Pilot Dies In Yet Another Gender Reveal Disaster
To quote a Know Your Meme piece from 2021, "Yet another gender reveal party has ended in tragedy."
This time, a viral video shows a couple watching a plane spreading pink dust into the air, letting them know their unborn child will be a girl, before its left wing suddenly breaks off, causing it to crash and kill the pilot. The footage was shared to Twitter by @aviationbrk last week as it's since spread online.
The pilot was Luis รngel, 32, who was taken to the hospital with serious injuries before dying shortly after. The couple, apparently unaware that the plane had crashed after making the reveal, are filmed hugging before the video cuts off.
The umpteenth fatality caused or associated with a gender reveal party caused numerous social media users to once again beg humanity to stop holding the events.
The tragedy adds to the remarkably high body count associated with gender reveal parties over the last several years. In 2019, a grandmother died after being hit by shrapnel flying off a gender reveal explosive. In 2020, a couple set off an explosive at a gender reveal party and sparked a wildfire, costing them a fine of $8 million. In early 2021, a man died while working on a homemade explosive for the upcoming gender reveal party of his child.
Last week's disaster isn't even the first plane crash death associated with a gender reveal party. In 2021, two men died after the plane they were flying carrying a gender reveal banner crashed into the sea.
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Boykisser
Proof assigning gender is bad.
Nukegirl
If you want to condemn gender assignment in general, then this incident isn't good ammunition for that cause.
The incident can only really be used to argue that throwing massive, extravagant parties where you do things that will cause incalculable damage to people, property or nature is bad โ and even then, judging by PhasmaFelis' comment chain, the incident appears to have been the result of terrible safety practices on the pilot's part, not the usual kind of stupidity that gets people killed during gender reveal parties.
Had that not gone wrong, the most that could be said is that the party was wasteful, especially when considering the possibility that the child might come to resent the gender she was assigned at birth at some point in her life.
LilaBirby
can this stop, i wanna see explodisons, not dumb colors
El Lugubre
As much as I think gender reveals are stupid, this one death was not to blame on it.
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Here's a novel idea: Gender Conceal party
A Concerned Rifleman
I know it was an accident due to structural failure of the plane, but hot damn I wanna hear the FAA's report on this.
Lord DIO
Gender reveals are like a Pirate's curse now.
PhasmaFelis
We're all agreed that extravagant gender reveal parties are dumb. Butโฆ
This guy was a professional pilot. Deploying colored smoke was probably a day-to-day thing for him. This flight would have put less stress on the plane than a typical skywriting job.
What I'm saying is, his death wasn't caused by a gender reveal party; it was caused by construction and/or maintenance problems in his plane. If he hadn't done the party, he probably would have died on his next job, whatever it was.
TheHolyEmpress
Having a plane do a very low flyby almost directly above a crowd of people is irresponsible enough. Accepting the job in the first place says a lot about the poor safety standards of the company or business he worked for.
PhasmaFelis
Oh, sure. Somebody fucked up real bad for this to happen.
Brad
Pilot here. There was an Airworthiness Directive for a defective wing spar on his plane. He should have been aware of it and taken his plane in for service. That's why it was very easy for the wing to snap off.
Otherwise you're right, this type of aircraft is used for cropdusting, so this type of maneuver is very common for the aircraft. Go by some farmland and you can see them pulling some crazy stunts when dusting the food you eat with cancer chemicals. Jealous that it's not my cool job.
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