"Before a man drank coffee, a barista took his money and prepared the cup" - this same journalist probably

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I laughed so you get an upvote, but in this case they're telling us the pilot was flying in controlled airspace and was definitely told to climb.

120’ agl, miles from the airstrip flying night ifr. Will be interesting to see the ntsb case on this one

Makes a very nice photo

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You make it sound like it's a normal part of the process. I imagine it's more like the barista warned him that wasn't the coffee line but the janitorial closet, and the guy still drank some industrial cleaner anyway.

You fail to understand. This man drinks decaf.

Being 65 with shattered bones suspended high in the air by the plane you crashed while suffering from hypothermia for 7 hours sounds truly awful

I am imagining that air traffic controller is now sipping their tea and going "hmmm hmmm".

It's true, the cleaner lacks caffeine. I can see where I erred.

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Careful! It's hot!

But they didn't end up catching covid. Sooo.... Win?

I like the closing quote:

> Smouse said the incident was “pretty scary” and his house is located in an area where planes and jets often pass through.

> “I think about it a lot, where they come in, and, literally, they are like 200 or 300 feet over us,” he said.

Powerful insight: planes in the air overhead.

This fucking idiot. Sitting around my house on a Sunday off work in darkness because some clown wanted to fly in dense fog.

Absolutely amazing that the pilot and passenger survived.

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And the airport outdates the vast majority of people who live there. They built suburban sprawl all around it. It’s not some big surprise that there are airplanes at the airport.

being 65----how did THAT make the list with those other items

Idk man no one's ever told me they're glad to be old I can't imagine it's fun

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Senator Jim Inhofe and BasicMed. He got that passed to ensure he could fly until he dies.

You can fly in low to no viability with an IFR clearance.

I haven’t taken IFR classes but my guess is he either violated the glide scope via an incorrectly set barometer (either overloaded by what he needed to be done, misheard the ATIS, ATC didn’t give correct barometer reading to use, or just a mistake in setting it), or because he went below the decision altitude to fly the missed approach.

He could have done things he shouldn’t have done, but flying in dense fog is not one of them

Seriously I just assumed that was going to be a combination of giant bug zapper and napalm strike.

Being asshole pilot that doesn't look at instruments and flies into transmission tower cutting power for over 100,000 people, causing accidents, medical deaths, county closing schools...

Yep, who's the bad guy?

1.2 miles and 5:45pm.. so maybe dusk. He was IFR and warned by tower about alt

It's the only item that's guaranteed to get worse... One way or another

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