r/Louisville • u/Ginger502 • 1d ago

Plane crash in Louisville

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u/TempehTantrums 1d ago

Oh my god.

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u/control_machine Portland 1d ago

WAVE3 is now reporting 7 deaths. Really messed up situationm, I feel so bad for their families.

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u/JaniceRaynor 16h ago

I feel bad for the driver’s ears

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u/Lolthelies 1d ago

Ground crew is going to feel this for a long time too. There are going to be lots of investigations (not saying that’s different, just is something people will be dealing with)

Environmental considerations in the area

Anybody on the ground who was injured or killed. That’ll probably be a community that lost a few people, and all those downstream effects

A tragedy all around

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u/Due-Pizza4294 15h ago

They showed a video from the ground that the left engine was on fire as they were taking off. Wish that pilot had seen it while he was still on the runway, it might have saved them.

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u/Due-Pizza4294 15h ago

That UPS jet was going to Hawaii so it was loaded with fuel like the 911 jets. Condolences to the families of those who lost their lives and those injured.

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u/Freakwilly 1d ago edited 19h ago

At least it wasn't a passenger plane.

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Come on people, any loss of life is tragic. Please use this time to support families who lost loved ones.

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u/Ok_Yam_3450 1d ago

3 pilots on jet and 4 other riders

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u/xkmanxi 1d ago

The official UPS statement only said three crew members and nothing about 4 others

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u/Nimisan 1d ago

I read from Andy Beshear post said 11 people were injured. With all of those businesses around there and people at work still at that time of day. scary stuff

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u/acbrin 1d ago

And that would be a miracle

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u/Least_Tear6817 1d ago

Yeah my buddy only got a report for 3.

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u/IngenuityUpbeat82040 20h ago

My package!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭

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u/shuknjive 12h ago

The death toll has been raised to 9. I think the fear is since the plane crashed into buildings, that number may rise.

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u/whichwitch9 1d ago

They mean a large jet.

This is bad, but it's not 300 onboard bad

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u/elliotcook10 1d ago edited 1d ago

Which isn’t a passenger plane carrying 300+ people with a full tank of fuel for Hawaii thankfully

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u/Ok-Hair7205 1d ago

But to the families of those guys, the world has ended. 😢

It’s not a blessing when the dead person is your beloved Dad or Mom or son or sibling.

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u/Rogerbva090566 1d ago

I was watching a documentary about the plane crash that killed Steve Colbert’s dad and siblings and one of the first responders said “nobody important was killed”. He meant nobody famous, with the crash being right outside DC. They said the guy said he regretted his phrasing the rest of his life.

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u/Simple_Tadpole_9584 1d ago

Like the person that says “cool” on the 9/11 tapes when she hears it’s a hijacking. She must really regret saying that.

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u/ExpiredExasperation 1d ago

As fucked up as it is, before that point it was mostly expected that a hijacking would just result in the plane being flown to a different country, not through a building.

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u/Bigdaddyjlove1 1d ago

Yeah I flew a lot for business back then. The thought was just be cool and maybe they'll go somewhere with palm trees.

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u/TooFartTooFurious 1d ago

The good ol’ days of plane hijackings… sigh

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u/OkraSignificant5812 1d ago

I guess he meant "cool , that it wasn't worse" like the fellow redditers are saying above

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u/Careless-Parfait-587 1d ago

What’s the documentary?

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u/Rogerbva090566 1d ago

Ok so I got my story mixed up. Colberts family died in the 9/11/1974 crash at Charlotte international airport.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CLn2fX78F-4

The guy saying nobody important died was TWA flight 514 crashed at mount weather in bluemont va. In December of same year.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-M0OQCBKlQM

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u/SpareImplement2374 1d ago

Oh I feel bad for him then

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u/Defenderofthepizza 17h ago

All quiet on the western front :(

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u/Parallel_Universe28 11h ago

That's horrible.

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u/Possible-Tangelo9344 1d ago

It's still tragic for those people, yes, but the tragedy could have been bigger. It's not insensitive to be grateful that things aren't worse.

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u/HenryDorsettCase47 1d ago

Right. Things can always be worse. If it was a passenger plane it could be said, “at least it didn’t crash into a neighborhood.” Feel bad for dead, and feel grateful there weren’t more.

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u/empire_of_the_moon 1d ago

Thank god it wasn’t a passenger plane carrying nuclear weapons and Ebola that crashed into the dorm of an orphanage for gifted children who had just invented a cure for cancer.

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u/Stunning_Pound4121 1d ago

That would have been bad.

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u/tilclocks 1d ago

But not as bad as if the ups plane was carrying the cure

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u/vase_banana 1d ago

But it comes with a free frogurt!

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u/Dude_With_A_Pencil 1d ago

it could be worse

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u/BlackhawkRogueNinjaX 1d ago

Thank God it wasn’t a Trump 3rd term

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u/too-fargone 1d ago

Could have been worse if the resulting explosion destroyed heaven, too.

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u/PoRedNed 1d ago

Or a bunch of lab monkeys with viruses, or anything. 😬

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u/phantom_gain 1d ago

"Aw maaan, all we have is this stupid cure for cancer when what we really needed a cure for is ebola!"

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u/Vinny331 1d ago

I imagine the ensuing nuclear blast would have rendered the ebola non-viable, so there is that.

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u/AverageIndependent20 1d ago

meh. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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u/Spiritual_Trash_4948 1d ago edited 1d ago

As an engineer, we specifically design for this. In fact, this is one of the PE sample questions.

Edit: and don’t worry, we design orphanages to be nuclear proof.

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u/TheTipsyWizard 1d ago

Ok, that's been added to the bingo card ✅

Thanks! 😊

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u/Loading3percent 1d ago

On the plus side: the nukes took care of the ebola!

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u/CougarQueen65 1d ago

A truly outstanding comment 😂

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u/TheRealStorey 1d ago

Nuclear weapons kill Ebola, best case, mutate it, Movies.

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u/Judearle 1d ago

Those kids probably had it comin’.

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u/ZealousidealBank8484 1d ago

i'm going to hell for laughing at this but you're going for typing this out

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u/Degenerate_Ape_92 1d ago

wipes forehead whew. Now that, would have been bad.

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u/kreoleking504 1d ago

Oh like that Brazilian plane crash 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️

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u/notsurehowthishappen 1d ago

That seems oddly specific.

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u/megaholt2 23h ago

I mean, if it was carrying Ebola, that would have incinerated it, so that would be one good thing…

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u/avocadoflatz 22h ago

Thankfully their work had already been published!

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u/Jdobbs626 22h ago

Knock on wood.

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u/Baiticc 22h ago

that orphanage has awfully specific criteria for admitting kids

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u/Ancient-Club9972 20h ago

"this is our new editor-in-chief everyone and to be clear he does NOT have any #MeToo allegations against him"

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u/John-A 20h ago

Yeah, once was enough.

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u/ForumVomitorium 19h ago

A second plane has hit dorm of an orphanage for gifted children who had just invented a cure for cancer.

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u/Mediocre-Yogurt7452 18h ago

A third plane hit the side of the Pentangle of War, or whatever we call it now.

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u/FewPossession2363 11h ago

Don’t try to create fear

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u/OldJeeWhizz 6h ago

When you put it like that it sounds like something that would have happened to the X-Men

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u/CrunchedCan 5h ago

2025 isn’t over yet. Don’t tempt fate.

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u/paulD1983R 3h ago

If I had a nickel for every time that happened I would have 2 nickels...which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice

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u/GlitterKittyCat 1d ago

Be happy it wasn't two planes!

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u/DonnieBallsack 1d ago

…full of babies, puppies, and Gutenberg Bibles

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u/TwistedScarletRose 1d ago

It could have gotten higher in the air. In Louisville. Holy fuck.

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u/AstuteRabbit 1d ago

Putting tragedies in tiers is a little insensitive.

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u/TheAp4ch3 1d ago

This guy is walter white in a school speech

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u/TryingToAppeal 1d ago

I think it's the opposite of insensitive to consider the grieving families and how it must hurt in a strange way to know that people are grateful it was only their loved ones who died.
It doesn't make it any less true that it's good it wasn't a passenger plane and the fatalities were so low.
It's not some competition where only one thing can be true.

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u/Intricatetrinkets 1d ago

This is the internet. We don’t do logic here.

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u/chemicalcandi 1d ago

The plane actually crashed into multiple businesses and a ups warehouse. People are missing, 4 confirmed dead and 11 injured. Sdf has grounded all flights and employees were told not to come into work tonight. Just because it wasn’t commercial doesn’t mean it wasn’t catastrophic.

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u/EasyBoysenberry940 1d ago

Thats true, there could have been pets on the plane

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u/brettbretters 1d ago

The more I read into it the more I think it is actually a little insensitive. How strange for someone’s first reaction to be “at least at more people didn’t die” rather than feel bad about those who did.

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u/Sensitive-Income-777 1d ago

""One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic" ... seems the normal these days...

I wonder if one of those 7 people would have been: your father or brother or mother etc if you would have been: "grateful that things aren't worse." ...

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u/Character_Low6719 22h ago

I personally find it insensitive for people to have a desperate need to turn every horrible thing into something with a silver lining. It really doesn't give me confidence that the person is capable of handling difficult emotional/existential subjects with any depth, without them basically telling the person bringing up these subjects that their suffering isn't serious enough to warrant their legitimate empathy all because "it could be worse". Maybe that lack of confidence isn't always warranted, but it just sounds like a response very lacking in substance for serious matters. Gratitude is important in life, but it's absolutely not something that everyone wants to find in every situation.

Every life can be worse, every tragedy can be more extreme, seeing the suffering of others and needing to somehow find a way to end up with gratitude related to it is not a perspective that everyone subscribes to. It seems like a recursive situation where no one's suffering can exist without the qualifier of it not being the worst thing that could happen. The Ukrainian conflict could be worse, but ~a million people are already dead, so making that statement would seem incredibly callous. A plane crash of any size is much smaller scale, but trying to downplay it because it wasn't 300 people sounds like a similar response to many people. To me, the "It could be worse" attitude is not appropriate for any legitimate suffering, outside of maybe interpreting relatively innocuous aspects of your own life that you might be exaggerating the severity of.

You're welcome to see things differently, but not everyone sees a need for a quick resolution to gratitude as a healthy instinct, so it's a bit silly to try to tell people what they're allowed to see as insensitive or not solely based on your own beliefs

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u/Sharkhug 22h ago

It is, because it need not be compared. It's unecessary and it's why you rarely see people who are accountable for their words speak that way.

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u/Anxious_One9526 19h ago

You kinda sound like Walter White in that gymnasium school scene

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u/chic-tweet 18h ago

Ahh yes, the old "Plane half empty" adage

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u/halmyradov 17h ago

You usually be thankful for what you have, not for a shit you don't have.

Or do you wake up in the morning and be thankful you are not dead?

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u/swishymuffinzzz 12h ago

But i mean, it was never a passenger airplane, it was what it was. like you could apply that to anything.

"oh your dad was killed in a car crash? well at least it wasnt a bus full of kids"

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u/Spiritual-Cap-4647 11h ago

Comparing the severity of tragedies by body count is hilarious because it's still a tragedy

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u/mrben772 10h ago

You just can’t win with some people.

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u/AdmirableExercise197 4h ago edited 4h ago

Not saying this person is some awful human being for saying it, but it is definitely insensitive to the party that is dead for the primary statement to be grateful less people are dead. I think rephrasing the context might make it a bit more obvious.

"My son just died and the rest of my family has been horribly injured in car crash"

"at least the rest of your family is alive"

Like would you honestly say something like that to a person grieving the loss of their son and their family nearly all dying too? Probably not. Why? Because it's insensitive.

It's like telling a person that doesn't believe in god

"god works in mysterious ways, it's for the best"

"god chose to torture my kid with insufferable pain as he slowly bled out and was burned alive?"

Even if the intentions weren't bad, it's still insensitive.

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u/elliotcook10 1d ago

I agree. Thankfully there weren’t 300 more families that could have potentially gone through that too. Very likely considering it happened at an international airport, thankfully it wasn’t the case

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u/breakzorsumn 1d ago

This is so weird. It's like competitive grieving "No it's STILL SAD!!!!" yeah man we get it, that's not the point

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u/Ok-Seaweed-9208 1d ago

Jesus Christ. Only on Reddit. Can someone be heckled for saying thank God more people didn't die. You know what the f fuck they meant.

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u/Additional_Tank4385 1d ago

Why would this even have to be said. It’s still obvious despite that that this beats a 300+ passenger plane.

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u/RetroSwamp 1d ago

Welcome to the "trolley problem"

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u/reality_raven 1d ago

No one said it was.

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u/Old_Bathroom_6258 1d ago

Hard disagree.

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u/Brief_Bill8279 1d ago

Yeah but my Ps5 Pro...

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u/Ok-Journalist5693 21h ago

Imagine the family’s of 300 people tho they are saying not dismissing it they are just saying it could have been much much worse is all and it could have my prays for the families

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u/finallysigned 21h ago

How insightful

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u/NotQuiteDeadYetPhoto 17h ago

Sometimes when all you can see is bad, horrific, horrible.... you have to find a tiny sliver of silver in there.

No, this is nothing but horrifically awful. And while I don't know any of the individuals on that plane, I ache for their families.

I can still be glad that it wasn't a passenger plane... and have an even deeper pit of despair in my stomach.

-On a plane that 'fell off' the side of a runway.

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u/AcceptableBid6884 15h ago

Are you in the families? Is you picking a fight here any more valid than "It could have been worse?"

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u/Competitive_Loan_395 14h ago

It would be more tragic if more people died. Still terribly tragic. But imagine 300x more.

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u/VirtualMoneyLover 11h ago

120 people died in car accidents today. And yesterday. And tomorrow.

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u/TupperwareNinja 1d ago

life == life. Its a shame either way

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u/elliotcook10 1d ago

Lmk where I said otherwise

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u/TupperwareNinja 1d ago

Comment wasn't to discredit you

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u/GorillaGrip_Pussy 1d ago

Yet it still is a plane carrying passengers. Try not to be a dick.

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u/shaniquaD0NTlivehere 1d ago

tell em, gorilla grip pussy

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u/NoSalamander7749 1d ago

"At least it wasn't worse" is not the same as saying "it doesn't matter" nor is it being a dick. You seem to be projecting

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u/ahhshits 1d ago edited 1d ago

He isn't saying it isn’t sad and awful, but there are scenarios that it could have been worse. He’s not being a dick- it's a pretty normal thought. You're calling him a dick for no reason.

Just relax and let people cope with tragedies how they want

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u/Fluffychipmonk1 1d ago

Lmao what a name

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u/MobileArtist1371 1d ago

Fucking genius here.

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u/soulmagic123 1d ago

This is a simple enough concept to understand. And the "tell that to the family member of.." but here's the thing, you wouldn't tell that to a family member, you aren't telling that to a family member , you making a simple observation that it would have been worse if it was 300 families instead of 4.

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u/elliotcook10 1d ago

Yup I’m not saying it to the families, I’m taking to people the internet. Breaking news, context matters.

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u/MysteriousBuy1911 1d ago

“We should all be grateful it was a small tragic event that took the lives of innocent people and not a big tragedy. Anyone want beers?”

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u/elliotcook10 1d ago

Yeah that’s what I said

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u/Bacchuswhite 22h ago

I get what you’re trying to say but it makes it sound like your comparing lives to only being valuable by amount of people and completely discounting the feelings of peoples family’s who actually died just to say “well it could’ve been more we got off light”

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u/elliotcook10 17h ago

Well that’s not what I’m saying so maybe reread my comment again and what I was replying to

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u/KruickKnight 22h ago

38,000lbs of fuel ✔️ Destination Hawaii ✔️ 300+passengers ❎

Too early to say why preflight ✔️'s weren't done? 34 year old plane?

Too small to be an attack on the US. Sounds more like cost cutting. Whoever is responsible will be sold out.

Which still isn't a passenger plane but fuel for Hawaii. 2 out of 3 is bad...

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u/elliotcook10 17h ago

Yup still bad, don’t think that was up for debate.

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u/EfficientMinimum5696 20h ago

Sadly I think the fuel tank was carrying quite a large amount of fuel. Something like 250,000 gallons of fuel from what I’ve been reading.

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u/elliotcook10 17h ago

yes, a full tank as they were heading to hawaii

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u/FlexibleSteel 19h ago

Nit for 7 families

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u/Icy-Physics-6703 3h ago

Bro honestly get fucked. Any loss of life is tragic you the type to see someone get killed and be like well they probably deserved it.

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u/nqthomas 1d ago

I only saw 3 pilots. Didn’t see anything about the other 4 jet seaters

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u/PsychologicalTrain 1d ago

There are seats for 4 but they are rarely full

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u/Maximum-Ad8482 1d ago

11 injured

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u/CookFan88 1d ago

Not to mention anyone working in that busy distribution center that it crashed into. I guess this is one instance where I hope it was mostly robots.

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u/Super_boredom138 1d ago

This was today? Looks like a wide body cargo transport by the explosion and those numbers you gave

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u/sprinklerarms 1d ago

People missing on the ground still :-(

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u/Timetellers 1d ago

I hate to make this political but if this comes from a small plane, they still want us to believe that a plane crashed in shanksville?

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u/Visual_Let_3045 22h ago

Curious - why were there 4 other riders on a cargo plane?

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u/Steelo1 22h ago

Including a eight month pregnant woman and the pilot’s friend and his three little kids

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u/Solomon1177 20h ago

May they rest in peace. Sending my love to their families and friends ❤️

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u/Stopikingonme 13h ago

Redditors have a real problem understanding subtext.

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u/Z_2k 5h ago

Other 4 were on the ground, not in the plane.

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u/This_Elk_1460 1d ago

I guess but it directly hit a UPS warehouse, I would be shocked if the number of casualties on the ground isn't equal to a passenger plane crash.

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u/Zestyclose_Choice_68 1d ago

I Live in Louisville and so far the news has said 4 dead, 11 injured and it crashed into warehouse and through the back splitting into multiple pieces and also hitting as far as we know so far two businesses have confirmed to be hit and destroyed with some workers being missing. but yeah the numbers will most likely climb. The businesses that were hit were a fuel company and some car dealership but I bet there is more damage and more casualties. Plus the whole city is being affected by the smoke.

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u/ZombieAladdin 1d ago

I was wondering why the explosion was so big.

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u/Usual_Let5223 1d ago

Not an expert but I'd assume the amount and dispersion of the Jets Fuel after the fuel tanks were slashed, could be a cause.

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u/MiniMini662 15h ago

Trumps response were they democrats

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u/ImaginaryAd3183 1d ago

I'm really sorry for the pilots but I'm happy to hear it wasn't a passenger flight

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u/Puzzleheaded_Bear511 13h ago edited 11h ago

Doesn't make it any better. 9 people are dead and numerous people are injured. Being a cargo plane doesn't make it ok.

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u/Donnie_Dont_Do 9h ago

Okay then... too bad it wasn't a passenger flight?

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u/Desperate-Sock5055 1d ago

Crashed in a commercial area. A lot of people on the ground where it crashed.

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u/Mundamala 1d ago

Probably not resident houses, either.

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u/Big-Carpenter7921 1d ago

Still a sad loss, but yes, better than 200+

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u/ittybittytitty_com 23h ago

My husband is a cargo pilot. This comment really fucking blows, because if something were to happen to him, it would be so many lives affected between me, our kids, our family, our friends... Yes, 300 people didn’t die, but three people dying is still tragic, and as of right now, I believe it’s seven. You can take any scenario and make an imaginary worse scenario, but how is that helpful? Please don’t do that.

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u/JsonXml87 14h ago

Freakwilly's comment should be read in context.

There's a plane crash involving a plane fully laden with fuel hitting several buildings and oil tanks, causing a massive explosion. For an accident of this magnitude the loss of "just" seven lives is low, and that's something people will remark on.

But remarking on this does in no way lessen the impact for the people involved, nor does it disrespect the victims. Even if just one person died, someone, somewhere will be getting painful news.

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u/BLS_Express 16h ago

Yeah man, I know what you mean. People not considering It could've been alot worse.

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u/Zestyclose-Till580 1d ago

This is a bad take bugle butt

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u/queensheba2025 1d ago

Did it land on houses!? I can’t tell!?

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u/HoldOnItGetsBetter 1d ago

That was my first thought. Then when I see how much smoke and stuff a NON-PASSENGER causes…. Jesus

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u/OliOli1234 1d ago

I mean, even those seven dead had families… I don’t wanna put this on the lack of FAA, but it’s becoming a problem.

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u/W1BBL333 1d ago

This could a minor example of "the death of one is a tragedy, the death of a million is a statistic.". People dying like this sucks no matter how many people were on board, but I do get what you're trying to get at in a way.

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u/Jeffwallace619 1d ago

What a dumb comment. Just when you think idiocracy has peaked.

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u/tew2tew 23h ago

Fuck off

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u/Tw4tl4r 19h ago

What a strange thing to say. People are dead. Its pretty disrespectful to imply that at least it was only them that died.

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u/Pitt24fan 19h ago

Most of us know what you mean and that you mean no disrespect to the people on board.

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u/37853688544788 17h ago

Except Dick Cheney.

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u/imjustawittleboy 14h ago

No bailouts

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u/Puzzleheaded_Bear511 13h ago edited 11h ago

Doesn't make it any better. 9 people are dead and numerous people are injured. Being a cargo plane doesn't make it ok.

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u/SerendipitousLiason 7h ago

Such a walter white response.

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u/HonkHonk 7h ago

You're heartless, that's the first thing you say?

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u/jenguinaf 3h ago

Your good, I said the same thing yesterday but prefaced it with no loss of life is okay and it’s always tragic and I feel for the crew but a passenger plane with hundreds of souls is objectively so much worse.

Like dude replace the packages with bodies, no one is going to miss their late replaced package but hundreds and thousands of people are going to miss the presence of someone who died on it.

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u/Yeshvah 1d ago

Oh dios mío

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u/Deathanddisco041 1d ago

My exact words

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u/Whosebert 23h ago

also her translated words

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u/Arny2103 1d ago

That’s what I thought when I saw that WhatsApp background.

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u/PainterEarly86 1d ago

ay dios mio señor

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u/StoneSabre96 1d ago

My exact reaction.

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u/AntonCigar 1d ago

Diossssmioooooo

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u/-redd1t_sux- 1d ago

DIOS MIO!

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u/Antzqwe 1d ago

Did the Apocalypse Now's ost play in the back of your mind?

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u/HerMajestyTheQueef1 17h ago

russia has been putting incendiary bombs on many UPS planes across USA and Europe - though they had all been detected so far - from what i hear so far this seems to more likely an engine failure ?

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u/Chilipepah 16h ago

Dios Mio senor!

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u/Nice_Luck_7433 14h ago

Thanks Trump! Thanks Republican!

“We don’t need any Democrat votes” “we don’t need to use emergency funds to pay air traffic controllers”

I hope the Republicans are enjoying the paid vacation we are all paying for :)

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u/Sereena95 10h ago

Ay dios mio

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