Search resumes for six killed aboard plane, the unnamed pilot and a Spanish family with children age 11, five and four
The pilot of a sightseeing helicopter that crashed into New York’s Hudson River on Thursday killing all six people aboard reportedly sent a radio message moments earlier saying he was low on fuel and was heading back to the helipad, its operators said on Friday.
Michael Roth, the chief executive of New York Helicopter Tours, described how the pilot never made it back to the downtown Manhattan heliport it took off from about 16 minutes previously on its sixth flight of the day, the Telegraph reported.
“He called in that he was landing and that he needed fuel, and it should have taken him about three minutes to arrive, but 20 minutes later, he didn’t arrive,” Roth told the UK outlet.
I don’t know what Information you’re seeing, my comment is far from the most upvoted
Time marches on and people can continue upvoting after I left my comment. At the time I commented it had the same number of upvotes as the next highest comment (5) and was at the top when comments were sorted by top. Blahaj doesn’t federate downvotes, so if any were on either comment I didn’t see it.
All of which is sort of beside the point, even if joke comments like that aren’t the top comment it makes for an unpleasant and callous comment section. It’s okay to just have news that’s sad and not make it amateur standup comedy hour.
And it’s okay to bring levity in a dark moment!
Do I need to go dig up some scientific paper about humor as a method to address trauma?
What authorizes you to be the sole decision on what speech is appropriate on a public forum?
If you want to slap a clown nose on your face and honk it in the comment section of a story about 6 people (3 of which were children) dying terribly I’m not going to and haven’t tried to stop you, I just think it’s in bad taste and gives the place a reddit stink when it doesn’t have to. This doesn’t have to be reddit 2.0. We can do better.