Crash


As an airline captain, I would like to weigh in on the crash sequence:

1.) When the plane's wingtip hit the top of the oil rig, that could have taken the aircraft down, if the strike had been further inboard on the wing. With the plane going at its speed, and the wingtip hitting, it could have sent the plane into a potential flat spin, and down it goes. But, since it didn't, it would have to have been a graze that only took off the very tip of the wing.

2.) That being the case, I am not sure why the #4 engine caught on fire. Debris from the strike, maybe? Regardless, the depiction of the engine fire was VERY accurate. It caught on fire, he pulled the fire handle, which shuts everything on the engine down, then fired the extinguisher bottle on the engine. The extinguisher tried to put the fire out. When the fire reignited, he used the extinguisher off the #3 engine to try to put the fire out again.

3.) The plane should have been able to fly just fine, though. Three engines is more than enough to keep the plane in the air, and even gain altitude fairly easily. Two engines would have kept the plane in the air, and even allowed it to gain a modest amount of altitude. If the plane hadn't crashed in the first place, the wing damage would have to have been slight in the first place, which would have caused more drag, but not been catastrophic, by any means. But, the movie requires the plane to crash, which is the only reason it does crash.

4.) Albert Whitlock and his visual effects crew did an AMAZING job with the crash sequence. It is freakily on point! The tail striking would have jarred the plane as shown. The engine hitting would have been catastrophic, causing such a pull on the aircraft, that it would have brought it down, which it does. And, the visual effects are scarily realistic. Whitlock was always a great effects artist, famous for "Earthquake" and "The Hindenburg."

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That's very cool that you are an airline pilot. Thanks for the input!

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Oh thank you! I WAS an airline pilot. But, unfortunately, I was unable to keep the Medical Certificate that I have to have to fly. So, I am not working as a pilot now. I am trying to get a job as a simulator instructor. I don't need a Medical Certificate to do that.

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Do you have any scary, brush with death stories to tell from your time as a pilot? I've always had a morbid fascination(and fear!) of plane crashes even though I know it's the safest way to travel. My brother is an engineer for Boeing, actually.

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Not as an airline pilot, really. I had two instances, one as a first officer, one as a captain. They both involved a hydraulic pump that burned itself out. So, we had to manually pump the gear down. The main thing there was going through four pages of checklists, which took some time.

I got closer when flying smaller aircraft. Air Traffic Control wasn't watching like they were supposed to, and I got pretty close to another aircraft. That was the closest I came.

"Sorry" I don't have more exciting stories! But, the more careful you are as a pilot, the less trouble you are going to run into.

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Epic Queen Fail #2 + #3

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[–] QueenFanUSA (2968) 3 years ago

5) For someone that seems to think they know so much about box office you sure seem to not know what's going to happen to Thor at the box office. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and work with your 278 mil by the end of this weekend. You say 300 mil is a lock. Lol...do you know how much the box office DRIES UP post-Thanksgiving? Do you also realize that THOR is going to be losing tons of screens from here on?

Good luck with that 300 million. Lol

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LOl you Spent over a month repeatedly guaranteeing Thor 3 would Top 300 Million + domestically

Like usually You were Wrong and immediately abandoned The Thor 3 board the very day Thor 3 crossed the 300 Million Mark Domestically

"Good luck with that 300 million"

^^^LOLOLOL Epic fail!







But wait theres MORE!

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[–] QueenFanUSA (2968) 3 years ago

Nope...I don't like the DCEU at all(except Wonder Woman). I loved Thor Ragnarok, but it is quite alarming the drop that it suffered this weekend. The LARGEST third weekend drop in MCU history! I'm afraid $300 million domestic is out of grasp now.

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LOL good call on "$300 million domestic is out of grasp now." Queen

LOLOLOLOL



do you remember why you were making these Trolling Claims on Thor 3 at this time?

You were RAGE and SHAME trolling, at this exact time Justice League had just came out and was Bombing horrifically and you had made a TON of Predictions on JL and that were going down in burning flames(remember when you predicted JL to Open over 150 M+...then changed it to 133 M+, Then 115 M+, then 100 M+ and Then you vanished from the board for 5 days on JLs OW)....

lol everyone was brutally mocking you about all your failed JL predictions and You couldnt defend them so you decided to start SHAME trolling on Thor 3 made up new Predictions that Thor 3 would NOT top 300 M and would NOT top 800 M WW to try and ease the pain of JL failing so badly....

In the end You TOOK A DOUBLE BEATING when all your JL and THOR 3 predictions failed!

Good times


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Thank you for sharing your comments about the movie from an experienced point of view.

Regarding #2, maybe a fuel leak from the wing could have caused the engine fire?

Regarding #3, it appeared he had control issues keeping the plane level after putting out the initial fire, so probably wanted to ensure he could continue to 'fly the plane' in control rather than quickly gain altitude. I assume he also wanted to keep 'under the radar' despite the seriousness of the situation. When it crashed into the water it was at a very high angle of attack and was like it had stalled, so it suggests something wasn't right with the way things were depicted.

Still, not as ridiculous as the Concorde in '79 doing barrel rolls and the pilots opening the windows at 40,000 feet!

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