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r/nextfuckinglevel • u/-rbbt • 26d ago
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How does this happen? Is this true for smaller planes only?
17 u/crazy_cookie123 26d ago Planes stay in the air because of the wings, and the wings don't suddenly disappear when you lose your engines. Planes can glide for quite a while when they lose power provided they have enough altitude. 1 u/brunaBla 26d ago Thank you for your answer. I guess I was picturing 747 head on plane crashes and wondered why they couldn’t glide too? But I’m sure a lot of other factors were at play too 3 u/alabomb 25d ago To add on to the other answers, here's a famous example of a passenger aircraft in a similar situation to the video in the OP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider 2 u/proton_badger 25d ago The Mayday series have a great episode on that. I think it’s on Tubi.tv.
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Planes stay in the air because of the wings, and the wings don't suddenly disappear when you lose your engines. Planes can glide for quite a while when they lose power provided they have enough altitude.
1 u/brunaBla 26d ago Thank you for your answer. I guess I was picturing 747 head on plane crashes and wondered why they couldn’t glide too? But I’m sure a lot of other factors were at play too 3 u/alabomb 25d ago To add on to the other answers, here's a famous example of a passenger aircraft in a similar situation to the video in the OP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider 2 u/proton_badger 25d ago The Mayday series have a great episode on that. I think it’s on Tubi.tv.
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Thank you for your answer.
I guess I was picturing 747 head on plane crashes and wondered why they couldn’t glide too? But I’m sure a lot of other factors were at play too
3 u/alabomb 25d ago To add on to the other answers, here's a famous example of a passenger aircraft in a similar situation to the video in the OP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider 2 u/proton_badger 25d ago The Mayday series have a great episode on that. I think it’s on Tubi.tv.
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To add on to the other answers, here's a famous example of a passenger aircraft in a similar situation to the video in the OP:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
2 u/proton_badger 25d ago The Mayday series have a great episode on that. I think it’s on Tubi.tv.
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The Mayday series have a great episode on that. I think it’s on Tubi.tv.
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u/brunaBla 26d ago
How does this happen? Is this true for smaller planes only?