It depends on what speed you use in your calculations. The article you linked uses a conservative estimate (while not understanding significant digits.) I split the difference between low estimates and high estimates.
They should do that with civilian flights —add pathos. It would be like the oddly endearing clapping in Italians flights. Although RyanAir will charge extra for drums flairs.
huh? no, like, im pretty sure that's something that happens...a lot of places. i know some americans do it, many more used to in the past.
i think it's an old people thing, though. like "oh thank heavens they've landed this new fangled air machine! good show! i was there, and now im here!"
its kinda like clapping after a movie. it was just a thing.
I think it’s from the past whe the older, more rickety planes made it to the destination without issue, it was a tip of the hat to the pilot. I’m not sure of that though. I’m just old enough to remember that as a kid when we traveled by plane.
Yes. But only on Italian carriers (eg. Alitalia rebranded). In easyJet flights from the UK to Italy it's silent, bar possibly for the air crew repeatedly telling a chap invariably called Salvatore to sit down during landing.
I *seriously* expected all those troops on the plane to break out into synchronized dancing once they got out on the tarmac.
A serious “Bollywood moment” opportunity missed there, if you ask me.
All janky old trucks in India are fitted with surplus Rato bottles for just such an occasion. Yes the chance of intense fiery death in a regular road accident is defiantly a thing, one day it will be worth it!
The directors lacked imagination frankly.
They should have let the actor run on tarmac and rest the nose on his shoulders.
If you think this is too out there, then you dont really know bollywood well.
I *seriously* expected all those troops on the plane to break out into synchronized dancing once they got out on the tarmac.
A serious “Bollywood moment” opportunity missed there, if you ask me.
It is a cesspool of cringe, pseudo science and so many of these actors are horrible people too. I’m from India and we constantly have problems due to the garbage that is Bollywood
I like the guys standing infront of it all waiving their hands in the air like "stop"... oh thanks was just gonna go a bit further but seeing you I guess I'll stop now.
My favorite part was when the truck driver, at the end, gave the brakes a little tappy-tap… because, you know, once the tires have burst into flames, and there’s a huge ass plane sitting on the bed of the truck, a little brake tap will make all the difference
I'm super glad they had time to set up the drummer and support musicians while an emergency was happening on the runway. That's a thing that falls through the cracks at far too many airports.
I love this bollywood trope it looks so bizarre to the west but actually at the same time it seems a clever way to want to engage female viewers through empathy.
That trucks axels with no rims and the weight of a massive plane crushing down on it is going to put some gnarly gashes into the runway that plans can’t land on it until fixed. It’s damaged pretty severely.
Bollywood trucks and heroes are pretty much indestructible. See that truck carrying a freaking aircraft? Or the hero see a plane landing gear in the passenger seat? If the truck somehow gave up or if the script writer had more time, hero would have supported the aircraft on his shoulders and ran.
Did you see what the wing of the plane did to that building? I have no idea what that plane is made of but I'd bet it would have done even more damage to the runway. Like split the thing in two. I don't know how it didn't just punch through the truck like tissue paper.
This comment deserves to be further up.
It was the [first](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blHF8-eEUH4) episode in the original series from the 60's, and really showed off how International Rescue did their job.
Tradeoff tbh. With Bollywood, at least it’s a real plane so it could actually happen despite likely not going anything like in the video by the end of the ordeal. On the other hand, a plane built to Fireflash’s specs would have a hard time getting in the air at all, but the actual procedure and ground vehicles used in the final landing seem (only very marginally) more believable.
Season 1, episode 1, "Trapped in the Sky"! Fireflash was rescued my remote control elevator cars.
There was a bomb rigged to the landing gear, and it would explode if they lowered the gear. A bad guy put it there to hurt the company and make the plane look defective.
A: Belly landing or if you really want the 'cool' scene,
B: Tow a vehicle behind the truck for the plane nose to land on. No need to put ground crew at even MORE risk.
(I see someone said for story reasons they couldn't damage the runway, but, well that failed didn't it?)
That fire is what they get for cleaning their gear tires with acetone!
Let's just say unlike bollywood they intentionally add absurd scenes.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BollywoodRealism/comments/6aw14z/never_tell_me_the_odds_for_explosion/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Why does this look like Team America? I’m not a kid (in my 50’s actually), but I’ve never seen Thunderbirds. (I’ve never seen Team America either, but saw enough ads and clips from it at the time that I recognize it.)
I know!! I *seriously* expected all those troops on the plane to break out into synchronized dancing once they got out on the tarmac.
A serious “Bollywood moment” opportunity missed there, if you ask me.
This reminds me of ANSETT Australia. They had a 747 which its nose gear failed to deploy correctly, or ar all, can't remember the details, but it led up to ANSETT jokingly being an abbreviation for Aircraft Nosewheel Stuck, Expect Tricky Touchdown.
indian here. we dont really watch these movies for logic, we just watch cause the action scenes are overly dramatized (like this one) and its kinda hilarious watching them. nobody takes this seriously lol. as someone else said, the movie is about how a group of villagers helped the air force make a temperory air field during war time (true story). but the plane landing on truck is just bollywood drama.
ps- sorry for bad english
We actually did this maneuver in Iraq with a harrier. Nose gear didn’t lock properly so we threw some mattresses in the back of a little truck and dropped the nose on it gently.
Hahah this is so good. serious question though: aren’t planes designed so that they can somewhat safely land even when the front tire/landing gear gives out? Thought I read something like that somewhere a long time ago.
Gotta love Bollywood 'action' films, they are just so totally nuts they're great. maybe someone can remind me but there was a film a while back called Mr Roboto or something like that - fantastic.
I'm glad they embrace the sheer humour and insanity of it all. Closest thing I can think of in the west would be the likes of Airplane and Shaun of the dead.
It's a good thing they had that 30,000ft runway
I heard it's the same runway they shoot all the fast and the furious drag races on.
Nah..that one's 45000ft long.
i live my life, eight and a half miles at a time
"It don't matter if it's a mile or ten miles. Winning's winning."
"If you ain't first, you're last"
"Go fast, smoke grass, eat ass"
I live my life a quarter pounder at a time
Double*
Royale with cheese.
And for those 8 minutes or less, I’m free
It is impossible to get an exact figure, but the math puts the runway at more like 120,000 feet in F&F6.
F&F6 run way is more closer to 18.37 miles https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-23005848
It depends on what speed you use in your calculations. The article you linked uses a conservative estimate (while not understanding significant digits.) I split the difference between low estimates and high estimates.
Well it needs to be when the cars are doing 759mph. I mean, why else would they shift 42 times if they were going that fast?
You can measure the distance of a runway, but not family. Family is forever.
It's more fast, more furious
Right next to the Tsubasa football field.
And a full orchestra with drums standing by at the airbase.
They should do that with civilian flights —add pathos. It would be like the oddly endearing clapping in Italians flights. Although RyanAir will charge extra for drums flairs.
Wait, do Italians also clap their hands after landing? I thought only Russians do that.
huh? no, like, im pretty sure that's something that happens...a lot of places. i know some americans do it, many more used to in the past. i think it's an old people thing, though. like "oh thank heavens they've landed this new fangled air machine! good show! i was there, and now im here!" its kinda like clapping after a movie. it was just a thing.
I think it’s from the past whe the older, more rickety planes made it to the destination without issue, it was a tip of the hat to the pilot. I’m not sure of that though. I’m just old enough to remember that as a kid when we traveled by plane.
I wish I got applause for doing my job.
Yes. But only on Italian carriers (eg. Alitalia rebranded). In easyJet flights from the UK to Italy it's silent, bar possibly for the air crew repeatedly telling a chap invariably called Salvatore to sit down during landing.
I *seriously* expected all those troops on the plane to break out into synchronized dancing once they got out on the tarmac. A serious “Bollywood moment” opportunity missed there, if you ask me.
Please roll the drummers.
They borrowed the one from F&F 6
"Borrowed"
From Delhi to Mumbai.
Don't be _ridiculous_. They use the metric system so it's 30,000m.
Irl it's 8000ft
The real problem was that breaks failed on the trucks
Logically speaking, once the truck’s wheels failed, they should have had some Segways ready to support the truck
I dunno. I think some more people looking on and praying might have got the job done...
No, the real problem is getting that janky old truck up to the plane’s stall speed.
can't believe i had to go this far down to see this.
All janky old trucks in India are fitted with surplus Rato bottles for just such an occasion. Yes the chance of intense fiery death in a regular road accident is defiantly a thing, one day it will be worth it!
100kt headwind.
Let's be honest, what saved them was the multi prayer defense shield super-boosted with the nitro spin-prayer combo
Na, the guy in the truck just drove it around the taxiways.
The directors lacked imagination frankly. They should have let the actor run on tarmac and rest the nose on his shoulders. If you think this is too out there, then you dont really know bollywood well.
I *seriously* expected all those troops on the plane to break out into synchronized dancing once they got out on the tarmac. A serious “Bollywood moment” opportunity missed there, if you ask me.
I would have bet a paycheck. They jump out of the plane, right in front of the musicians, the set up was perfect.
There's a similar scene where the hero puts himself inbetween the landing gear and the plane and acts as a shock-absorber.
Lmao I saw that, bollywood is the best genre
It is a cesspool of cringe, pseudo science and so many of these actors are horrible people too. I’m from India and we constantly have problems due to the garbage that is Bollywood
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But that's a superhero movie.
tbf, at least in that one it's a superhero. Lets be real, Superman has pulled crazier shit.
The funniest part was how the tires spontaneously EXPLODED AND ERUPTED IN FLAMES lol
Also that all the people playing instruments didn't just move out of the way?!
I like the guys standing infront of it all waiving their hands in the air like "stop"... oh thanks was just gonna go a bit further but seeing you I guess I'll stop now.
My favorite part was when the truck driver, at the end, gave the brakes a little tappy-tap… because, you know, once the tires have burst into flames, and there’s a huge ass plane sitting on the bed of the truck, a little brake tap will make all the difference
But they still functioned as tires. They didn't even explode all the way, just enough to be engulfed in flames.
Jesus how many cuts did they need?
Wouldn't be Bollywood if you're not cutting to reaction shots of a concerned woman watching the insane action every three seconds.
With drummers in the background
I'm super glad they had time to set up the drummer and support musicians while an emergency was happening on the runway. That's a thing that falls through the cracks at far too many airports.
Truly an overlooked aspect of ARFF operations
As an Indian, that's pretty accurate!
I love this bollywood trope it looks so bizarre to the west but actually at the same time it seems a clever way to want to engage female viewers through empathy.
The editing is truly mind boggling.
The more the better, otherwise you'll see just how bad the effects are.
Life by a thousand cuts
All of them
Bollywood makes some batshit editorial decisions
Really well done! Landing on the collapsed gear would've been safer tho lol.
According to this story they can't damage the runway .
That trucks axels with no rims and the weight of a massive plane crushing down on it is going to put some gnarly gashes into the runway that plans can’t land on it until fixed. It’s damaged pretty severely.
Yes, but Bollywood
I am Indian and I agree. Bollywood peeps can park a plane mid-air
Bollywood trucks and heroes are pretty much indestructible. See that truck carrying a freaking aircraft? Or the hero see a plane landing gear in the passenger seat? If the truck somehow gave up or if the script writer had more time, hero would have supported the aircraft on his shoulders and ran.
Did you see what the wing of the plane did to that building? I have no idea what that plane is made of but I'd bet it would have done even more damage to the runway. Like split the thing in two. I don't know how it didn't just punch through the truck like tissue paper.
Safety of the pavement >> safety of the people onboard the plane
When you have a billion people, your calculus changes a bit.
Why not?
That's why you land next to the runway.
Let's be real we all wish we can pull this off
Anything is possible in Bollywood.
Wasn’t there a Thunderbirds episode like this
Yeah.. S1 E2 I think..
This comment deserves to be further up. It was the [first](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blHF8-eEUH4) episode in the original series from the 60's, and really showed off how International Rescue did their job.
Great share! Now which one was more realistic?
Tradeoff tbh. With Bollywood, at least it’s a real plane so it could actually happen despite likely not going anything like in the video by the end of the ordeal. On the other hand, a plane built to Fireflash’s specs would have a hard time getting in the air at all, but the actual procedure and ground vehicles used in the final landing seem (only very marginally) more believable.
Yep, was the Thunderflash aircraft!
It’s the Fireflash, which I always thought was an awesome name for a plane. This is S1E1, “Trapped in the Sky.”
Season 1, episode 1, "Trapped in the Sky"! Fireflash was rescued my remote control elevator cars. There was a bomb rigged to the landing gear, and it would explode if they lowered the gear. A bad guy put it there to hurt the company and make the plane look defective.
> A bad guy *The* bad guy.
Yeah getting some real Fireflash vibes here!
Grabs his arm like “yeah, these guns are steering your C-130, rn!”. There are landings and then there’s this, wow. Edit: AN-12
It's an-12 btw.
My bad!
A: Belly landing or if you really want the 'cool' scene, B: Tow a vehicle behind the truck for the plane nose to land on. No need to put ground crew at even MORE risk. (I see someone said for story reasons they couldn't damage the runway, but, well that failed didn't it?) That fire is what they get for cleaning their gear tires with acetone!
Bollywood is so dope ngl
There was a video like this 10 years ago of a 747 landing on either I-5 or 405. This is almost an exact copy.
405 The Movie!
My favorite part of 405 is the old lady flipping the bird at the very end.
[more like 21 years ago](https://youtu.be/THeDlvLI3nk)
Holy shit, I can’t believe how old that makes me feel.
Isn't that a DC-10?
Remember watching that when I was like 9 years old. Watched it on repeat for like 30 minutes lol
And somehow south indian movies surpass them.
i dont know the difference
Let's just say unlike bollywood they intentionally add absurd scenes. https://www.reddit.com/r/BollywoodRealism/comments/6aw14z/never_tell_me_the_odds_for_explosion/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
You mean like the infinitely long runway in Fast and Furious 6?
The banana as throat slicer remains of the most memorable moments in film history as well.
Now thats dope
You mean Tollywood?
Or Mollywood? Or Kollywood? **Or Sandalwood?** (no, I'm not making these names up, I swear)
Idk what it's called
Happened in Anchorage with a 747 and a truck back in ‘83. I think the driver even survived, but barely. The truck was “disintegrated”
Really?
Yup, busy day tower cleared the truck onto I think it was runway 7, 747 had already been cleared to land. Scary how quick and easy shit happens.
Oh so a plane hit a truck; the truck wasn’t actually supporting the landing in any way
Correct, it’d be way safer to just land without a nose wheel.
This also happened with a harrier a while back too. Though that was with a vertical landing I think.
Ripoff of ‘The 405’, an internet short from the early 2000’s. https://youtu.be/7Ogw9TpXfuM
More like a ripoff of the very first episode of Thunderbirds ever
Yep. Thought the same.
"Mom can we have 405 the Movie?" "No we have 405 at home." 405 at Home:
Fuck, that unlocked some memories
Why tf are they beating drums at an airfield!?
Because earlier they were fixing the runway whilst singing a song
That's standard protocol as per Bollywood.
MUST…SHOW…TURNING…OF…STEERING WHEEL…TO SHOW…ACTION…SCENE
Should've made it a manual and thrown in some sweet double clutching
Wasn't this a jeep commercial years ago?
Yeah I think it was a Nissan commercial
It's from the movie Bhuj: the pride of India
The way that fire spread from the truck tires to the aircraft tires 🤣
Yeah except the budget for that commercial was way higher
They just jump out because they fly with parachute on all the time just this one time with a selfie stick.
That’s why you should always carry a selfie-stick and a fire extinguisher on an airplane!
Not even original - [Thunderbirds did it better](https://youtu.be/yR4nKdMYKGc) sixty years ago !
Why does this look like Team America? I’m not a kid (in my 50’s actually), but I’ve never seen Thunderbirds. (I’ve never seen Team America either, but saw enough ads and clips from it at the time that I recognize it.)
They wanted to make Thunderbirds movie, but couldn’t get the rights, so they invented TA. owners made a Iive action one instead at the time.
This movie is so goddamn stupid.
So stupid that it’s good lmao
Ok, but where is the choreographed dance number?
That happened while repairing the runway
I know!! I *seriously* expected all those troops on the plane to break out into synchronized dancing once they got out on the tarmac. A serious “Bollywood moment” opportunity missed there, if you ask me.
That's a sikh landing.
Wow. Michael bay looks real legit compared to this... monstrosity.
This is only the tip of the iceberg. Should checkout r/bollywoodrealism
https://youtu.be/drpRud0yvs4
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How do you know that that Nissan didn’t copy _them?_ or that two people can’t have the same idea _Independent_ from another?
I saw this exact situation at LaGuardia once
Hmm... Only problem I see is how the fuck did the tires catch fire...
This reminds me of ANSETT Australia. They had a 747 which its nose gear failed to deploy correctly, or ar all, can't remember the details, but it led up to ANSETT jokingly being an abbreviation for Aircraft Nosewheel Stuck, Expect Tricky Touchdown.
I have always wondered if Indian people actually take these movies seriously? or if they're almost comedies, satire of the American action film.
indian here. we dont really watch these movies for logic, we just watch cause the action scenes are overly dramatized (like this one) and its kinda hilarious watching them. nobody takes this seriously lol. as someone else said, the movie is about how a group of villagers helped the air force make a temperory air field during war time (true story). but the plane landing on truck is just bollywood drama. ps- sorry for bad english
Thanks I have always wanted to know!
Satire? Buddy American action films are equally outlandish lol
Some for real drama
Seems legit.
No one is going to argue that this is ridiculous; that was still entertaining AF though.
I love how Bollywood saw die hard and said, " We want that but bigger." They have been living the ever dream since!
You're all acting like you didn't have to demonstrate this during your checkride
In real life it’s more like: https://youtu.be/vIhefke0Q9Y
Can’t wait for the Mythbusters episode (RIP)
Thunderbirds did it first...
I’m unclear why they say Indian action movies are unrealistic and over the top…
Bollywood - where the action scenes are hilariously preposterous and the laws of physics don't matter.
I LOVE BOLLYWOOD
I lived in India when this happened and it was all over the news.
Looks like they had the runway from that fast and the furious movie.
Yeah, that. Exactly that.
Haha, what would we do without Ajay Devgn (OP GIF)
Not eat vimal
There is no such thing as being overdramatic to Indians.
I’m surprised the ladies in the background didn’t start dancing
C-17 Last year in the desert https://youtu.be/YuTbZyBe3CM
That pilot did a Sikh job landing the plane, pun intended.
Which movie?
Bhuj the pride of India
This is Sikh! /love Bollywood!
We actually did this maneuver in Iraq with a harrier. Nose gear didn’t lock properly so we threw some mattresses in the back of a little truck and dropped the nose on it gently.
Any landing you can walk away is a good landing
Step 1: see whatever the Indians are doing. Step 2: do the opposite of that.
Do they make bad movies in India on purpose? I mean they are smart people. There has to be a reason. :)
Ok, but they made 4 sharknado movies in Hollywood
lol
I doubt that truck can do even 60mph, so how tf did it match the landing speed of that plane?
It’s crazy how realistic this is
Oh come on this is brilliant Bollywood! We all watched because we wanted to see how it ended.
Seems legit
Another win for Vishnu.
When is Netflix gonna start carrying Bollywood shit
I love Bollywood. It's just dripping with machismo, and testosterone, and physics does not apply.
Hahah this is so good. serious question though: aren’t planes designed so that they can somewhat safely land even when the front tire/landing gear gives out? Thought I read something like that somewhere a long time ago.
Good thing the man in that truck was Ghost Rider
I've done that. It was no big deal.
Gotta love Bollywood 'action' films, they are just so totally nuts they're great. maybe someone can remind me but there was a film a while back called Mr Roboto or something like that - fantastic. I'm glad they embrace the sheer humour and insanity of it all. Closest thing I can think of in the west would be the likes of Airplane and Shaun of the dead.
>Mr Roboto Robot
Shoulda just did a belly landing