A student pilot successfully landed a plane by herself after her instructor jumped to his death mid-flight.
She said her instructor told her “You know what to do” before leaping from the aircraft.
The article shows a picture of the instructor next to an image of a small single engine cessna.
Comment reads: You could literally land a plane by yourself after your instructor jumps to his death mid-flight and they’d still use a picture of a man.
I mean, why should i be surprised someone who’s been training to fly was able to land a plane? That’s not news. Seems more misogynistic to be surprised a woman could land the plane.
Some crazy fuck committing suicide by jumping out like that very much is news though lol
More that she was a student who landed a plane after her instructor literally jumped out and died. I get that landing a little cesna like that isn’t hard, but it’s a hell of an stressfull circumstance.
Landing a plane while in shock is no simple feat
Doing anything while in shock is no simple feat. It’s almost as if militaries have entire multi-week to multi-month long training procedures to work around that … that are still largely ineffective on first contact.
Oftentimes the media won’t report on suicides in order to not inspire copycats.
Because it could have ended very badly if they weren’t trained enough.
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