777F VERY low pass in Texas

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How low you can you go...
 
mwflyer said:
So no one from either of the two owners of the plane previous (mammoth) or current (Qatar) were in control of or owned the plane at the time of the incident. LOL!
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Qatar leases most of their freighters. They won't be the owner of this one, even once they get it.

This whole debacle is totally in the hands of the leasing company that purchased the aircraft from Mammoth to lease to Qatar.
 
Wardogg said:
Impressive.

You can do whatever you want, on your last flight.
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Except for the poor dude/dudette in the right seat who’s gonna have to explain why he/she allowed this circus stunt and hope not to get fired. We had a couple of those at brown…
Hopefully they filled the voice recorder with “I’m not comfortable with this”, “This isn’t safe..” “You shouldn’t do this..” etc to help CYA in the debrief.

Just a little rant..
Don’t mean to be a Karen or a buzz kill here BUT….Yea, it looks cool and would probably be a lot of fun to do and we all dream of doing it, but I have little sympathy for any Capt who jeopardizes the f/o’s career or public safety by doing a stunt like this (unless you’re Tex Johnson or Bob Hoover of course😜). This could’ve ended very bad with more than just a slap on the wrist. Man, that wingtip was danger close to the ground…😖
 
Never get why pilots do this kind of stupid stuff in these kinds of planes. It’s a fatty airplane. There is absolutely nothing exciting, interesting nor remotely tactical about a fatty airplane. Trying to turn a boring-as-designed fatty airplane into something it is not, through unnecessary maneuvers it’s not optimized for and which have little room for error, is a dangerous fools errand.
 
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MikeD said:
Never get why pilots do this kind of stupid stuff in these kinds of planes. It’s a fatty airplane. There is absolutely nothing exciting, interesting nor remotely tactical about a fatty airplane. Trying to turn a boring-as-designed fatty airplane into something it is not, through unnecessary maneuvers it’s not optimized for and which have little room for error, is a dangerous fools errand.
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Roger Roger said:
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Yup. It would be perfectly fine to do a flyby down the runway in machines like this at 500 AGL+ with a wing dip, mild banked turn or regular climb. Trying to turn these types of jets into fighters, which they are not, maneuvering them far beyond their normal envelope, leads to the most exciting part of their show being a smoking hole in the ground. The risk just isn’t worth the reward.

In the late 1980s, Strategic Air Command wanted a demonstration team to be like Tactical Air Command’s Thunderbirds. The Thunderhawks were created, that would consist of a KC-135 and a B-52 putting on a show of a series of flybys with loose formation and a simulation of air refueling. During practice at Fairchild AFB (same place the bottom picture of the Holland crash was taken), in 1987, the KC-135 was maneuvering to the six o’clock of the B-52 to rejoin with them and take lead from them. The KC-135 hit the wake turbulence of the B-52 at low altitude while in a turn to parallel their course, Rolled in the wake and impacted the ground, killing all four crew onboard and one person on the ground. In an amazing irony, twist of fate, and Final Destination-esqe occurrence, the guy on the ground who was killed, was the boom operator of that KC-135 demo team bird. This boom operator had called in sick for that flight and was replaced by another boom operator. The first boom operator was driving around the runway perimeter road headed to the base clinic for an appointment after being taken off the flight, when the KC-135 doing the practice hit the wake turbulence, and rolled into the ground, impacting the prior boom operators car and killing him along with everyone else on the plane.
 
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MikeD said:
Never get why pilots do this kind of stupid stuff in these kinds of planes. It’s a fatty airplane. There is absolutely nothing exciting, interesting nor remotely tactical about a fatty airplane. Trying to turn a boring-as-designed fatty airplane into something it is not, through unnecessary maneuvers it’s not optimized for and which have little room for error, is a dangerous fools errand.
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Because they think they are infallible and humility is internally processed as portraying outward ineptitude or cowardice. It's the origin of "Hold my beer!". Not all pilots or people are afflicted with this attitude but a large percentage of pilots are, and it isn't confined to a cockpit. Why do many pilots own fast cars and engage in dangerous activities? Before anyone gets wound up I said a percentage of pilots do these things, so does a percentage of general society, but the dude running from the cops at night on a liter bike might have the same mindset as a pilot that gets that low in a 777.
 
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