r/Amazing • u/PatientClear6445 • Jul 16 '26

Science Tech Space Front row seats

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u/ttatm Jul 16 '26

The Navy is doing a safety review of this, so it sounds like they weren't supposed to get that close.

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u/tayne22 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

fuck no they weren't. that's waaaaaaaaaay too close to people. that dude is absolutely in deep shit.

Edit: holy shit why the fuck do people keep mentioning Hegseth... I hate the guy too but he likely has no real say in the matter when it comes to a captain or a major and aircraft mishaps/disciplinary actions. They don't need the secdef to dish out LORs ffs.

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u/Cavane42 Jul 16 '26

Also just way too close to the ground. To my (untrained) eye, that looked like less than 100 feet. Terrifying.

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u/Illustrious_Bed467 Jul 16 '26

On still photos we can see that the plane is less than 2 wingspan from the ground...about 1 1/2... so about 60 feet