South Africa vs AB Stadium near disaster?

[CloudStuff]

Have seen a few videos, thought AI at first.

Will find an image I can post, but anybody else here think that was mighty close??

[demic]

From about 2:30 in

https://youtu.be/UWQ8DGNDvic?is=DB3ReD5h2EAvJVGk

Plenty of videos on twitter of it including from on the stadium roof.

Edit:

https://x.com/hermux/status/2093750040523096408?s=...

Plenty of room nothing to see here!

Edited by demic on Saturday 29th August 21:20

[CloudStuff]

I’m a mere civilian, but the clearance from the roof seemed more than a little tight!

[butchstewie]

One for the experts and any investigation I suppose but the angle does seem to make it look either fine or really close.

https://x.com/jaredwright17/status/209390953380232...

[Lefty]

I suspect there's a perspective thing going on here

These cows are small and far away.

[normalbloke]

There is a lot of the usual handwringing,frothing and gum bumping going on over this.The airline have released a statement about it.

[MiniMan64]

Lefty said:

I suspect there's a perspective thing going on here

These cows are small and far away.

I think it really was that low, Flightradar reported between 12 and 14m above the roof….

[Davetheraver]

[Eric Mc]

Not much room for error - especially the lower aircraft. I expect that the manoeuver didn't go quite to plan but they are pretending all was well.

All will be well - until it isn't.

[Tannedbaldhead]

Watched it.

A bit neat.

[_Rodders_]

Virtually every video looked like AI or a clip from Flight Simulator.

I guess because it's hard for your brain to compute a regular aircraft doing that.

[CloudStuff]

If you guys think it’s fine, and it’s your area of expertise then I bow to that.

But it certainly looks a bit tight to me.

I wonder what their equivalent of the CAA makes of it? Maybe it’s a case of “any rugby test you walk away from with a win, is a good one”.

Here we’d have a judge led public enquiry lasting 10 years, promising that lessons will be learnt.

[WH16]

Pre briefed, good weather, looked tight but I guess someone somewhere signed it off.

[bobbo89]

Whole load of fun sponges online frothing over this, I thought it was cool AF and it's what I want to see, fly overs are all way too high these days!

[Petrus1983]

bobbo89 said:

Whole load of fun sponges online frothing over this, I thought it was cool AF and it's what I want to see, fly overs are all way too high these days!

Mainly agree but if the weather/conditions within the stadium caused the lower plane to drop a wing it would have been extremely close.

[aeropilot]

demic said:

Plenty of videos on twitter of it including from on the stadium roof.

Edit:

https://x.com/hermux/status/2093750040523096408?s=...

Plenty of room nothing to see here!

Yep...... loads of room there, what's all the fuss about...

[Countdown]

To be fair these things almost never go wrong…

[aeropilot]

Countdown said:

To be fair these things almost never go wrong

Almost never..... and often followed by the phrase "watch this".....

Just like the pilot of that Turkish AF F-16 a couple of weeks ago, that ripped off the external fuel tanks as he did a 'show off' flypast over some trees, and had to bang out sharpish before the jet ploughed into the ground.

[demic]

aeropilot said:

Yep...... loads of room there, what's all the fuss about...

Pretty reckless in my opinion as a casual observer even if it was “planed and briefed”. It’s one thing doing these stunts over runways and airfields where if it goes wrong you might kill yourself, and take a few others with you. It’s a completely different matter when your ego takes hundreds out.

[hidetheelephants]

I'd like to think the CAA would investigate it promptly and if necessary give the pilots a bit of gardening leave if it happened here, but SA is a failing state so even if it is as dangerous as it looks palms are likely to be greased rather than investigations and licence suspension.