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

submitted 1 day ago by Abyssian@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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Flight instructor: "Do your best, lol."

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[–] dellish@lemmy.world 21 points 6 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.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago

Making the point about the damage is more relevant tan you making it a gender thing. But agree it was a strange note for a deadly situation.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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".

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 1 points 41 minutes ago

I suppose. However this line then doesn't sit right:

[The] student pilot named Rosario already had a private pilot license but was still building up her flying hours

Strictly speaking she was in the role of a student, but it's not like she didn't know what she was doing. If she already had a private pilot licence, what else is there to assume?

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 5 hours ago

Because when you're a student it's easy to fuck up and break things. Clipping trees cuz he came in at the wrong angle, landing too hard and fucking up the landing gear, colliding with a telephone wire, you get the idea. Now imagine all of that studentness and also your instructor just committed suicide. Now that's in your brain too. So yeah it's irrelevant fact.

[–] Kptkrunch@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Yes this headline is clearly intended to reinforce the patriarchy rather than to get clicks and sound more suspenseful. And everyone was thinking about the pilot's gender before you brought it up.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

what a piece of shit. you want to kill yourself, go to hell on your own.

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Didn't he though? He left the plane in the hands of a capable pilot. No one else was injured. No property was lost.

[–] axx@slrpnk.net 35 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

student pilot successfully landed a plane by herself

Illustration picture is a man.

This is infuriating.

[–] Humana@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

That's a picture of the instructor not the student

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

Who cares about the instructor?

[–] Eh_I@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

I thought it was some rando pilot they found.

"We need a picture of a pilot for this tragic story. Not smiling, stupid."

[–] brianary@lemmy.zip 29 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

a screenshot of the article; the category is "entertainment"

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 15 points 7 hours ago

Are you not entertained??

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Massively selfish prick.

Hope there is a school or group she can file a lawsuit against.

She's facing many hours of counseling. Not sure how well Argentina's mental health coverage provides.

[–] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Whaaaat that's nuts

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 54 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

story about suicide

Entertainment section

This sort of this should get websites permabanned from Lemmy as a source.

Fuck you, dexerto

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[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 26 points 12 hours ago

Man, I thought i disappointed some teachers.

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 35 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Incredibly cruel. What a monster.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 48 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Mens mental health is already a disaster, but in the airline industry it's made worse by the fact that you can lose your piloting license just by seeking help. This is a tragic story. I've joked about this story elsewhere, but I've learned more about it since then.

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Very similar in law enforcement as well.

I personally worked alongside three people who committed suicide for years in our tiny district of maybe 50 patrol deputies over the span of about three years. Kirk Keithley was my zone partner for a long time, then it was Terry Strawn, and then finally Daniel Leyden.

Of course, they also murdered their S/Os and other family members as well, so I'm not exactly pouring one out for them, but it's an undeniable trend more broadly - that spaces that theoretically require the utmost in mental health often paradoxically result in mental health crises because of the stigma and practicality of undermining your paycheck; when the problem is still solvable, it's "not big enough of a deal to risk my job over it."

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It's a messy picture with cops, too because that job so strongly attracts cluster B personality types. You're not just working a job that is institutionally trying to drive you crazy (Killology seminars and all), but the job itself is highly attractive to the most unstable people in society.

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[–] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It should be the other way around. LEO should be required to get regulator mental health help. It's a stressful job, potentially dangerous, they're armed and have people's lives in their hands. We need to make damn sure they are capable of handling that with a sound mind.

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

As previously mentioned, they simply bottle it up. It's not hard to "I've never had any suicidal ideations" your way out of any mandatory screening as currently implemented. Some are better at rooting out deception like that, but apparently that's not in the budget. I received an MMPI-style questionnaire and subsequent interview, but so did all three of those peers I mentioned who passed just the same as I did. Hell, one of my academy classmates told the psychologist he thought he was Batman. When pressed for why, he relented and said it was an outburst because he was distraught due to his goldfish dying. He obviously made it through with a Pass and I think is still on the force many years later? His social media is intentionally obscure so it's hard to say.

Truth be told, reforming law enforcement in this and other ways is simply not politically motivating for most Americans; they're generally either focused on other single issues, "The police are perfect and criticizing them is immoral," or "The police are all bastards and need to be abolished."

I'm not dumb enough to tell everyone I meet I was a cop so all of my discussions about the matter are generally relegated to the internet, but of the people I bump elbows with on the topic on Reddit, 90% of the time it turns into name-calling and other bad faith tactics. The other evidence I use is... -gestures broadly at the state of US politics-. Remember when people were marching in the streets to fix the police? Remember how it generally didn't?

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 101 points 18 hours ago (28 children)

I will never understand why people do things like this. You want to end your life? Cool. Why do you feel this need to traumatize and/or murder others in the process?

Also really, really wish we as a species took mental health more seriously.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 18 points 12 hours ago

I imagine it’s more like an intrusive thought when he was vulnerable. He was likely having a bad time, feeling desperate and suicidal with no help. Then the thought came that he could just open the door, so he did. No planning, no consideration, no real thought once triggered. Other people just weren’t relevant

Arguably if you have the wherewithal to consider other people, there’s at least a sliver of something to live for

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 17 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

And furthermore, this makes the other person a suspect in your death. Just a super shitty way to do it all around.

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

A lot of people include "I don't give a shit about anyone else" in their "I don't give a shit [about myself]" suicidal thoughts.

- Ex-cop, dealt with lots of suicide-by-cop attempts and investigated a lot of suicides

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

When you get into that head space, you don't care about anything at all. The worst postpartum depression I had even made me stop caring about my kids. Then you dissociate and there's very little of what makes you, you, left. When I think back on it it's like I was trapped in my mind and someone else took over.

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[–] kamen@lemmy.world 20 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Why the fuck is this under "/entertainment" on that site?

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 23 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Are you not entertained?

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

No, since there are no onions.

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