I showed my parents the Saudia 163 incident
to clarify this doesn’t exactly have to do with ACI as I didn’t show him the mayday episode, but last night with YouTube attached to our TV I decided to show my parents a YouTube video which talked about the Saudia 163 tragedy. My parents (particularly my dad who also takes similar interest) had not heard of the accident so I figured I’d show it to them. He was in absolute disbelief when he heard about the actions of the flight crew and their pure incompetence. And just to mention, he actually knew someone who died on avianca flight 52 from NYC and hearing about this accident immediately reminded him of flight 52.
this was probably very unimportant to share on this subreddit but I guess I’m happy to say that common sense still remains in some people particularly when my dad said “we’re not pilots but even then we know to go back if there’s smoke on a plane”
Posted May 10, 2026, 10:00 PM UTC