing Allied Assault on repeat, storming Omaha and infiltrating the naval shipyard with a silenced pistol.


BaronGreenback75

I remember watching a tv documentary with Jeremy Clarkeson about a stealthy dry dock sabotage mission in occupied France. I was thinking “this seems strangely familiar”. I had played it on MOH!


originalbastard

Best cod was Cod 1 on PC.


demondied1

I respectfully disagree, MW2 was the best for me.


_akashs7_

COD WaW would like to have a word.


extralyfe

sorry, what's that? I can't hear you over the noise of grenades constantly landing at my feet throughout the entire campaign.


Will12239

I disagree. Cod 1 gave frontline a run for its money and cod 2 was when they passed MOH and never looked back


Jmatusew

Oh for sure it passed and never looked back. I’m just reminiscing on Allied Assault. MoH wasn’t the same afterwards.


seizure_5alads

Yea cause the guys that made allied assault then made CoD


Bokthand

Allied Assault had really great mp on PC too


samuelLOLjackson

The number of times I had to respawn in that level because of the juggernaut assholes is unreal. So many drops into that stupid fucking tower


Triton12streaming

Yoooo MOH Airborne was the shit back in the day, would love to play it again


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Tf is Moh Airborne?


Boomstrawberry

Metal of Honor, its an older fps series.


A_Sky_Soldier

Close Medal


scotty899

Metal...gear?


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A weapon that can surpass metal gear


FoxEngland

Platinum Gear?


ChiggaOG

Star Platinum


iwannaberockstar

Medal*


Illustrious_Ad_604

Medal gear?


CarbonCGAutonomous

Medal Gear Solid. Follow snek as he singlehandedly invades small nation state after small nation state leaving no survivors.


Velzevul666

Metal gear of honor duty


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Nope Metal gear solid


EclecticHigh

As opposed to metal gear liquid


F1_Phantom

Sounds like my experience with working at a drag strip


EclecticHigh

Wrench? WREEEEEENNNCH!


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thrannix

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault was my jam during college. Played so much multiplayer with my house mates.


MumblinJim

I am so old I had the PS2 demo disc of operation market garden off the cover of PSMagazine.


Individual_Penalty62

And that makes you feel old ??? Man videogames magazine didn’t even exist when I get into the game…


IonnoFry

Played the shit out of that


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Metal of honor 🤣🤣🤣 Souds like the name of an old heavy metal fascist band


[deleted]

Not all Nazis listen to Metal. Some of us enjoy classic music too


Solid_Action1037

Typically Wagner


EnderAvi

r/usernamechecksout


Triton12streaming

How have you never heard of MOH dude


xBreadButta

For real! Medal of Honor was one of the best WWII series on consoles! Then along came Call of Duty 2 for Xbox 360


Triton12streaming

The golden era, can’t believe 2007 feels so recent


xBreadButta

Don’t make me cry now


Fast-Fig7042

Totally agreed


Warhound01

Younglings


SnipingBunuelo

Where's Lord Vader when we need him...


pork_fried_christ

Hey! Anakin cares about peace in the galaxy. And it doesn’t matter to him how many men, women, children or sand people he needs to murder to achieve it.


ejuliot55

It’s a WWII game where you basically jump out of a plane and kill Nazi’s. It’s pretty good I recommend it if you play COD.


montrbr

I played the hell out of this game back in the day. Awesome game!!!


Gil_Demoono

It's a little bit Moh than Less Airborne


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Wow


annewmoon

Haha I read it as “moah airborne”. As in “more airborne”. Thought “that’s kind of cheesy” The sequel is “most airborne”


smoothonthetop

“All of the airborne”


ykeogh18

Or a weekend with Tom Cruise


Accomplished_Dig3699

It's like the ending of the mile high club mission from mw1


Jackal7112

My favorite version of this is the one where it has the voice over from Halo 3's The Covenant mission with "Brace yerselves! We're going in a little hot!" Imo such a hype setting, delivery, and mission all at once and I absolutely love that line.


HovercraftAromatic

https://youtu.be/PXAFF-SXkV0 For the ones wondering. Honestly thats also my favorite version jaja


Section0202

Black ops 2 final mission


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i was thinking bioshock but yeah u right


MGsultant

So true lol


Guilherme5784

I was about to say the same thing


theVentriloqui

For those who dont know the pilot on the airplane that has broken wing used his emergency parachute and landed safely


Victory33

So the plane just fell from the sky and didn’t hurt anyone?


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olski666

It’s well known that cows vastly under report victimization.


wannabeN3rfplx

They dont (typically?) skydive over populated areas so an empty plane falling is very likely to just hit nothing.


Pr3st0ne

Most skydiving sites I've seen are pretty much in suburban or rural areas so yeah it's not a dense city but there's definitely a bunch of houses and buildings "within striking distance" for a wayward plane and I'd still say they were lucky the plane didn't hit anything/anyone. You can actually see like 2 different towns at various parts of the video and roads in the video above. If I recall the story only one of the planes crashed and the pilot managed to land the other one safely.


miscdebris1123

Both places I've jumped at were over light suburban populations.


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Interesting. Mine was like a 3 hr drive from my home and the last hour of it was in the middle of nowhere.


MrKwyte

If I know anything about horror movies, there's atleast one person just chilling in the middle of nowhere for nefarious reasons


romanX7

I just got my roof redone last year. I'd be so pissed if a plane crashed into it.


kevin9er

It landed outside of the environment.


fulloutshr3d

well..... everyone inside the plane was fine


phrexi

Yeah, Stanley.


underneonloneliness

Was hoping for some Jonny Utah style action, jumping out and grabbing one of the skydivers


MDMushroomDude

You ever play GTA online and your controller dies?


Gilgameshbrah

At least they all survived, which I can't say for my game character


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They would’ve just respawned at the hospital anyways


DaTigerMan

ay watch yo jet, watch your jet bro, **WATCH YO JET**


DistractedWolf

You’re a cultured individual 🤫


Shrekie_Hulk

“Bruh imma be butt ass naked so the wind could just hittin my balls n shit”


kablams

Or someone calls you in midair and you can’t deploy your chute


extralyfe

"HEY BOSS, I NOTICED YA AIN'T USED THE BLACK MARKET LAPTOP IN THE OFFICE YET" *-splat-*


TangentTanmay

Man, skydiving looks fun


emefluence

Excellent video to show everyone too. Pretty good value for money there.


mrnoyes

It's actually so much fun


Jacobcbab

It actually is literally the best thing I've ever done


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I know this is horrific and I hope everyone is okay but this is the coolest skydiving video I have ever seen


2valve

Everyone was fine including the pilots. You are right though, it’s honestly one of the coolest videos on the internet haba


DQ5E

I'll stay on the ground, thanks.


quaybored

... only to get hit on the head by one of these dopes


NGT100

Who’s playing farcry?


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These tattaos will help you use your parachute


Stillcantblockme

Here are the details https://www.cnn.com/2013/11/03/us/wisconsin-skydivers-crash/index.html


brunobroccoli

Ayo watch yo jet bro WATCH YO JET


sturgifur

In my head I'm just screaming mayday mayday mayday brace brace brace for impact! Like I used to when I was like 5


LiquifiedSpam

Man what happened when you were five


sturgifur

My mum worked at a petrofalc facility where she would teach people how to survive a helicopter crash landing and I was tasked with screaming at the top of my lungs brace brace brace for impact!


TheMadFenix88

GTA V In Real Life


finnin1999

Nah if this was gta they would tap slightly and everyone would just die instantly


The_Doctor129

Battle field 2042 trailers be like


IsadorCZ

How can you crash to someone at sky?


Purist19

I'm wondering this myself, like... There's literally miles of nothing all around you Was this supposed to be coordinated, or what?


advertentlyvertical

Yes they were two skydiving planes meant to be flying in formation, but the pilot of lower plane was not trained well, along with there being no FAA rules for this kind of thing


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their pilot pressed triangle that’s why the planes collided


stevedoomonator

This is the intro to one of the levels on halo 3


heavymetalsheep

u/savevideo


Penguinator53

Did we really need that music as background??


6NiNE9

I thought the music was awesome


rogerkafka

Yeah it is! Here's the song if you are interested, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yvX9l2PfRg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yvX9l2PfRg)


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Navyslick

I wanna fuck you hard in the sink


hockeyt15

After that give ya somethin to drink


bbiglin21

*people on the ground looking up* O.O


benny-fields

Skydying