r/nextfuckinglevel • u/DearEmphasis4488 • 26d ago

Pilot averts disaster by aborting landing at the last moment during a cyclone

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u/berni2905 26d ago

You don't "just change your mind" for no reason in situations like these. You go around if the conditions make continuing the landing too dangerous.

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u/BDiddnt 23d ago

Yes I'm aware… You're missing my point… And I'm willing to bet you're doing it on purpose

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u/berni2905 23d ago

You'd lose the bet then. Enlighten me.

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u/uiucengineer 25d ago

True, but “averting disaster” is unnecessarily dramatic in a way that’s intentionally misleading

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u/daerath 25d ago

Dude, what? No pilot gets feet from touching down and goes, "I'm not feeling it. Pedal to the metal and let's try this again"

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u/uiucengineer 25d ago

Every pilot is prepared to abort until it’s too late to do so. I’m a pilot.

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u/berni2905 25d ago

I mean maybe a bit but it was a kind of a dangerous situation and every time you come out of danger you technically avert a disaster. Had he not aborted the landing, it could have been real bad.

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u/uiucengineer 25d ago

That's why it's true. The reason it's misleading is because it implies that there was some reasonable chance that a disaster would have happened. The reality is quite mundane. It is both technically accurate and misleading.

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u/berni2905 25d ago

I mean... There was a reasonable chance that a disaster would have happened if he didn't "abort the landing at the last moment" like the title says.

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u/uiucengineer 25d ago

That's correct but misleading because it implies there was a reasonable chance they would not have aborted the landing.

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u/86yourhopes_k 25d ago

....if the plan to abort the landing wasn't made at the last moment here the tail end of the plane would have slammed into the ground do to that massive gust of wind, it's not like this was a practice landing or something. He was fully committed to landing, the wind changed, he aborted the landing thus avert the accident.

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u/uiucengineer 25d ago

No, he was fully prepared to abort the landing when did. This is something you learn before you’re allowed to land an airplane for the first time.