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    PopChipsHudson Hongo
    6/25/15 10:27pm

    Took a Disney cruise last summer that stopped in Ketchikan. While choosing our excursion, I ruled out any that involved planes and helicopters. But, they were very popular with other folks on the boat.

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      Burndy Burndy BurnPopChips
      6/25/15 10:35pm

      Would you cruise again? I think the world breaks out into types: those who would cruise (in the face of all the aboard disasters that make it into the news cycle on a regular basis- sickness, power failures, missing at sea, etc. and now attendant aircraft disaster!), and those that love life too much to put themselves, or their families, through the torment.

      Sorry, you were saying...

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      bobosagetPopChips
      6/25/15 10:38pm

      I have a personal rule against boarding any aircraft that seats less than 50 people and/or is piloted by John Travolta.

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    KateUptonsFatCampHudson Hongo
    6/25/15 10:16pm

    That’s better than being on a cruise, I guess.

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      dothedewKateUptonsFatCamp
      6/25/15 10:25pm

      Yeah, I’m thinking they carefully weighed the pros and cons of staying on that ship and decided to make a run for it.

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      Jwend392dothedew
      6/25/15 10:39pm

      They did not want to stay aboard the USS Poopcruiser?

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    UnderYetOverHudson Hongo
    6/25/15 10:49pm

    Here are some images from the plane tour’s website, which is Promech Air.

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      financialpantherUnderYetOver
      6/25/15 11:20pm

      Yep, that’s basically where I live. The flight from here to Vancouver is just the coastal mountains as far as the eye can see. A fucking terrifying place for a crash. This is a photo my fiancé took a few weeks ago during a flight:

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      123AwesomeUnderYetOver
      6/26/15 8:22am

      Thanks. I live down in Central America and fly as a passenger on small planes (Cessnas, usually) at least 6 times per year. Every once in a while we fly over mountains and rain forest and I think “man, it would suck to crash here” but after seeing these pictures I’d take the jungle any day over this terrain. Then again, survival of any kind, anywhere, seems unlikely when a small plane crashes.

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    kylexoHudson Hongo
    6/25/15 10:36pm

    Oh god, one of my coworkers and his brand new wife are honeymooning and are on this ship. I very much hope they didn't choose this excursion.

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      gimmesummerkylexo
      6/25/15 11:03pm

      “brand new”? Did she come with a warranty?

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    davidj211Hudson Hongo
    6/25/15 10:34pm

    According some other articles I’ve read, this happened near Ketchikan, which is a popular cruise ship stop. The “flightseeing” tours there take people out over Misty Fjords National Monument, which is a truly spectacularly beautiful area about the size of the state of Connecticut. I went on one of those tours during my summer vacation last year, though I was on a DC-2 Beaver rather than its successor, the DC-3 Otter that crashed today.

    Honestly, I’m not surprised that this happened. I know that the bush pilots out there are very talented and extremely familiar with the terrain, but they push those little planes to their limits on these tours when they’re buzzing through the canyons and landing/taking off from lakes surrounded by thousand-foot cliffs. They’re routinely doing stuff that any responsible flight instructor would strongly discourage, and they’re doing it every day. It was bound to bite someone in the ass someday.

    I hope (likely unrealistically, though) that at least some of the passengers survived.

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      JUGSHudson Hongo
      6/25/15 10:49pm

      This is a very strange looking plane.

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        Jwend392Hudson Hongo
        6/25/15 10:38pm

        Since when did cruise ship companies start painting their ships to look like navy vessels?

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          bobosagetJwend392
          6/25/15 10:40pm

          9/11

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          AtomBJwend392
          6/25/15 11:11pm

          Here’s the Queen Mary painted grey as a troop carrier in WWII.

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        pointless-internet-flipout-404Hudson Hongo
        6/25/15 11:50pm

        “Hot case, Drebin. Looks like a pilot flew a bunch of cruise ship passengers into Alaska.”

        “Impressive. Most wouldn’t get off the water.”

        “I think he flew a plane, Frank.”

        “Boat, plane, the best pilot isn’t going to land much on a cliff.”

        “What are you thinking? Smell fishy?”

        “Could be the ol’ bait and switch. Find that cruise ship. If this wasn’t an accident, I have a hunch there’s a captain sailing a boatful of airline passengers for international waters right now.”

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          Grasshopper ApologistHudson Hongo
          6/25/15 10:17pm

          Ironically, today a boat sank that was carrying 8 plane passengers.

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