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There are so many reasons they should never invite kids into cockpits on flights. A bunch of lives at stake and a kid is within a foot of the off switch for all of them? And is this a flight with a single kid on it or something? What about all the other kids on the plane? gently caress them, I guess? There'd be hundreds of complaints a year. My conclusion, the kid in a cockpit thing is only present in TV shows and movies, and the reason it happens is to convince parents it's safer to fly than road trip.
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I did it once and Peter Graves kept trying to molest me.
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Apr 22, 2024 00:30
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I got to go into whatever they call the equivalent on the BART train when I was a kid it was really cool in the transbay tube because the wall lights that look like lasers going by from the regular seats, you could instead see as they're coming at you I was too young to even understand what a cool thing the driver was doing for me and have no memory of the driver, just the experience
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Apr 22, 2024 00:54
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I was put in cockfights in the pits for passenger entertainment instead, OP.
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Apr 22, 2024 00:55
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Cubone posted:I got to go into whatever they call the equivalent on the BART train when I was a kid That's different trains don't really crash like planes do all that often
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Apr 22, 2024 00:59
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There actually was a case where a plane crashed because the pilots let a kid into the cockpit. IIRC the kid fiddled with some controls and inadvertently turned off a critical safety feature in the process. By the time the pilots realized anything was wrong, it was too late. The last thing the black box recorded was one of the pilots angrily yelling at the kid, telling him the plane was gonna crash and everyone onboard including him was about to die and it was all his fault.  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_593 I. M. Gei fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Apr 22, 2024 |
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Apr 22, 2024 01:08
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The only case anyone can verify it happened is recorded because of the exact thing I said to be worried about. Theory confirmed.
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Apr 22, 2024 01:30
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I. M. Gei posted:There actually was a case where a plane crashed because the pilots let a kid into the cockpit. lol 
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Apr 22, 2024 01:31
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I. M. Gei posted:There actually was a case where a plane crashed because the pilots let a kid into the cockpit. drat if i were that kid i'd be thinking about that for the rest of my life
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Apr 22, 2024 01:39
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They wouldn't let me in because they thoguht I was going to do 9/11 which was weird because it was like 1993
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Apr 22, 2024 01:41
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I got to do so in a 747 somewhere over the Pacific Ocean in the mid-90s. I even recently asked mum whether there were any photo evidence of it but she claims not, which sucks because a pic of it would be cool street cred. So I guess you can just assume Im making this up.
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Apr 22, 2024 01:41
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bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:They wouldn't let me in because they thoguht I was going to do 9/11 which was weird because it was like 1993 9/11 happens every year
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Apr 22, 2024 01:41
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Nam Taf posted:I got to do so in a 747 somewhere over the Pacific Ocean in the mid-‘90s. I even recently asked mum whether there were any photo evidence of it but she claims not, which sucks because a pic of it would be cool street cred. I assume you are making this up.
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Apr 22, 2024 01:42
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i got sucked off while getting sucked out of a 747 [storytime] [not clickbait]
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Apr 22, 2024 01:44
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I remember being allowed into the cockpit for a few minutes when I was around 8 or 9. They gave me a pair of plastic wings to pin on my shirt. That would have been 1979 or 1980, and I was flying alone. Pretty sure it was my first time flying. I also remember puking up the pancakes they served on the flight.
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Apr 22, 2024 01:48
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Grem posted:That's different trains don't really crash like planes do all that often Trains crash way more often than planes
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Apr 22, 2024 01:51
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I think you're the greatest, but my dad says you don't work hard enough on defense
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Apr 22, 2024 01:53
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isaboo posted:I remember being allowed into the cockpit for a few minutes when I was around 8 or 9. They gave me a pair of plastic wings to pin on my shirt. That would have been 1979 or 1980, and I was flying alone. Pretty sure it was my first time flying. same except at 6, in 1993, and they kept me there from about halfway in, right up to getting to the terminal, and decided it would be funny to get the six year old to do all the announcements over the intercom apparently this was considered "a little concerning" by some of the other passengers. can't figure why.
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Apr 22, 2024 01:58
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I used to get put in overhead storage to save on ticket costs.
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Pretty rad dad pad posted:same except at 6, in 1993, and they kept me there from about halfway in, right up to getting to the terminal, and decided it would be funny to get the six year old to do all the announcements over the intercom How come you didn't think about the kids that might have hurt feelings because only you got to go in?
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Apr 22, 2024 02:01
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I've been flying with my parents since I was 0 years old in 1992 and I begged everyone CONSTANTLY every year to let me see the cockpit and I never got to
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Apr 22, 2024 02:05
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Lieutenant Dan posted:I've been flying with my parents since I was 0 years old in 1992 and I begged everyone CONSTANTLY every year to let me see the cockpit and I never got to Sorry apparently you need to have parents that don't love you enough to fly with you
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Apr 22, 2024 02:07
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Grem posted:Sorry apparently you need to have parents that don't love you enough to fly with you I shoulda tried to make a break for it and gone for the cockpit door, but alas, they just let me wander up and down the aisle and sometimes the flight attendants would give me a biscuit to shut me up
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Apr 22, 2024 02:09
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i went through the onboard luggage scanner thing and it picked up my epi pen but they search my friends bag behind mine instead lol. i could have brought a gun and flown into the world trade center, killing 2,753 lol. i think about that a lot
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Apr 22, 2024 02:21
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I went to visit family in Italy when I was in like, fourth grade, and the flight attendants on the KLM 747 let me see the cockpit. Two very Dutch pilots were sitting there with their legs up on the dashboard. One of them went "HALLO" and that was pretty much it. I was (still am) a big Beavis & Butthead fan and on one of the flights back I shouted "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE" on takeoff and my Dad told me to shut up.
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Apr 22, 2024 02:37
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I. M. Gei posted:There actually was a case where a plane crashed because the pilots let a kid into the cockpit. the kid was the first person to notice he hosed the plane up lol
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PokeJoe posted:the kid was the first person to notice he hosed the plane up lol "Turn left, Eldar! NOOO!!!"
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Apr 22, 2024 02:49
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oh poo poo why did you guys put me up here
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Apr 22, 2024 02:50
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getting yelled at by your dad as the Airbus you're on crashes into a mountain after a near-successful recovery from a straight dive because you hosed something up and accidentally suicided your family and 72 other people must be a rough way to go out
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Apr 22, 2024 02:51
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dad just sucks at his job
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Apr 22, 2024 02:52
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I never flew until I was an adult and they never let me into the cockpit no matter how many times I ask to sit on the pilot's lap
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Apr 22, 2024 02:53
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do you like movies about gladiators
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MrQwerty posted:getting yelled at by your dad as the Airbus you're on crashes into a mountain after a near-successful recovery from a straight dive because you hosed something up and accidentally suicided your family and 72 other people must be a rough way to go out I was thinking a little 4-6 year old kid playing with buttons and that hopefully he wouldn't fully understand how bad it was. But no he was 15.
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Funky See Funky Do posted:I was thinking a little 4-6 year old kid playing with buttons and that hopefully he wouldn't fully understand how bad it was. Not only that, but quote:Despite the struggles of both pilots to save the aircraft, it was later concluded that if they had simply let go of the control column after the first spin, aerodynamic principles would have caused the plane to return to level flight, thus preventing the crash. Dumbass pilots could have just taken their hands off the stick and they would have all been fine lol
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Apr 22, 2024 03:11
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He also probably knew drat well not to gently caress with anything, too.
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Devils Affricate posted:Dumbass pilots could have just taken their hands off the stick and they would have all been fine lol part of the determination was that they were unfamiliar with the aircraft just great SOP all around from Aeroflot
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Devils Affricate posted:Dumbass pilots could have just taken their hands off the stick and they would have all been fine lol PokeJoe posted:dad just sucks at his job
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When I was a kid, the pilots let me tour the cockpit before taking off when I was flying alone one time. Sadly I was not allowed to fly the plane. I think it was a common thing pre 9/11.
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R.L. Stine posted:i went through the onboard luggage scanner thing and it picked up my epi pen but they search my friends bag behind mine instead lol. i could have brought a gun and flown into the world trade center, killing 2,753 lol. i think about that a lot the terrorism version of looking at a jackson pollock and thinking "I could've done that"
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I got to go up to the cockpit (and got a pin-on set of wings) circa 1997. It was a different time
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