Skydiving
Hey folks, it’s good to be here. Currently I’m out of the country but hopefully I will still be able to post reasonably regularly. That said, let’s get down to something substantially less substantial.
I saw this article recently on the BBC website: Skydivers survive Spanish crash. Though it’s certainly terrible that two people died in this plane crash, this only slightly mitigates the fact that this article was already 70% funny on its own. I can only imagine that the personal ambition of every skydiver has been secretly bolstered upon reading this – maybe half the reason people jump out of planes in the first place is so they can tell themselves that if a ‘similar’ thing were to happen to them – say a 747 undergoing multiple engine failure (bad flying fish?) – that they would be able to handle it.
The day after, I see this: US skydivers leap to safety as plane fails at 7,000ft.
This time it’s in Indiana instead of Spain, and 15 people instead of 7 (it’s true, here in America we do everything bigger). This boosted the funniness up to 90% as I can so easily imagine the backasswards logic of skydivers/nervous flyers after this: “I will be able to save myself if the pilots both die on this flight by jumping from the plane. Yes, this survival scenario is completely likely to occur.”
Anyway, as they say, ‘Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.’ Well, I’m waiting for a third time. Then maybe we can go to war against airplane malfunctions.
