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This industry is chock full of dryly technical jargon for describing absolute horrors. My go-to is CFIT, or “controlled flight into terrain.” Yikes.

• sokoloff 6y ago
  RUD-Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly - “It blew up” (more aerospace than straight aviation)
  • hinkley 6y ago
    Controlled Flight Into Terrain: pilot thought he knew how to miss the ground. Pilot was wrong. Engine-rich exhaust: shit’s on fire, yo.