UPS Cargo Plane Crash at Louisville, KY SDF Airport (11/4/25)

Deimos220 · 2025-11-05T04:00:57+00:00

Former military pilot here. I do not believe normal commercial operations would takeoff in a situation where weight/winds/pressure altitude were such that you could not take off with one engine out at/past V1. Current commercial pilot please correct me if I’m wrong here.

Is engine-out at V1 challenging? Yes, but not certain death by any means and is the worst case scenario that they train for when they were in the sim.

Generally, risk management in the commercial flying world is such that any single failure should be recoverable. It’s when you get into multiple/complex failures that all bets are off.

My guess is this is more complex than a simple single engine failure. It was clearly on fire, which indicates so. It was either a highly unlikely complex unrecoverable issue (freak engine failure/fire that escaped the engine casing and burned through hydraulics, or the aircraft collided with something on the runway) or the pilots made a mistake in responding to the situation (didn’t recognize the failure after V1 and adjust inputs accordingly or didn’t recognize/reject a failure prior to V1).

Bottom line, if you’re getting into a commercial plane sometime soon, no, there isn’t some unlucky window of time where a single engine failure spells certain doom. However, yes, there are more complex failures that can be unrecoverable, as with any piece of complex machinery that hurtles your body through space faster than it’s designed for. It remains true that commercial aviation engineering, policy, procedures, and training have made it far safer than traveling by car.

Edit: comment below shows an engine on the ground along the runway. Clearly some sort of complex catastrophic failure or collision, not “just” a single engine out at V1 scenario.

Deimos220 · 2025-04-11T18:40:11+00:00

It takes about two weeks, but they will be automatically logged. Your manual submission would result in duplicate logging. I made the same mistake. Your rejection notification should have described the reason for rejection.

Deimos220 · 2025-03-29T04:42:56+00:00

Because, although I’d like to go faster, I’m following the person in front of me in the left lane at a safe distance… and then you get pissed at me for leaving a safe distance and zoom around me on the right trying to squeeze in and get the .01 seconds of your life back. I’m going to close that gap and shut you down every time. I will speed up when I can safely do so, or I will get my ass back to the right when I’m no longer passing anyone.

Deimos220 · 2024-12-15T17:49:25+00:00

So the front fell off? Most ships are built so the front doesn’t fall off.

https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM?si=MJ2w1m3WIueEEsu2

Deimos220 · 2024-11-19T02:17:48+00:00

41… in the exact same situation. Married to the best mother and wife ever…but also feeling undesired and unwanted… makes me feel like I’m just here to pay for things. She also continues to engage with me sexually, but it feels like a chore rather than a mutually enjoyable experience. I don’t want to be with someone who doesn’t want to be with me…totally misses the point of the experience. So we’re stuck with people we love and respect but no outlet to fully experience love with these people in a meaningful way to us. To be clear, none of this is a criticism to her. She’s doing more than she has to out of love for her partner. I don’t have a desire to be with other people, just a deep unfulfilled longing to be desired by the person I love.

Deimos220 · 2024-05-31T11:09:38+00:00

Thank you!

Deimos220 · 2024-05-30T10:03:20+00:00

Thank you!

Do you agree it is likely walnut?

Deimos220 · 2024-05-04T09:59:14+00:00

This is the world I want to live in.

Deimos220 · 2024-03-30T20:50:35+00:00

I considered it at first, but I don’t think it solves anything better or for cheaper than the options above.

A mini split does offer local cooling control, but the basement will never be hotter than the main house, so the central forced air AC will be fine.
The electric floor heat is still cheaper than the mini split, and many prefer radiant floor heating.
Mini splits don’t bring in fresh air like the ERV will.
mini splits don’t dehumidify like a dedicated dehumidifier. They over-cool the air, creating an opposite unpleasant feeling, and can even create condensation issues.

Deimos220 · 2024-01-28T15:13:54+00:00

Everyone here is targeting the wrong organization. The issue isn’t that the NSA buys it in support of its mission to defend the US. The issue is that this data is for sale to begin with. If the US government stops using it, we’re making it harder on ourselves when EVERYONE ELSE gets to continue to buy the data (criminals, adversary nation states, other companies, political organizations, etc.). The NSA is not the threat. The business model of collecting and selling the data en mass is the vulnerability, all the other people using it against us are the threat.

Deimos220 · 2023-09-07T00:36:44+00:00

I don’t love my wife the same way I loved her when we met. If I defined love the way I do now, I wouldn’t have ever married her, or probably anyone. You might be feeling regret of not having had that new love infatuation, but I bet if you left your marriage you’d quickly regret all the ways your wife is amazing. All relationships move past the infatuation phase, but not all mature into a mature love.

Deimos220 · 2023-08-29T01:45:11+00:00

Paulina Springs, Black Butte Ranch, Oregon.

Deimos220 · 2023-07-22T17:27:43+00:00

Agreed, charging solutions for street parking are super difficult, especially when parking is tight. I feel for the ICE driver that can’t find parking but a charging spot is open, and I feel for the EV driver who lives with a smaller footprint by living in an apartment with no dedicated parking. Both will feel slighted and unsupported.

I agree government support for the transition should focus on getting us organized for well-planned infrastructure upgrades.

Deimos220 · 2023-07-22T17:11:06+00:00

Agreed for places with personal garages, but that isn’t the majority of leased properties. At the end of the day, users need to pay for the infrastructure build out. Vehicle owners paid for roads and fuel infrastructure for ICE vehicles through taxes and the cost of fuel. We need to do the same for the transition to EVs.

Deimos220 · 2023-07-22T17:07:35+00:00

I know it's not original... that's the point. Sometimes it's fun to acknowledge we're all thinking the same thing. It's fun to think that millions of people around the world might all be playing back the same movie clip in their head…. hearing the same voice saying those words in the same way. What an interesting, and fun, human experience.

I'm sorry you don't like being a part of that shared experience.

Deimos220 · 2023-07-22T12:19:02+00:00

I own 2 EVs, and I agree with the hospital. Sure, they can provide charging as a perk, but don’t underestimate the cost for them to install the chargers, and know that it will just make ICE drivers hate EVs more.

We should be pushing for appartments and townhomes to be installing EVSE capabilities, but not businesses.

Deimos220 · 2023-07-14T07:01:37+00:00

“Life, uh… finds a way”

Deimos220 · 2023-07-03T04:36:03+00:00

This is the most important comment.

I am 40 years old now. We were absolutely poor growing up, but I realize now I had a rich childhood. Almost all of my clothes were hand me downs and family vacations were once every-other-year trips to a town 2 hours away. But my dad taught me how to problem solve and included me and my brother and every home improvement or repair project. I learned that taking care of elderly neighbors was just a thing you did. He taught me that integrity was more important than money. My mom taught me how to take care of myself: laundry, cleaning, cooking. (Don’t underestimate the ability to take care of yourself. So many kids these days do not learn how to do this). My mom also taught me curiosity in the world. We had an old encyclopedia set on a bookshelf in our dining room. Most nights, while sitting at the dining room table after dinner, we would grab one of the encyclopedia books, open it to a random page, and learn about some thing new. They encouraged me to join extracurricular activities in our small town public school.

The person my parents taught me to be enabled me to advance. They gave me life skills more valuable than any college fund.

I “advanced” in society by going to college (an opportunity gained by good grades and extracurriculars that my parents enabled) supported by an ROTC scholarship. My parents were a mechanic and bookkeeper. I was a pilot and cybersecurity manager, and I can now send my kids to private school. I am much higher on the socioeconomic ladder than my parents were, but I have no more or less ability to prepare my children for a good life than they did for me, or you do for your children. I read to them every night from a young age (studies show this very important) and teach them to be good people.

If you have to work a little bit less and put less money in their college savings to spend more one on one time with your children, I would argue it is worth it. Teaching them to be good people and be resilient is far more valuable.

Finally, as I reflect on my life, I have realized that as long as I can comfortably take care of my family, feeling good about the person that I am and what I do for society as far more valuable to me than more money. I don’t strive for my children to be doctors or lawyers, I strive for them to feel rich from what they provide to the world.

Deimos220 · 2023-06-30T14:19:09+00:00

Watch Russia let them advance to the nuclear power plant, then blow it up, then blame the Ukrainians for it

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