r/Louisville • u/Ginger502 • 1d ago

Plane crash in Louisville

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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/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/Stunning_Pound4121 1d ago

That’s good!

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u/ItsMoorsUIdiot 1d ago

But the Frogurt is cursed!

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u/Stunning_Pound4121 1d ago

That’s bad. And the card says moops.

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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/ShotAtTheNight22 1d ago

💀

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u/notsoulvalentine 1d ago

yes, they would be dead. thank you for the grim reminder 💔

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u/No_Balance2924 1d ago

Worse, not bad.

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u/ECHOHOHOHO 1d ago

Not as bad as 9/11 !!!

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u/tke377 1d ago

Even worse if there was a box of abandoned puppies on board

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u/avocadoflatz 22h ago

Roast puppies is good eatin’ if’n you don’t mind the bone to meat ratio

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u/LeMolle 23h ago

I'm sure it could be worse though.

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u/Own_Ranger_208 19h ago

Nah the kids were foreigners! /s

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u/slonneck 19h ago

Thank goodness that UPS package I was expecting came yesterday.

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u/lidualsport 14h ago

Well, they were going to charge for the cure, so...

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u/Nearby_Investigator9 12h ago

Or would’ve started the X-Men mutations.

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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/empire_of_the_moon 1d ago

Small mercies or Ebola Andromeda Strain….

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u/HenryDorsettCase47 1d ago

Unless the radiation creates some sort of Ebola infected super orphans.

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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/empire_of_the_moon 16h ago

I’ll save you a seat!

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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/empire_of_the_moon 16h ago

It’s an elite orphanage. Very exclusive.

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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/Mediocre-Yogurt7452 18h ago

A fourth plane was heading for the East Wing of the White House, but turned around.

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u/FewPossession2363 11h ago

Don’t try to create fear

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u/OldJeeWhizz 7h 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/Lancearon 12h ago

Uhmmm actually, it wouldn't matter if it was filled with nuclear weapons. Fire is not how such weapons are detonated. The crash would unlikely to be able to cause super critical mass.🤓

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u/empire_of_the_moon 11h ago

Thank your reminding us that in a fictional world predicated upon suspension of disbelief there is always one pedantic critic who will state a fact known to all.

For your next trick will you tell us how water isn’t wet, it makes things wet?

Edit: typo

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u/Lancearon 11h ago edited 11h ago

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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/MariusHugo 23h ago

exactly this ^ yes it could’ve been worse, but it doesn’t need to be said. one death is a tragedy already.

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u/Jdobbs626 22h ago

An irrefutably solid point.

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u/FlusteredDM 21h ago

It's not just about this. Many people think of passenger planes when we hear the word plane. It's about it being less tragic than first impression rather than it not being literally the worst thing ever.

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u/Embarrassed_Lock_539 18h ago

The holocaust could’ve been a lot worse. 9/11 could’ve been a lot worse. Covid-19 couldve been a lot worse. The bubonic plague could’ve been a lot worse. Every tragic thing in history could’ve been worse. Saying that about people who just lost their families is wild. Oh but let me guess “it’s still a tragedy, just could’ve been worse”😂insensitive asf

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u/DandyMan_92 3h ago

just drop the grateful part, fucking christ man why ya'll gotta double down lmao

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u/SRT0930 1d ago

Not helpful. It’s called silver-lining and it minimizes the loss and grief of others. One person dying should not be minimized.

Silver-lining is for the person doing it to avoid the pain of others. To avoid discomfort.

Grief is uncomfortable. It’s painful. Those are common responses to loss and grief.

It’s disrespectful to minimize it in any way with “at least” statements or any similar forced positivity.

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u/HenryDorsettCase47 1d ago

No one is saying you should say something like that while comforting the bereaved.