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Flight instructor: "Do your best, lol."

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[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good way to fake your death and ensure your student gets famous. Win-win.

[–] courval@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Fame and life long anxiety. But fame is awesome specially without the money that usually comes with it..

[–] TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social 20 points 1 day ago

"They expect one of us in the wreckage, brother. The fire rises."

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder where the instructor landed.

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[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I uhh, presume he landed somewhere?

Edit: my point is more about where

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

No. He's still up there.

SpoilerIf you ignore any information provided by the article and completely bastardize statistics,

There's a 70% chance he ocean'd!

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Well he didn't float away.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's like siths' rule of two, except 740,000.

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