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Airplane crashes during gender reveal party, killing pilot

thehill.com Airplane crashes during gender reveal party, killing pilot

A pilot died during a gender reveal party when his plane crashed after dispersing pink smoke in the air above the gathering. A video posted online shows a couple standing in front of a large lit up…

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A pilot died during a gender reveal party when his plane crashed after dispersing pink smoke in the air above the gathering.

A video posted online shows a couple standing in front of a large lit up sign reading “Oh Baby,” before capturing the pilot flying low to the ground while releasing the pink smoke above the pair in San Pedro, Mexico. Just after flying over the couple, the plane’s left wing quickly snapped and the aircraft spiraled out of control and crashed in a nearby field.

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How many times does God need to tell us that gender reveal parties have to stop before we listen?
- i don't believe they are a real thing
  
  Gender or parties?

Gender reveal parties were a mistake. The woman who started them had miscarried every time before, so was celebrating every little milestone of her pregnancy, but people took the idea and started using it as excuse to show off and try to one up other folks.
- She doesn't like the idea overall either.
- I don't mind people doing whatever they want but a lot of them are just not to my liking, but neither are Tupperware parties...I just don't care about either.
  A lot of these end up as headlines though, I feel that those involved would likely be headline regardless. In this case it is just unfortunate.
  
  Tupperware also carries the stench of MLM with it. Too bad since its generally pretty solid stuff. Waiting to find out the gender until birth was an interesting social experiment for my wife and I. It bothered some people more than we expected and others less.
- That’s like a prompt to a twilight zone episode. 😬

They dont know what happened? That pilot used a crop dusting plane to do a strafing run, realized he was headed nose first into some palm trees and yanked up on the yoke. He sheered the wing straight off his plane and died for the mistake.
- Sure that’s what caused the crash, but why did the wing snap? It didn’t look like the plane was in overspeed, and the airframe should be able to sustain any input maneuvers under normal flight conditions.
  
  the airframe should be able to sustain any input maneuvers under normal flight conditions.
  Let me frame it this way for you, my car's pretty reliable, but at high speeds I know that making a hard turn will end in catastrophe.
  
  This is a crop duster, not a stunt plane. It's not designed for that maneuver, so if you try, wings snap off. Iow, not normal flight conditions. Unlike civil engineers, you can't slap a factor of safety of 10 on an airplane. It won't fly.
  
  I think you’re underestimating his speed and overestimating the strength of airframes. Most planes can easily get to speeds where inputs can exceed structural limits under normal flight conditions. There is even a V speed for it, Va or maneuvering speed. A quick google suggests that Vne, or “never exceed” for the PA 25 is -35 knots and Va is 104 knots. Now I have never flown one and I haven’t completely verified them but they sound about right. At 104 knots he can over G the airframe. Assuming a standard safety factor of 1.5 and a g limit of 3.8 (basic assumptions but I can’t find actual data for the PA25) and at max weight you can expect severe structural damage with full control inputs at 127 knots. If he wasn’t carrying that much and was lighter that number comes down as well. Finally, there’s the fact that it was a crop duster in Mexico so who knows what the maintenance history and actual condition of that wing spar was. Either way, even if it was in top form hitting 130 knots on a show boating low pass isn’t that crazy.
  
  The pilot has probably been beating on the airframe like this for years.

Imagine learning in your teens that your gender is a pink-smoking plane crash claiming a pilot.
- I remember the good days when things were simple, when you were either an Apache Attack helicopter or you weren't.
  
  Damn I have an Uncle that thinks that joke is still hilarious. Absolute lead-poisoned dumbass.
- Now if the child end up being trans it would have been for nothing
  
  Transition may be unconventional, involving means of trans-portation and what-nots.

Equivalent exchange. You’ve got to take a life to make a life.
- Ed ward

*genital reveal party
- Yeah, gender is a separate thing now.

I assume that the jet pictured in the original post has nothing to do with the plane that crashed?
- You would be correct. It was a single prop.

Nice click bait picture The Hill
- Was just about to point out they could have taken any of the 1000 frames from the video of the actual incident but instead chose a stock photo.
- They also had an option to use a stock photo of the actual aircraft type on the ground.

Why is the image for this article a passenger jet plane? The actual airplane that folded like paper mache was a tiny single engine propeller plane

It's a girl!
- It was a boy.

Well at least she gonna be pooping out a replacement soon.
Seriously though, just get a cake with a pink or blue frosting layer hidden under the fondant line a civilized person. Or go with green just to fuck with everybody lol.
- Or go with green just to fuck with everybody lol.
  "Congratulations, it's a ninja turtle!"

Is there a place to see how many lives gender reveal parties have claimed?

Not much to report on here… until you can explain why the wing snapped.
- Seems like the wing snapped because he pulled up too hard with a plane that wasn’t designed for it.
  
  my guess is it wasn't maintained properly as well. that wing definitely failed because he pulled up harder than he should have, but it may have been due to material fatigue as a contributing factor.
  either way... the pilot is probably the guy that maintains it.

oh great, gender reveal plane crashes

You've gotta be fuckin kidding me.

If you look at the ground, an air cannon blasts smoke and confetti right below where the wing snaps upward.
My guess is there was already upward force on the wing when doing the low pass, and the air cannon burst collided with the airstream.
The timing is too perfect for it to be unrelated. Fuck your babies gender.
- Idk that air cannons at a different angle. My money is on poor aircraft maintenance coupled with pilot error of pulling up too quickly with too much speed.
- C'mon. The wings fell off the airplane. Pilot obviously spent years beating the shit out of the airframe and the wingbox finally failed.

That plane looked like it was made out of cardboard and duct-tape.

Jesus, is that made out of paper mache?
Jesus: sí.

Legit looked like that plane was something the wright brothers made

gender party reveal idea. i punch you in the goddamn mouth and scream the babies gender in your face

I was gonna demand that gender be abolished because of how many people it keeps killing (because of the "gender" reveals, getit? Har har...) but sometimes I do feel like plane crash is pretty me, you know?

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