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

  • Enver_Hohshit [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Ok, what is the genuine reason shit like this keeps happening? Do people at these things just do things they haven't done before as stunts (ie, flying planes, operating pyrotechnics, etc), or is there some other underlying reason?

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      4 years ago

      Ok, what is the genuine reason shit like this keeps happening?

      "Skywriter crashes plane while doing non-gender reveal based stunt" just doesn't get as much visibility.

      Small engine aircraft accidents aren't that unusual. And amateur stunt artists taking rich clients to maintain the equipment for their very expensive hobby are on the front lines of "people most likely to down a small engine aircraft doing something stupid".

      This is pure selection bias.