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A Turkish Airlines pilot died after collapsing mid-flight, forcing the Turkish national carrier to make an emergency landing in New York, the airline said Wednesday. The incident occurred after the plane took off from Seattle on Tuesday evening, airline spokesman Yahya Ustun wrote on social media.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I think dying at work would really suck. Insult to injury.

[–] kautau 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)

At least his death was noticed right away unlike the Wells Fargo employee that died in her cubicle and wasn’t discovered for 4 days

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/officials-probe-death-wells-fargo-employee-found-dead-cubicle-4-days-l-rcna168756

[–] forgotaboutlaye 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also I'd rather die at work, soaring above the clouds, trying to connect people safely to another destination, than in a cubicle at Wells Fargo.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Right on. It's better to die peacefully among the clouds than it is to die afraid and screaming, like your passengers.

(Recycling an old joke, not trying to be snarky or mean, btw)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Fucking hell. That's depressing.

[–] Agent641 1 points 1 month ago

Did she get paid for those 4 days or nah?

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

Arguably, better than dying on your own time.

[–] misterdoctor 9 points 1 month ago

Imagine dying, being rezzed and then still having to finish up your shift ugh

[–] aeronmelon 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It happens with alarming regularity to office workers in Japan.

[–] NickwithaC 1 points 1 month ago

They should try leaving at 5pm then.

[–] AA5B 11 points 1 month ago

Would you rather your family be the ones to discover your death?

Once in a while I’ve thought about that …. Now that I’m divorced, if something happened to me, my teen would be the one to discover it. I would never want to inflict that on him: If I can’t become immortal, I’d rather go at work where at least it’s not my family

[–] aeronmelon 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

“I’m always scared of flying. And my friend says, ‘Don’t worry, you’re not going anywhere until it’s your time.’ And I say, ‘But what if it’s the pilot’s time?’”

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

That's one reason to mandate 2 pilots.

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

That's very similar to a line from Hook

[–] Tyfud 2 points 1 month ago

I'm fairly certain it's a paraphrasing from a well known comedian, someone like Norm or Danger field level.

[–] wjrii 20 points 1 month ago

Eric Adams must have wanted a domestic flight. Credit to the pilot, he was committed to making it work.

[–] Cosmonauticus 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This is the 3rd time in a few days I'm hearing about a pilot passing out/dieing in the middle of a flight. This just the law of averages or is something going on with pilots?

[–] aeronmelon 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They all had the fish for dinner!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Ah yes, I had the lasagna.

[–] jacksilver 12 points 1 month ago

Pilots sacrificing their brethren to remind the world that we have redundancies for a reason. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/one-pilot-in-cockpit-staffing-shortage-faa-part-121/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

There are a lot of flights every day, and anything about air travel gets a front-page spot these days.

[–] Wooki 2 points 1 month ago

VAS aviation have the atc recording

https://youtu.be/dgAHq65R90A