Plane Crash Shows

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Does anybody else watch those plane crash documentary shows almost obsessively? They all go by different names (air emergency, mayday, there's another one too, I forgot) but they're all basically the same show. Msnbc used to show them all day long on Saturdays back in the day too, before 9/11.

The most wtf plane crash investigation show was the one where the Russian plane crashed and it was mainly because the pilot let his kid sit in the pilot seat while it was on autopilot. The kid accidentally set off the autopilot and nobody knew because it was a brand new plane that the pilots hadn't had full training on. Because Russia?
 
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sparklemilhouse said:
Does anybody else watch those plane crash documentary shows almost obsessively? They all go by different names (air emergency, mayday, there's another one too, I forgot) but they're all basically the same show. Msnbc used to show them all day long on Saturdays back in the day too, before 9/11.

The most wtf plane crash investigation show was the one where the Russian plane crashed and it was mainly because the pilot let his kid sit in the pilot seat while it was on autopilot. The kid accidentally set off the autopilot and nobody knew because it was a brand new plane that the pilots hadn't had full training on. Because Russia?
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Those pilots were idiots for just letting the kid into the cockpit in the first place. Much less having him sit down in the pilot seat.

I personally like the episodes where the pilots actually manage to get their plane out of serious danger. Remember the episode where the engines were knocked out by volcanic Ash and they were able to maneuver the plane to where they were able to land safely?
 
sparklemilhouse said:
The most wtf plane crash investigation show was the one where the Russian plane crashed and it was mainly because the pilot let his kid sit in the pilot seat while it was on autopilot. The kid accidentally set off the autopilot and nobody knew because it was a brand new plane that the pilots hadn't had full training on. Because Russia?
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Most plane crashes in Russia occur because of capitalism - Russian airline companies frequently cut back on such things as security in favour of profit. It can only be fixed by mass executions strict government control backed with harsh punishments for the culprits... which in practice means mass executions.
I should note that the Soviet Union had plenty of air crashes of its own.
 
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Most plane crashes in Russia occur because of capitalism - Russian airline companies frequently cut back on such things as security in favour of profit.
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In the case of the plane crash, it was that the airline wasn't following airbus' training guidelines for the autopilot.
 
Crashing planes, you say?
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