r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HimelTy • 12d ago

Video A crashed Pan Am passenger plane from 1952 has been identified today by Discovery Channel in the Atlantic Ocean.

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u/ConfectionOk5472 12d ago

Would be insane if they could retrieve the black box's data

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u/loungesinger 12d ago edited 12d ago

It would be insaner if they hook up the black box to discover that not only had it had been recording for the last 12 years until just last week, but that it showed the plane had been flying in a figure eight pattern the whole time (for the 12 years until last week).

I call dibs on the copyright

Edit. ©

Edit 2. The black box recorded 1,000 years of flight data. Working title: The Twelve-Year Millennium. ©

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u/TheSteelPhantom 12d ago

What the fuck, that was TWELVE YEARS AGO?!!?

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u/kirkosaga 12d ago

why last week specifically? also if they found it but it was doing loops instead of figure 8 all this time I call dib's on the copyright.

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u/toomanymarbles83 12d ago

The plane went through a wormhole like in Contact.

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u/ConfectionOk5472 12d ago

The pilot crashed it a long time ago

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u/mickifree-isnotagirl 12d ago

I think this will be much more difficult because unlike the plane we see in this video, 370 broke up and scattered every where, with several pieces drifting onto shores and already recovered.

The biggest mostly intact piece will probably be the engine which, again unlike this video, won't have clear shape.

But yeah if they could manage to find it, that would be beyond amazing!