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RJ85 Fire Fighting extreme near miss

submitted by eric3579

5 years 3 months 2 weeks ago

A fire fighting airplane comes very close to crashing into the terrain.

Comment from reddit :

From someone in the know:

“A 146 with a very talented pilot at the controls. Sadly, this is the risks of our profession. The pilot has admitted to being target fixated and made a bad lapse of judgment (often times only a millisecond in this business) and dip below the pre-briefed minimum crossing height of the ridge on the exit. I almost lost a great colleague on that drop; A husband, father, friend and firefighter. Respect is appreciated.”

6 Comments

Yikes!
*promote
*nsfw

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Wednesday, September 4th, 2019 10:22am PDT - promote requested by newtboy.

This video has been flagged as being Not Suitable For Work - declared nsfw by newtboy.

BSR

Sphincter knot!

That definitely looked like a near hit to me.

the only words spoken were the correct words

greatgooglymoogly says...

damn, you'd think the co-pilot would be fixated on the altitude, flying towards a ridge like that. The FAA will be calling I'm sure.

blancolirio on what happened

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