https://www.thedailybeast.com/two-killed-after-plane-crashes-during-gender-reveal-over-caribbean-sea

  • hauntingspectre [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I watched this video earlier. Classic banking stall. Speculation is that the pilot was distracted by the need to get the banner out and lost track of his airspeed.

    • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      one of the shittiest ways to die i've seen in awhile in all seriousness. like, fuck

      • hauntingspectre [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        As soon as he realized they were in a stall, he had to know he was dead. Very few planes in the world can recover from a stall at that height, and that's not one of them.

    • spectre [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Don't the banner planes usually take off with the banner deployed? Could be wrong, but I thought I'd seen that

      • hauntingspectre [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yes, that's the normal procedure (or some catch them by hook after takeoff), but this wasn't, from the sound of things, a company that normally did classic banner hauls. It could also be a translation issue of what exactly they were supposed to deploy to show the gender.