More than that, part of the engine hit a window and depressurized the plane sucking one person partially out who died
And she was the first female F-18 pilot
@ajhedges. When did this happen? This is the first I’ve heard about it. This is the kind of stuff I’d like to hear about on the news. Sucks someone died but I’m sure she saved a whole bunch of others due to her keeping her cool an doing what needed to be done in that time of danger. Major props to her! She deff got a salute from me!
The engine failed is a really nice way of saying the engine fucking exploded at 35,000 feet and the debris ripped open the fusulage.
Resulting in her needing to get the craft under 10,000 feet as soon as possible. She did it in less than 5 minutes. In comercial air, that might as well have been a vertical dive. In a crippled comercial airliner.
SHE WAS THE FUCKING PILOT ON THE FUCKING PLANE! What choice did she have? Is she going run away? Is she going to fold her arms and decide everyone is screwed? A hero is someone that does something extraordinary that they don't have to do. Doing the bare minimum of your job, even in a bad situation, doesn't make you a hero.
This was an extraordinary act. It would've been easy to give up, a relief even, and I doubt that your average pilot would be able to keep their cool in that kind of cluster fuck. Are you gonna say the Medal of Honor is stupid, too? I mean, soldiers are just doing their jobs, why treat a few who did more than the bare minimum special?
You don't think ALL commercial pilots are trained and skilled to handle mid-air emergencies @famousone??? You really don't think that literally any commercial pilot could keep thier cool and land a plane with the loss of an engine and a loss of cabin pressure??? Try googling some stats. Airliners lose engines A LOT. They lose cabin pressure for various reasons relatively frequently too. You just don't hear about it because it's boring. The only reason this incident made news is because the pilot is a woman. Period. If it were a middle-aged white man you wouldn't know Jack about it. Granted passengers getting sucked out of holes is thankfully rare, but what happened in the cabin had no relationship to what happened in the cockpit and this pilot likely had no idea until the plane was down. Whoopty freaking do! She did her job. Like any other pilot would and has.
Yeah but a lot of times things just fail in a "oh yeah we'll fix it later" sort of way, not catastrophically "oh shit this needed fixing last week" sort of way.
And she was the first female F-18 pilot
@liquide it was about a week ago
Resulting in her needing to get the craft under 10,000 feet as soon as possible. She did it in less than 5 minutes. In comercial air, that might as well have been a vertical dive. In a crippled comercial airliner.
Hero? You're goddamned right.