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Old Jun 6, 2019 | 12:17 pm
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The Ryanair one spawned news alerts on my phone. The initial news alerts included the phrases "mid-air emergency" and "the aircraft flew a loop prior to landing." I was horrified, wondering if the airframe and all of its passengers survived. But both phrases were later removed from the news articles - it was updated to say a minor medical emergency, likely concussion from the turbulence. The only thing that explain the "loop" bit was someone viewing the flight radar and making a horribly incorrect conclusion from a 2D map.

I then ended up in a 30-minute rabbit hole about barrel-rolling 707's, because Internet.
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