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Qatar Airways Cargo Boeing 777 Makes Terrifying Low Flyby... Experts Say it Was 'Inches From Disaster' (www.paddleyourownkanoo.com)
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A Boeing 777 widebody jet, which is due to be delivered to Qatar Airways Cargo in the coming days, performed a terrifying low flyby at the Horseshoe Bay Resort Airport in Texas on Wednesday, with aviation experts saying that the plane flew so low that it was just “inches from disaster.”

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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 days ago

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Turning that low is nuts

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 days ago

Sounds like the pilots just wanted to show off

[–] Steve@startrek.website 2 points 4 days ago

Sick