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Student pilot successfully lands plane after instructor jumps to death mid-flight (www.dexerto.com)

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Flight instructor: "Do your best, lol."

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[–] dellish@lemmy.world 19 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

Despite the shocking turn of events, Rosario managed to... safely bring the Cessna back to the airfield without damaging the aircraft.

What a bizarre thing to say. Well, phew, I guess. Lucky the aircraft wasn't damaged by the single female pilot who already had her licence and was just building up hours. Me and all other males in the world would have expected her woman-brain to take over and cause her to panic-land while doing a backflip and simultaneously rolling her ankle or some shit apparently.

I'm seriously struggling to understand why "without damaging the aircraft" was added to the sentence.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

Simple, people assume "student pilot" means doom without realizing how far along people fly with instructors.

I think it's much to assume the surprise is about gender instead of the word "student".

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