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I guess in continuation from the last post I made about showing my parents a bunch of plane crashes (first one was Saudia 163), my parents (my dad in particular) had some thoughts to share on what they saw and now know about each flight

1. British Airways flight 9 (speedbird 9 incident) from Mayday: obviously all of us were happy everybody survived this flight. Mom got a little jazzed up when she heard the flight took of from Malaysia since she is from there. Dad went straight to the point and said "if the pilots of saudia 163 were on this flight, the plane might as well have crashed into the ocean". They also found it intriguing what can happen if a plane flies through volcanic ash.

2. South African Airways flight 295 from Disaster Breakdown: this one my parents found quite scary. Dad agreed with me that flying in the 80s is much riskier than doing it today especially given how common in flight fires use to be. He also found it quite amazing the routes SAA used to fly because of Apartheid, especially their flight from Tel Aviv. He said in quote "imagine how expensive tickets like that would've cost".

3. Adam Air flight 574 from Disaster Breakdown: as soon as we finished the video, my dad told my mom "never book these low cost carriers again" haha. When we got to the part where they talked about how the pilots were not properly trained on certain systems, all of us found it shocking that an airlines would lower training standards like that. Furthermore, when they heard that up to 15 other airlines were blacklisted for cutting similar corners, it made my dad (and i) quite furious. In addition, my dad agreed it made sense why Indonesian airlines were banned from the EU for a period of time. And finally, the CVR was just genuinely disturbing especially toward the end and in the lead up to the pilots making errors.

4. Iran Air flight 655 from Mayday: both my parents found this to be horrifying and terrible to have happened. My mom said herself that Iran's anger toward us is now understandable (frankly I agree with her in context of this incident). My dad found it absolutely outrageous how a modern US naval ship mistook a passenger plane for an enemy fighter jet and how they were operating in Iranian territory and not neutral waters. Given the cirumstances and the outcome of this incident, I think this one was the saddest of the ones we have seen thus far.

Once again, I know none of yall asked for this type of post & I do apologize for its length but once again I'm an aviation fanatic like a lot of yall and I figured I'd share more of it with my family and this is really just their thoughts on all these incidents. And with that being said I figured I'd share all this info with you guys. Hope you guys enjoyed reading!

(For clarification info, I live in Florida & it has been almost 2 hrs since these events I’m describing and I don’t know what has become of the situation since then)

Just after midnight tonight I was on my way back to home via the highway after dropping off my gf when I saw a reckless (and possibly drunk) driver. I did what I had to do and called 911, relayed whatever I could, and gave my contact information since they asked for it. And since the driver was driving a bit worse I did what I had to do and just drove off not wanting to put myself in danger. That all being said, what’s gonna happen to me after? Will they call me back for more information? Will I have to give testimony or something? I’ve never had to do any of this or even call 911 for anything like this before so that’s why I’m asking

so I’m a USFSP student and not a U Tampa student but I had Shtogun for my physics 2 lab class in the fall. it was a lab class and not a full on lecture class which is why I wanted to ask on here if anybody has experience with him as a lecture instructor. I’m supposed to retake physics 2 lecture in the fall. that being said, is he good? are his classes passable? I want to know yalls thoughts if possible. thanks in advance

HSC4211 (health, behavior, and society) is a summer class my advisor recommended and I wanna know if people can share experiences from it and which instructor you recommend

to clarify this doesn’t exactly have to do with ACI as I didn’t show him the mayday episode, but last night with YouTube attached to our TV I decided to show my parents a YouTube video which talked about the Saudia 163 tragedy. My parents (particularly my dad who also takes similar interest) had not heard of the accident so I figured I’d show it to them. He was in absolute disbelief when he heard about the actions of the flight crew and their pure incompetence. And just to mention, he actually knew someone who died on avianca flight 52 from NYC and hearing about this accident immediately reminded him of flight 52.

this was probably very unimportant to share on this subreddit but I guess I’m happy to say that common sense still remains in some people particularly when my dad said “we’re not pilots but even then we know to go back if there’s smoke on a plane”

I asked this in another community so I figured I'd ask here as well, to any current CO here, the title question pretty much speaks for itself. what drew you to corrections over let’s just say being a cop or really any other career both LE or non LE?

I travel pretty frequently and I'm an aviation fanatic of sorts but I just wanted to ask from everyone's experience what they thought was the best airline when flying to anywhere in Asia? I'm partly asking for planning future trips and because in winter my fam are still trying to find flights from Hong Kong to where we live (TPA FL) that DON"T involve Qatar Airways (for current events reasons). I've seen options like Lufthansa, Finnair, KLM, China Airlines, Ethiopian, but again I just want to hear anyone's input

EDIT: we already have flights going from TPA to Asia. It is the flights coming back we need help with finding recommendations for