Lily

26 | Red Panda | TTRPG Enthusiast | Bisexual Mystery

[orteil42]

things are getting so so stupid. honestly just let me buy tumblr

[angelnumber27]

[honeysider]

[esynk]

[whimsy-flags]

Hey, you uh... coming to the party?

No no, SHH DUDE! Brutus said we were calling it a... y'know, a party! Cause it's a surprise party, and we can't have the big guy finding out early, yeah?

So, did you uh... bring any gifts?

... you forgot your fucking knife?!

GIFT, yeah, I KNOW!

Okay... okay.

Here, fucking... I brought extras.

YEAH THEY'RE THEMED!! Take em or leave em, you ungrateful little-

[hamletthedane]

I think about British Airways Flight 5390 a lot

[hamletthedane]

OKAY STRAP IN because this is one of the WILDEST stories in aviation history.

In 1990, a British Airways BAC One-Eleven, captained by Tim Lancaster and co-piloted by Alastair Atchison, was cruising at 17,000 feet.

Around 15 minutes after take-off, flight attendant Nigel Ogden entered the cockpit to bring the pilots something to drink. One second everything was fine. The next second, the pilot's side window blew out from the force of the pressurized cockpit. Even though he was strapped in, the force of the explosive decompression ripped the captain out of his chair and pulled him though the window.

The flight attendant immediately leapt forward and grasped the captain's belt. The force was so strong - due to the plane's speed - the captain slipped and was pulled almost entirely out of the plane, but the flight attendant caught his leg. The captain laid on the roof, then the side of the fuselage (the above image is an inaccurate recreation - the side window was smashed) and the flight attendant's entire arm was soon outside of the plane, gripping him.

(Recreation from the show Mayday at the point of decompression)

At the same time, the event caused the autopilot to disengage, and the captain's body hitting the flight controls caused the plane to enter into a deep dive. The throttle was set to full power and could not be accessed due to debris, meaning the plane was descending rapidly. The co-pilot, experiencing hypoxia, fought to control the plane's dive while allowing it to continue descending to a level the passengers/crew could breathe at. He attempted to contact air traffic control, but the wind made communication impossible, so he broadcast a mayday signal. Finally, he was able to re-engage the autopilot and level the plane out at a breathable altitude.

Soon, the flight attendant's entire arm was burned from wind shear and frostbite, and his grip began to slip. The other attendants entered the cabin to see what was wrong and took over holding the captain's body. Seeing the blood covering the windows from the captain's severe wind sheer burns and frostbite, the attendants and co-pilot knew he was dead. However, they could not let his body go because it could smash into the wing, horz stabilizer, or engine, and bring the plane down.

For 30+ minutes the co-pilot flew a jet plane with an OPEN WINDOW and his co-worker's body hanging along the side of the plane. Finally, clearance to land from ATC came across over the sound of the wind and the flight attendants were able to dislodge the captain's ankles from the flight controls without letting him go. The co-pilot successfully landed the plane.

(tw below for blood)

(Taken same day as the incident)

BUT HERE'S THE KICKER: when they reached the ground and evacuated, they realized THE CAPTAIN WAS NOT DEAD.

He SURVIVED being outside the fuselage of a jet airplane traveling 550mph at 17,000 feet. His only injuries were extensive - but mostly superficial - frostbite and windshear burns, bruising, fractures in his hand, and shock. He has since stated that he remembers the event and was conscious for much of the time he was outside of the fuselage. The only other injury was the flight attendant's frostbitten/windshorn arm. Captain Tim Lancaster returned to flying five months later.

(Captain Tim Lancaster in bed several weeks after the incident, with flight attendant Ogden (+ Ogden's wife) above him and co-pilot Alastair Atchison to the far left, along with the two other flight attendants)

Why did this occur? Because the plane had received maintenance the day before, and the maintenance supervisor did not check he was using the correct screws in re-installing the windscreen.

(Recreation)

So yeah: you can apparently survive clinging to the side of a jet airliner traveling 500+mph at 17,000 feet.

[hamletthedane]

Wow! Didn't expect this many likes for an aviation post.

Just a note that I was wrong - it was the front pilot's windscreen, not the side-window! I'm used to looking at Boeing windows with different positions :)

If y'all want the full story & more analysis of what exactly went wrong, Mayday: Air Investigations did a pretty decent special on the incident. It's free on YouTube here (and here on dailymotion if you're outside the US).

[desmoscatghost]

Adding some stuff:

The ‘maintenance supervisor did not check the bolts’ is technically correct but ignores the amount of stuff that had to go wrong for that to happen.

1: the supervisor was the one doing the bolts (I think there was a staffing issue) and so did not have to check the work that he did

2: the window was not on the list of vital components that need to be checked by someone else even if the supervisor does it.

3: the parts store where he had to go to get the bolts was badly lit and had bolts in the wrong drawers.

4: the wrong bolts and the right bolts are almost indistinguishable by sight.

5: the correct tool to put the screws in was not available so they had to do some lite bodging to get the screws in. By this I mean it was still a torque wrench and they checked it released at the right point but the correct socket did not stay in place or something like that.

6: any slight differences between the right bolts and the wrong bolts were hidden because of the tool they were using (which would have worked perfectly if they were using the right bolts).

If one of those things had not happened then the plane would have had the right bolts when it took off.

[hamletthedane]

^ absolutely critical edition and a great example of what’s known in risk analysis as the Swiss Cheese Model.

From Wikipedia:

“The Swiss cheese model of accident causation illustrates that, although many layers of defense lie between hazards and accidents, there are flaws in each layer that, if aligned, can allow the accident to occur. In this diagram, three hazard vectors are stopped by the defenses, but one passes through where the "holes" are lined up.”

Accidents in complex systems are very rarely one person’s fault and my original post indeed oversimplified the incident for the sake of telling a straightforward story. This was not the case of one bad maintenance worker; this was a systematic failure. The holes lined up and a tragedy nearly occurred because profit (short staffing, poor maintenance facilities, poor training and tools) was prioritized over safety at several layers. Any additional degree of safety would have prevented this from occurring.

[evilvillain123456789]

>Hit pedestrian

>Check engine light turns back off

[baranarts]

smol comm, big tail

[serpenservm]

Adam Curtis, “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace”. 2011.

[beardedmrbean]

[theman]

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

[tattooedzombigirl]

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

[secondlina]

Reblogging because it’s a damn potato and I want to encourage people to assume potatoes are magical.

[flygutzz]

imma do anything atp why not

[xylophonetangerine]

woke (adj.) of or relating to replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver

[jethroq]

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

Happy Ides of March.

Remember when Caesar died and the Republic was not restored?

[just-shower-thoughts]

I hate that SEPTember OCTOber NOVember and DECember aren’t the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months.

[advanced-procrastination]

Whoever fucked this up should be stabbed

[maybe-its-jake]

Today’s your lucky day

[innerchildabortionclinic]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

Everyone keep sending your attacks. She can't protect him forever

[injuries-in-dust]

An adorable comic I found on reddit and wanted to share.

Original artist Heidi.Doodlez on twitter.

[hound-of-heaven]

Heidi’s also put this and a continuation on WEBTOON!

[injuries-in-dust]

Rebloging to spread that webtoon link.

[bread--quest]

[ID: A series of comics of two Mexican teenage girls, Marisol and Ester. Ester is short, has short, fluffy dark brown hair, and Marisol is taller and has long, straight brown hair with lighter brown streaks. Marisol says sarcastically to Ester "Omg, that skirt is sooo cute," laughing. Ester happily says "Thanks! I'm trying a new style," and thinks to herself "Wow I can't believe someone noticed, she is so nice," while Marisol stares in confusion. Marisol is in class talking to her friend, who says "This class is soooo boring, it makes me want to...what was the word for drilling a hole in my skull?" Marisol turns around to look at Ester and says "I bet she would know. Looks like she likes weird things." Ester says "Trepanning is the medical practice for drilling a hole into the skull." Marisol's friend says "Yes that's it! This class makes me want to trepan my skull!" Marisol turns away, glowering, while Ester stares at her and wonders "How did she know that was my special interest?" A teacher calls "students stand up and make a line." Ester stands stiffly while Marisol stands next to her, frowning. Marisol thinks "I will stand far away," taking a step away, and smugly thinks "Now she will know I don't like her." Ester, eyes sparkling, thinks "She gave me personal space, did she notice I get overwhelmed when I'm too close to people?" Ester says to Marisol "Hi Marisol. Do you want to go to the mall with me?" Marisol smugly says "The mall? I don't know where that is, I buy my clothes in fancier places." In the fourth panel, Marisol and her friend from earlier are in the car with Ester, Marisol's friend driving. Ester says "Thanks for driving us, Marisol doesn't know where the mall is." Marisol's friend says "So ditzy! We go there every Friday!" Marisol, in the backseat, stares. Marisol is following Ester in the mall-- Ester is holding a bag from the bookstore, and Marisol is carrying a bag and sipping a drink with a grouchy expression, thinking "I give up." Ester is outside a store with spooky decorations in the window, staring at them, while two other teens come out and Marisol sips her drink in the foreground. The teens whisper to each other "She uses granny clothes," "So embarrassing," and Ester hears. Marisol thinks "She probably will say she likes vintage clothes or something," but then looks over and realizes with shock that Ester is crying. Marisol shouts "Hey you!" at the startled teens, and surrounded by a cloud of darkness, crushes her drink in one hand as she hisses "Stop right there, posers." The two teens are shocked and frightened. Ester is coming out of the bathroom, wiping her face on her sleeve. Marisol, leaning on the wall outside the bathroom, says "Hey. Ignore them." She looks away and says awkwardly "They are just...bullies." Ester sadly says "Maybe that wasn't their intention." Marisol says "Nah they were rude A.F.," and Ester says "Oh..." Ester says "....I can't read people's intentions." Marisol looks startled for a moment, and then looks away and thinks "Well, that explains a lot." She ruffles Ester's hair and says "That makes you an easy target," then begins walking off, saying "Help me find a new outfit." Ester, following her and smoothing down her hair, says "C-could you help me? Not to be an easy target? You seem to understand everything really well, and you are nice to me." Marisol, flattered, says "Help you? I will have to think about it." Ester says "Ok. Think about it." Marisol, flustered, says, "Oh! Ummm I mean yes sure," thinking "She is too literal," as Ester reacts joyously. As the two walk down the hallway of the mall together, Marisol says "Just because you bought me a frap." Ester says "Ok." Marisol says "...I'm kidding." Ester says "Oh!"

[wedding-funeral-waitress]

[ID: The last panel starts with a hard-cut to 10 years later with Marisol and Ester sleeping in the same bed. Marisol jolts awake and states "Ah. I was bullied?" Ester wakes up before asking "what's up?" before Marisol responds with "You bullied me?" Ester then pats Marisol's leg and saying "oh, that was years ago." The two slightly bicker with Marisol saying "you were so rude" and Ester ending the panel with "Let's talk about it tomorrow"]

[shutyourmoustache]

[treecitysessions]

There was girls in the comments saying she saved their lives with this video

[cinematech]

half paying attention and the 7-11 cashier was pronouncing 12 dollars as "two elf dollars" and I kept saying "what?"

[cinematech]

6 us dollars = 1 elf dollar

[milkchuggs]

I was curious if the exchange rate has gotten worse so I did a quick search for elf inflation and