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Passenger Diego Murillo, who had been on his way to Ontario, California, said the gap was "as wide as a refrigerator" and described hearing a "really loud bang"
by w3ll_w3ll_w3ll 3y ago
Passenger Diego Murillo, who had been on his way to Ontario, California, said the gap was "as wide as a refrigerator" and described hearing a "really loud bang" as the oxygen masks dropped from above.
He told KPTV: "They said there was a kid in that row whose shirt was sucked off him and out of the plane and his mother was holding onto him to make sure he didn't go with it."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67899564 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67899564
- MOARDONGZPLZ 3y agoFor any other Americans like myself trying to conceptualize exactly how wide this hole was, imagine about 1/150th of a football field.
- williamcotton 3y agoCan you put that in units of elephant so I can truly grasp the magnitude? :D
- xattt 3y agoAfrican or Indian?
- Kye 3y agoAn unladen, spherical, metric elephant, of course.
- williamcotton 3y agoI actually needed some help putting a smile on my face this morning, so thank you for this delightful little banter!
- davrosthedalek 3y agoSorry, only have chickens: https://imgur.com/sMUgkTM https://imgur.com/sMUgkTM
- louthy 3y agoOr, 3 bald eagles
- RealStickman_ 3y agoI just realized Americans would use a different size of football field than the rest of the world.
- throw0101d 3y agoFootball field versus football pitch. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_pitch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_pitch
- yurishimo 3y agoIn practice, they're very similarly sized. 90m vs 91.5m in length (on average). Widths are different but that's usually not relevant when describing the size of things as "half of a football field".
- chrisshroba 3y agoOur American football fields are a standard size ;)
- albert_e 3y agoThey play a different sport altogether and call it football :)
- cthalupa 3y agoFootball/Soccer, American/Gridiron Football, and Rugby all descend from the same class of sport that was just called football back in the middle ages (you played it on foot instead of on horse). Etymologically, neither sport called football really has any more claim to it than the other.
- acjohnson55 3y agoYep, but there are actually many footballs. Soccer, American, rugby union, rugby league, Aussie rules, Canadian, Gaelic, etc.
- Bud 3y ago[dead]
- sschueller 3y agoThe refrigerator comparison also doesn't help much because American fridges are much larger then European ones.
- pi-e-sigma 3y agoNot relative to the average American :)
- formerly_proven 3y agoEuropeans aren't that far behind in fatness and obesity.
- brnt 3y agoBritons aren't Europeans anymore!
- sidlls 3y agoI've been to a few countries outside of Europe and the US. Obesity and lesser but unhealthy fatness may not be as widespread yet there, but they're not that far behind. Also, what some cultures consider "not fat" isn't actually "not fat." Plenty consider "chubby" to be perfectly normal (and even attractive).
- pc86 3y agoOf course they are, it's part of the European continent. This is like saying citizens of Lichtenstein or Switzerland or Norway aren't Europeans.
- pi-e-sigma 3y agoRussia is also technically in Europe but a lot of Westerners don't consider Russians Europeans. So I see no reason why continental Europeans could't consider the British as non-Europeans. In fact, there are plenty of Western Europeans that don't even consider Eastern Europe as 'real' Europe.
- addicted 3y agoWell played!
- sandworm101 3y agoFootball field? It was the size of a smallish door. Better analogies would be commonplace things like bathtubs or car doors, not dramaticlly oversized objects like fields or office towers. It was about exactly the size of the emergency exit doors we all see when lucky enough to be seated in an exit row.
- richbell 3y agoIt's a joke.
- voisin 3y agoThis is the joke. Americans always use football fields for comparison, even when totally inappropriate.
- cthalupa 3y agoAs an American, I have never once in my life used a football field as a size comparison, nor have I heard it used as a size comparison for anything that wasn't roughly football field sized. It might be used more commonly in some places, but I was baffled by the joke as well.
- voisin 3y agoI actually think the stereotype comes not from normal Americans but rather from American journalism. It is in the news and magazines all the time. I am sure Google nGram could support this but I am heading out the door and can’t look it up until later.
- drtgh 3y agoPhoto https://imgur.com/a/G6rtsys https://imgur.com/a/G6rtsys Observable: the entire lateral structure of the aircraft has disappeared next to the seat. ( From related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38887840 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38887840 )
- highwaylights 3y agoSo.. anyone still feel like travelling on a 737 Max with their family? What a mess.