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often found on an airplane

[Steve Giordano @SteveNomadic]

OMG. I ‘may have’ just watched the whole thing. I gotta get this dude on the pod!

[Kit @kitLongfellow]

Holy crap!

[FL360aero @fl360aero]

Tragic development: A private jet has crashed during an emergency landing attempt at La Romana International Airport in the Dominican Republic.

#aircraft

[Francisco Cunha @OnDisasters]

The first accident covered by Mayday - Air Crash Investigation

On this day in 1999: American Airlines Flight 1420, an MD-82, crashes in Little Rock (Arkansas, US), 11 of 145 aboard die. On landing, the jet overran the runway and hit airport structures. Factors: crew actions – continuing approach in bad weather, improper use of spoilers, etc- fatigue, poor CRM, others (as detailed below)

From the NTSB report - (...) "The probable causes of this accident were the flight crew's failure to discontinue the approach when severe thunderstorms and their associated hazards to flight operations had moved into the airport area, and the crew's failure to ensure that the spoilers had extended after touchdown.

Contributing to the accident were the flight crew's (1) impaired performance resulting from fatigue, and the situational stress associated with the intent to land under the circumstances; (2) continuation of the approach to a landing when the company's maximum crosswind component was exceeded; and (3) use of reverse thrust greater than 1.3 engine pressure ratio after landing."

The events of Flight 1420 were featured in the first ever episode of the famous Mayday - Air Crash Investigation series, entitled "Racing the Storm", which debuted in 2003*.

(Some folks might ask why the show´s crash animation isn´t here, but simply because this one, produced by the NTSB, is clearer to explain what happened)

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

TOP GUN: MAVERICK was released 4 years ago today. A long-awaited follow-up to the 1980s action classic, and the most commercially successful Tom Cruise film ever, the behind-the-scenes story will give you the need for speed…

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[Kit @kitLongfellow]

WOW

[PHIVOLCS-DOST @phivolcs_dost]

LOOK!!! PHIVOLCS’ Ligñon Hill IP Camera records a meteor striking the northern slopes of Mayon Volcano at 10:33 PM this evening, 25 May 2026.

#MayonVolcano

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

TOP GUN was released 40 years ago today. One of the definitive 1980s action films, and among the most popular of its star, Tom Cruise, the story behind the scenes will take your breath away…

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[Kit @kitLongfellow]

Bags priority tagged, they were literally the first on the belt! Ganto pala feeling pag high roller. Hahahaha.

[Aviation Archive - Tim Farmer @aviationarchive]

Audio from January 4th, 1989, when two F-14 Tomcats off the USS Kennedy (CV-67) intercepted two Libyan MiG-23 Floggers. Sidewinders and Sparrows were fired and two MiG's were destroyed(pilots survived)—USS Kennedy also went into Alert 5 preparing to destroy all of Libya.

[Kit @kitLongfellow]

HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[キツーカ @kitsuka18]

こいつはすげぇや

[Kit @kitLongfellow]

Bakit adjustment? Call a spade a spade and label it as it is - cancellation!

[GMA News @gmanews]

PAL SCHEDULE ADJUSTMENTS

READ: Flag carrier Philippine Airlines announced on Monday several schedule adjustments starting in April and May 2026 due to changing conditions affecting global aviation.

COURTESY: Philippine Airlines/Facebook

[Francisco Cunha @OnDisasters]

"You can Allways go-Around" - an aviation safety themed country song (yes, for real)

📹Hema Yadav

[Kit @kitLongfellow]

HAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Julian Dorey @juliandorey]

the judi dench cameo fucking sent me 🤣😭

[🇺🇸𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿⚓️ @USN_Submariner]

40 years ago today: a collision occurred between USS Georgia (SSBN-729) & harbor tug USS Secota (YTM-415). The entire incident caught on video, which every submariner since has watched as part of lessons learned training, the unfortunate comment about the mail becoming infamous.
Georgia had just completed a personnel transfer approximately 3nm south of Midway when USS Secota lost power. The powerless 100-foot tug became entangled with the boomer's stern plane while the boat's screw was still turning, causing the tug to quickly flood & sink. While ten crewmen were rescued, two tragically lost their lives. USS Georgia suffered only minor damage to its stern plane & returned to port for repairs.

[The Aviationist @TheAviationist]

You are at the beach in the UAE and see a Shahed-136 flying overhead, and later a UAEAF F-16 firing a Sidewinder to shoot down the drone. That’s how crazy the war in the Gulf region is nowadays.

[Mio_Sub🇯🇵 @MyColleagueMio2]

The Tokyo Maritime Self-Defense Force Band's "Space Battleship Yamato" performance is epic! 🎶 Their passionate rendition of the iconic anime theme is truly captivating. ✨

[Thenewarea51 @thenewarea51]

B-1B Bombers coming from Operation Epic Fury divert to Germany due to bad weather in the UK this morning.

Callsign: MOLT 11 x 3 B-1Bs diverted to Ramstein Air Base due to fog at RAF Fairford.

1 B-1B declared an emergency and advised ATC they had hung ordnance.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

When the US glide bomb struck the IRIS Shahid Sayyad Shirazi near Qeshm Island on March 4, the impact triggered an involuntary event that nobody in the coverage has fully examined: the stricken corvette spontaneously launched one of its own anti-ship missiles. The weapon fired itself. Not as a last act of defiance from a crew executing a terminal order. The structural damage from the strike activated the launch sequence without human input.

That detail is the most technically significant event in the naval dimension of this war.

The Shahid Sayyad Shirazi is the third vessel of the Soleimani-class, the IRGC Navy’s most advanced surface combatant. Pennant FS313-03. Commissioned February 2024. The class was Iran’s answer to the problem of contested littoral warfare in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz: a wave-piercing catamaran hull approximately 65 to 68 meters in length, composite construction designed to reduce radar cross-section, four indigenous diesel engines producing confirmed speeds of 32 knots with promotional claims reaching 45, and an armament package that makes every other ship in its weight class irrelevant by comparison. Six anti-ship cruise missiles of the Noor, Ghadir, or Nasir class on deck launchers. A vertical launch system carrying between six and sixteen Sayad surface-to-air missiles plus additional cells for Abu-Mahdi long-range cruise missiles. Six 20-millimeter Gatling guns. A helipad for a medium combat helicopter. Capacity to deploy three fast-attack boats simultaneously. On a 600-tonne displacement hull.

Iran built this ship specifically for the Hormuz chokepoint. The catamaran design provides speed and stability in the confined, shallow waters of the Gulf that a conventional monohull cannot match. The composite hull reduces the radar signature that adversaries need to acquire targeting solutions. The VLS integration gives a vessel of this size a defensive envelope against air attack that most navies reserve for ships four times the displacement. The speed and fast-boat deployment capacity fit exactly into the IRGC Navy’s doctrine of saturation from multiple simultaneous vectors.

A US aircraft dropped a single glide bomb. The ship caught fire. It spontaneously launched a missile. CENTCOM confirmed the strike. Multiple cameras captured the burning hull offshore Qeshm Island with smoke rising through the Strait of Hormuz.

The spontaneous missile launch is the detail that defines the engagement. A VLS or deck-launched anti-ship missile under normal conditions requires crew input, targeting data, and deliberate firing authorization. When a strike disrupts the electrical and structural integrity of the vessel sufficiently to trigger an unintended launch, the weapon system designed to protect the ship becomes a hazard launched into the Strait of Hormuz at whatever bearing the launcher happened to be pointing. Every tanker, patrol boat, or allied vessel within the weapon’s acquisition envelope during those seconds faced a missile fired by a ship that no longer had a crew in control of it.

No second-order casualties were reported from the spontaneous launch. The missile either failed to acquire a target, impacted water, or flew a trajectory that missed occupied vessels. The outcome was fortunate. The mechanism was not controllable.

Iran commissioned this ship fourteen months ago. It was designed to be their most dangerous surface unit in the world’s most contested waterway. It fired its own weapon at the waterway it was built to control before going down.

https://t.co/ULBgEzZ3A8

[Kit @kitLongfellow]

Holy fuck! First combat use of the ADCAP!!!!!

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Periscope footage of a US Navy Submarine torpedoing the Iranian Frigate Dena off the coast of Sri Lanka.

The Mk. 48 Torpedo’s 650 pound warhead can be seen detonating under the Iranian Frigate’s stern.

[Tiffany Fong @TiffanyFong]

Marco Rubio realizing he’s the new Supreme Leader of Iran.

[John Tawasil 🔬🎬 @present_confusn]

This immortal film was shot here in the Philippines (in fact Dick Israel played a rapist here.)

A fun topic to explore would be the history of foreigners making films here in the PH because we've had that since we've had cinema.