It's a stiff competition, but the idea that women are biologically incapable of flying airplanes has got to be one of the dumbest right-wing culture war talking points out there.

Edit: Also, the fact that his wife is a pilot explains a lot; I don't know how anyone could tolerate being married to The Quartering if they weren't away from home all the time.

[–] Jew@hexbear.net 49 points 8 months ago (2 children)

One of the wierd things I hyperfocus on is aviation disasters. I know way too much about plane crashes and am always learning more.

Men are so much more likely to cause plane crashes, mainly because they are overconfident. Take the worst airplane crash of all time, 1977 in Tenerife. The KLM pilot was impatient and overconfident. He rushed takeoff in zero visibility and got 583 people killed. His copilot did not push back on the impatient pilot, mainly because he was a poster boy for KLM. The pilot was featured in their brochure as an expert aviator and it made him a bit of a celebrity in the company. His ego, and it being fed by KLM, got hundreds killed.

The last thing you want in aviation is an overconfident older white guy flying.

[–] Magician@hexbear.net 26 points 8 months ago

For all the incidents of human error, I've read so little about big disasters. Men refusing to admit they feel scared when a part that breaks or so desperate to prove they're masculine that they crash into another place in midair.

There's never like an investigation into the human component of the disaster. Just don't do what this person did. Without any context. This is such a fascinating dimension.

[–] SwitchyWitchyandBitchy@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I was just watching this video about TWA flight 841 which reminds me of the same thing (no fatalities fortunately but there is discussion of another flight where there were fatalities). As well as a more recent repositioning flight where the plane was empty and the pilots decided to take th eplane up to its max altitude, stalled the engines, and failed to adequately respond to the emergency the whole way down. They crashed because they didn't want to admit how much trouble they were in.

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