At this point, one must assume that truckers simply don't watch YouTube.

 

At this point, one must assume that truckers simply don't watch YouTube.

They probably don't want to risk getting a ticket by watching YouTube while driving a big semi.

Just saying.

 

 

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/572175

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2218586745645558

 

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/12T5epaXKe0

 

 

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/39573349/mysterious-vigilante-dubbed-mexican-batman/
Mysterious vigilante dubbed ‘Mexican Batman’ hunting down ‘motorcycle thieves’ & duct taping them to street poles

 

Firework strikes Delta flight landing in Chicago

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“We’re just hoping it was just the mortar that went off underneath, but definitely felt the big bang,” a crew member told air traffic control.

 

Firework strikes Delta flight landing in Chicago
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Maybe they should incorporate a tail-gunner for future Independence Day flights.

(Yes, I know tail-gunners are useless against flak, but this is the thought that first popped into my mind.)

 

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/39663778/cable-car-breakdown-leaves-families-dangling-200-ft/



Sixteen people, including four children, said they faced “the greatest fear of their lives” while stranded in the sky.

The gondolas had been travelling across the Volga river in Russia when the cableway system unexpectedly broke down.

Two cable cars had already been left stranded on the ride when a third gondola glided towards them, followed by a fourth one a short while later.

Dramatic footage shows the hangers of the cabins grinding against one another on the overhead wire, sparking fears one of the cabins could plummet to the ground.

 

Judge allows suit over airline window seats without a window to proceed

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A California judge denied United Airlines' request to dismiss a class-action lawsuit filed against the airline last year by a passenger alleging that the airline knowingly charged them extra for a window seat that didn’t actually have a window.

 

Flight school pilot jumps to his death midair, leaving student to land plane

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The student said Bertazzo told her, “You know what you have to do, carry on,” before taking off his headset and seatbelt, opening the door and jumping out of the plane, TN reported.

 

Man nearly sucked out of window mid-air on Ryanair plane, passengers say

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"We thought the plane was going down. The decompression was extreme. It felt like we couldn't breathe. The man who was injured was bleeding and then lost consciousness several times, most likely because of the lack of oxygen and the shock"

 

Wreckage of Pan Am plane found in ocean 74 years after crash off Puerto Rico: "Changed aviation forever"

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"Although the Clipper was equipped with life rafts and personal floatation for all aboard, most of the passengers remained glued to their seats, more afraid of facing the reality of their situation than the momentary mirage of safety offered by remaining in the plane's cabin," the foundation said. "It would prove a fatal mistake for 52 of them."

 

A helicopter accident does not always result from a major mechanical failure. Sometimes, it comes down to a single missing component. In this case, the cause was the failure to reinstall a cotter pin after maintenance. Cotter pin is a simple locking device that prevents the retaining nut on the pitch linkage bolt from loosening due to vibration. Without the cotter pin, nut gradually backed off during operation until the bolt fell out, disconnecting the pitch linkage and resulting in loss of control.

 

A helicopter accident does not always result from a major mechanical failure. Sometimes, it comes down to a single missing component. In this case, the cause was the failure to reinstall a cotter pin after maintenance. Cotter pin is a simple locking device that prevents the retaining nut on the pitch linkage bolt from loosening due to vibration. Without the cotter pin, nut gradually backed off during operation until the bolt fell out, disconnecting the pitch linkage and resulting in loss of control.

Same reason why my front left wheel almost fell off weeks after a front-end repair job.

I was livid!

 

A seemingly small oversight can be the difference between life and death ... that is why checklists where created in the first place.

 

A helicopter accident does not always result from a major mechanical failure. Sometimes, it comes down to a single missing component. In this case, the cause was the failure to reinstall a cotter pin after maintenance. Cotter pin is a simple locking device that prevents the retaining nut on the pitch linkage bolt from loosening due to vibration. Without the cotter pin, nut gradually backed off during operation until the bolt fell out, disconnecting the pitch linkage and resulting in loss of control.

Accidents due to small, simple factors is the norm, not the exception. Figure that if that cotter pin didn't serve an important purpose, it probably wouldn't have been there to begin with. So it's not too surprising that it being missing has the potential to cause serious problems. We had an F-15 ingest a nut from a broken bolt holding the nose gear wheel halves together. The maintenance folks didn't have the specified anti-seize compound, so they used what they did have. But it turned out to be much lower friction, so more of the torque was taken up by the bolt's tension. On take-off, when the nose came off the ground and the gear snapped out to full extension, the bolt snapped. The top part of the bolt went out into the field between the runways, while the nut and lower part of the bolt came up and down the No 1 engine, exiting the other end about $6.5 million later.

The pilot had big brass ones. Here he is going about 200 mph in a 50,000 vehicle loaded with full fuel, in full afterburner, that hasn't firmly decided whether it wants to be a plane or a car. His port engine has just grenaded, sending pieces of fan blades through the aircraft and punching holes in both his wing and fuselage tanks, not to mention cutting wires and other things. He's committed to take off (insufficient distance remaining to even attempt to reject the takeoff), he's got alarms and lights going off all around him. He's got asymmetric thrust with one engine in full afterburner and the other spooling down (and coming apart), he's lost all flight controls on the right side of the aircraft while the wing-root switching valves assess the condition of the hydraulic lines in the wings and transfer backup hydraulics out there, a process that takes about two-and-a-half seconds which seems like an eternity when you are pitch up and just a few feet off the ground. No one could have blamed him for punching out, but he fought it and got it into the air, assessed the situation, declared an emergency, and managed to get the aircraft back to the field and take the barricade. That was one seriously messed up bird, but we had her back in the air, with the same pilot, in just a few weeks.

 

The maintenance folks didn't have the specified anti-seize compound, so they used what they did have.

Were they still maintenance folks after that?

How about the supervisor who signed off on their work?