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No injuries were reported, and passengers departing Orlando International Airport were accommodated on another aircraft heading to their destination of Albany, New York, the airline said in a statement. The aircraft was switched to help facilitate an investigation.

Southwest Flight 3278 had been cleared for takeoff and initiated a takeoff roll on a taxiway after the crew mistook the surface for the nearby runway, officials said. But air traffic controllers canceled the clearance before the plane could take off.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

Who hasn't done that ~in flight sim~?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 13 hours ago

A simulator is a great way to live out the perfectly normal and not at all niche dream of taking off from a taxiway rather than a runway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

v1… v2… and.. rotaté… whoops, that was the ramp. Eh, they probably won’t mind.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

This is a random crazy internet comment, but, what if COVID is making everyone dumber? Just something I ponder when I see things like this.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 18 hours ago

Severe covid does cause brain damage. the generalized inflammation from covid affects the brain.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

There are already many significant studies showing a high correlation. Come up with a better conspiracy theory and I'm sure my fellow citizens will vote for it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

My vote is for micro-plastics making us dumber.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Is our kids learning?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago

Ok, hear me out: brain worms.

Everyone can get one, it makes you smart enough to run healthcare in the US almost immediately.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

i think it's more the stress is getting to everyone

[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

Also, CO2 displacing oxygen in the atmosphere means everyones brains are somewhat O2 deficient

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

CAN WE JUST START REPORTING THE FUCKING NEWS?

THIS OOOPSIES NO ONE WAS HURT, SOMEONE ALMOST BARELY DIDNT DO SOMETHING SHIT MEANS NOTHING.

WE ARE SLIDING INTO FASCISM QUICKER THAN SHIT. REPORT IT, SELL THESE MOFHERFUCKERS OUT AND DO THE BARE FUCKING BOTTOM OF THE BARREL REPORTING AT A MINIMUM.

OP, if you're not a bot, you should fucking be ashamed.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Wasn't this related to the fascism in that there's an uptick in plane accidents and near misses since they started fucking with the air traffic controllers?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, there have been 20 deadly plane crashes in 2025, since the presidents started firing air traffic controllers because they were “too woke” or some such nonsense. Prior to this year, the most recent deadly crash involving a US airliner was in 2009.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Yeah... One of those funny things where they 'discover' a load of DEI hires, who happen to be people of colour, women or minorities of some kind. Then when they fired them, so the workforce is all white male, everyone is Safe again... And all the planes start falling out of the sky, but that's just a coincidence and because of the woke or something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I haven't seen any data about an actual increase in incidents. My suspicion is that it's just the news reporting every single incident instead of just the major ones, because it gets clicks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

It's about the same number of incidents (plane crashes, death agnostic), it's just that a week into the new admin, one of them had the most deaths since the autopilot that aims for the ground crashed those planes in 2019.

But since the other side is willing to just outright lie, it's not exactly a high crime not to highlight that technically it's the same number of crashes.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 22 hours ago

Some discussion over on reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1jfzoo1/my_plane_tried_to_take_off_on_a_taxiway/

Including the path of the jet: https://i.imgur.com/QCY0kWO.jpeg

Dumbass crossed one taxiway and started to take off from the second.