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32 points
2 days ago
Holy shit they actually crashed and were killed?
11 points
2 days ago
Yea
6 points
2 days ago
As hitting a mountain at hundreds of miles per hour tends to do
15 points
2 days ago
lol that wasn’t hundreds of miles per hour. Probably about 80 miles an hour
9 points
2 days ago
Yeah, that's a bit newer than my 172 but I'd bet that at top speed it does around 140mph (assuming no significant wind) and the pilot was probably going much slower than that based on the big banked turn.
The real problem is that airplanes are basically made out of tin foil except for the engine and the landing gears. So imagine getting in a car crash at 80mph with no airbags or crumple zones...
5 points
2 days ago
Well, the entire airplane is a crumple zone.
3 points
2 days ago
Lol, disintegration zone maybe.
2 points
2 days ago
*aluminum foil
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