Gates9"Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport."
Don’t planes have seatbelts? How did so many people manage to fly out of their seats?
Also friendly reminder to everybody that planes are still the safest mode of transportation by a significant margin
AeonFelisThey have seatbelts, but for the most of the flight they are unused - you only need to buckle in during takeoff, landing, and if when encountering turbulence.
I guess there wasn’t enough time to get all the passengers to fasten their seatbelts before the collision?
Where I fly they also always advise to remain fastener regardless of no immediate warnigs. Exactly for situations like this - and others.
theneverfoxYeah, but people are still going to be using the bathrooms and such, even if you assume everyone actually obeys the rules
because of a few exception cases this is never going to work
At any time, you can expect at least 2-6 people out of their seats if the fasten seatbelts sign isn’t on. But I don’t really care about that part, shit happens
Planes shouldn’t be dodging each other in the first place… That’s the actual problem here. I don’t blame the pilot either, they avoided a collision, so as far as I’m concerned they did what they had to do
The situation itself never should have happened
i dont even know what youre trying to state or argue. seatbelts should be worn by all seated passengers at all times to mitigate risk of injury in case something that shouldn’t happen does end up happening. obviously there are exceptions like when people need to piss and shit.
No duh. I don’t care if a few people got slammed into the ceiling
I care that two planes almost collided and killed everyone
Why even consider the seat belts? They’re not the real issue here