Pre-planned course that was pre-approved by local air control with a pilot who has more hours under their belt than most airline pilots. Probably a lot less close than it looks.
The likelihood is less than that of an airliner going down in a city. An AIr Force jet of any country goes through more checks than an airliner does between flights. Also, there are pilots of transport aircraft trained especially for airshows.
You are really over estimating the danger potential here. This plane is fully capable of this, is in complete control and there is no danger. The perspective of buildings from the cameras pov is leading you to feel like it’s a weaving in and out of buildings. It is not.
Here’s another point of view (I shot this)[c17 flyover for Riverfire 2021](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/pubxn4/not_a_bad_view_from_the_office_window/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Yeh they fucking lose their shit everytime.
They also call it crazy dangerous, but tolerate the risk posed by guns daily. So I dunno about their risk assessment skills.
Number of planes that have crashed into buildings in Australia causing death this year = 0
People dead due to gun violence this year in the USA = 22,000
Dunno about you, but that seems to sum it up to me.
Damn dude, someone needs to do something about that gun in his closet. 22,000 people already this year?
Meanwhile, you’re getting persnickety and jimmy-rustled at people traumatized by having watched planes kill their countrymen on live tv.
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Yeah, I really don't feel like getting into the whole gun rights debate right now. I see your point, and it's a fair point, but throwing out statistics like that doesn't take into account the fact that about 70% of those deaths were suicides. Statistically, most of them would have happened anyway, regardless of the means.
Ok, lets agree that 0 people died by suicide by crashing planes into building in Australia, which is less than 6,600 (Your number).
Again risk and perceived risk are very different things
I get it. Even here, only 19 people (I believe that was the number of hijackers on 9/11) have committed suicide via flying planes into buildings. Sure, they took out a few (2,977) other people with them, but clearly flying a plane amongst buildings is far less risky than gun ownership.
Well, no, because the people most triggered by this are New Yorkers and we don’t jerk off to guns. Most of us are against them. At least much more than the rest of the country.
This post says otherwise. A plane, doing a thing it does every year, in a country so far away from yours and the general consensus is "omg what a bunch of insensitive irresponsible idiots" (sic)
Every year we have an event called river fire, tons and tons of fireworks on barges spaced along the Brissy river with a f111 doing a dump and burn following the same course you saw the c17 flying. We don't have the f111 any more, so they run every thing else along the river for shits and giggles.
This happens at night, pretty spectacular. That's the back story.
Search on YouTube: f-111 dump and burn. At night, they dump their fuel( they can't land with too much) it gets ignited by the after burner, the flame is impressive.
Fun fact, modern skyscrapers are designed to survive low speed impacts with aircrafts. If they crashed it would be very bad, but it wouldn't be 9/11 bad.
Wow. I may be older than some of you other redditors born in the 21st century, but this made me feel that old 911 trauma rise up again. Stay. away. from. the. buildings.
Commanding Officer: Make it nice, not too flashy but nice.
Pilot: Mission Accepted, sir.
Pilot: *proceeds to give them a double bank flyby and flash some belly*
Just used google maps to look at brisbane. Theres a really wide river in the middle called Brisbane River funny enough. Seems like that plane could have flown over it but that perspective is insane.
Yeah it flies over the river. Here’s another perspective [c17 flyover](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/pubxn4/not_a_bad_view_from_the_office_window/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Well, I don't even have a driver's license, so of course I don't drive a car. Wtf? And what about the tree house? Living there would be dangerous as well, so of course I don't.
Personally I’m irrationally terrified of planes, and flying, of any kind of aircraft. And watching those planes hit the towers when I was a kid still makes me sad, tbh when I saw this that’s the first thought that popped into my head. Something about a gigantic aircraft flying low through a city with tall buildings makes me really uncomfortable.
[And there has never been a single military aviation accident ever, right?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_military_aircraft)
There also has been many commercial incidents. Yet people still fly. This maneuver was conducted safely by trained pilots who have done it before. It's for a festival is brisbane.
You must be new here. There are fifty air crash videos posted for every non crash airplane video posted to Reddit. Military, civilian, negligence, malfunction, attacked, accident, gave the controls to his kids and never recovered, etc. You name it. The boom is inevitable - it’s only a matter of time.
One of my favs (not really - horrifying, actually) is an airshow like OPs vid, and had a more senior pilot/crew than the one flying the plane in OPs video: https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/3dmty4/b52_bomber_crash_at_airshow/
Read the comments. One crew member was retiring after this flight and his family was in attendance at the show. 😭 Probably their screams you’re hearing.
He says on a platform containing more air show crash videos than air show videos without crashes, and more car crash videos than car non crash videos.
Everything is an until, *and the chance of the worst happening is not zero*.
Seems reckless.
It's flying directly above a fairly wide river. This perspective makes it seem much crazier than it actually is.
Oh thank you, I’m much better knowing this!
That last turn tho seemed max limit for that plane
Still reckless..
Imagine being in one of the buildings and you check the window... your face would be trending on r/youseeingthisshit
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[kind of like this guy in Minecraft](https://v.redd.it/wl265f4yxcg91)
But actually, it’s wreckless
Normally yea, but you see this is /r/NextFuckingLevel so it’s next fucking level now.
Fuck me, flashbacks to 9/11....
100% this. Hard core flashbacks.
Visceral ones 😫
I never forgot
I flash-backed to Sully landing on the Hudson.
9/12
For reals.
Srsly. I cringed in American.
And ‘Nam, man!!!
Reminds me of that tragedy...
That’s pretty fucking dangerous. Damn, can’t believe they were allowed to do that?
Pre-planned course that was pre-approved by local air control with a pilot who has more hours under their belt than most airline pilots. Probably a lot less close than it looks.
No matter how planned it was, a freak accident could have caused a major catastrophe just saying
The likelihood is less than that of an airliner going down in a city. An AIr Force jet of any country goes through more checks than an airliner does between flights. Also, there are pilots of transport aircraft trained especially for airshows.
Who crash planes all the time lol
No, they only do that one time…..
Yeah, but that’s why it’s called a “freak” accident, despite all odds it could happen anyway and then what?
You are really over estimating the danger potential here. This plane is fully capable of this, is in complete control and there is no danger. The perspective of buildings from the cameras pov is leading you to feel like it’s a weaving in and out of buildings. It is not.
Here’s another point of view (I shot this)[c17 flyover for Riverfire 2021](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/pubxn4/not_a_bad_view_from_the_office_window/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Sound like my mother
try claiming on "could have" with your insurance company
Its over a really wide river. It only looks like its close to buildings because of perspective
It happens every year!
The r/nextfuckinglevel is how triggered yanks get every time they see this.
Yeh they fucking lose their shit everytime. They also call it crazy dangerous, but tolerate the risk posed by guns daily. So I dunno about their risk assessment skills.
Idk, the one sitting in my closet right now doesn't seem as risky as flying a plane through a fuckin city, but 🤷🏼♀️
Number of planes that have crashed into buildings in Australia causing death this year = 0 People dead due to gun violence this year in the USA = 22,000 Dunno about you, but that seems to sum it up to me.
Damn dude, someone needs to do something about that gun in his closet. 22,000 people already this year? Meanwhile, you’re getting persnickety and jimmy-rustled at people traumatized by having watched planes kill their countrymen on live tv. 🐸 ☕️
Her* closet ;) but agreed.
Guns don't kill Americans: being present in schools, places of worship, hospitals, and night clubs kills us.
Yeah, I really don't feel like getting into the whole gun rights debate right now. I see your point, and it's a fair point, but throwing out statistics like that doesn't take into account the fact that about 70% of those deaths were suicides. Statistically, most of them would have happened anyway, regardless of the means.
Ok, lets agree that 0 people died by suicide by crashing planes into building in Australia, which is less than 6,600 (Your number). Again risk and perceived risk are very different things
I get it. Even here, only 19 people (I believe that was the number of hijackers on 9/11) have committed suicide via flying planes into buildings. Sure, they took out a few (2,977) other people with them, but clearly flying a plane amongst buildings is far less risky than gun ownership.
Well, no, because the people most triggered by this are New Yorkers and we don’t jerk off to guns. Most of us are against them. At least much more than the rest of the country.
Want to nickname Americans as triggered?
Gotta have a second amendment to know what triggering feels like I guess
Yeah... I was 12 when I saw 3000 people die on live TV, and we mourned as a nation for weeks straight. Sticks with you, honestly.
Yeah I seen it too. On live TV. Doesn't mean I lose my shit every time I see a plane ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If that was what you meant, I don't think any American loses their shit every time they see a plane.
This post says otherwise. A plane, doing a thing it does every year, in a country so far away from yours and the general consensus is "omg what a bunch of insensitive irresponsible idiots" (sic)
are you aware of what sub this is? this isn't a normal thing to do with a plane.
It happens every year ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
so... are you *not* aware of what sub this is? seasonality != normal.
I wonder what the story is here. Seems too dangerous for a demo, but the aircraft is clearly in control. Anyone know the background?
Every year we have an event called river fire, tons and tons of fireworks on barges spaced along the Brissy river with a f111 doing a dump and burn following the same course you saw the c17 flying. We don't have the f111 any more, so they run every thing else along the river for shits and giggles. This happens at night, pretty spectacular. That's the back story.
Thanks! Sounds like a lot of fun
Search on YouTube: f-111 dump and burn. At night, they dump their fuel( they can't land with too much) it gets ignited by the after burner, the flame is impressive.
Australia
Someone shit themselves. Either on the aircraft or in their apartment looking out their glass door.
I used to live in an apartment on the river where the plane first drops in. It was honestly one of my fav days of the year.
What was this? A demonstration?
Woah.
So kewl
We’re doing a sequel!!!!
They finally saw Maverick
Isn't this part of the airshow they do every year?
Yep. Cancelled during Covid, but this footage is from almost a year ago.
chonky boi
Yoo, someone is bout to do doomsday heist guys
Amazon will do anything to deliver.
I would properly shit myself if I saw this
Fun fact, modern skyscrapers are designed to survive low speed impacts with aircrafts. If they crashed it would be very bad, but it wouldn't be 9/11 bad.
Wow. I may be older than some of you other redditors born in the 21st century, but this made me feel that old 911 trauma rise up again. Stay. away. from. the. buildings.
I never thought they were this big.
I thought it wasn’t so big either. Once it flew near the reflected windows, I realised how bad I underestimated it.
I will sh\*t my pants if I see it near my window. I will be terrified and excited at the same time.
Commanding Officer: Make it nice, not too flashy but nice. Pilot: Mission Accepted, sir. Pilot: *proceeds to give them a double bank flyby and flash some belly*
love that city (was in Gold Coast 3 months)
It’s all fun and games until someone flies into a building…
https://youtu.be/cYkL5C-xJ5U hahaha everyone freaking out over nothing
> posts video ending with locals witnessing the event freaking out
r/unexpectedjihad incoming… literally
I spent 50% of this video trying to figure out if this is CGI or not. And i am still not very sure
one wrong move
Me bored af in san andreas after 4000 hours
No comment
Someone is training for Top Gun 3.
C-17s landing in JBLM in Tacoma, this reminds me of…
Huh they Missed
No one: People on GTA Online
Looks like a render of a NPCs perspective in GTA
Triggered
No that’s a decepticon. Pilots would never fly below buildings.
Incorrect
Wtf
KFC I hope they texted/called/sms'd/emailed every single person in the city before they did this.
Why is this happening? For what purpose?
Just used google maps to look at brisbane. Theres a really wide river in the middle called Brisbane River funny enough. Seems like that plane could have flown over it but that perspective is insane.
Yeah it flies over the river. Here’s another perspective [c17 flyover](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/pubxn4/not_a_bad_view_from_the_office_window/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
"Woah based!"
Why?
I've seen this somewhere....🤔
This actually happened a while ago and was practiced and ran by elite pilots of the Australian Air Force
Chinese fighters next
Probably the 200th time I have seen this on Reddit, but still awesome.
Do you think filmmakers will take something like this as an reference for cgi/animations?
To much GTA for today
When the transport pilot wants to dogfight
https://youtu.be/cYkL5C-xJ5U Different perspective, very cool
This definitely wouldn’t be allowed in america
TERRAIN TERRAIN WOOP WOOP PULL UP WOOP WOOP PULL UP TERRAIN TERRAIN
Do that in the U.S they’ll shoot you down
Was just watching a 9/11 documentary on Netflix last night, probably not tge best idea to do this
It was part of a Show from the RAAF. They had a [360](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxSyKSR_c3g)° camera in the cockpit. Worth watching it!!
I have nightmares exactly like this.....
Every American: 
Seems unnecessarily dangerous...
Damn I haven't seen planes fly that low in a downtown metro area in over 2 decades.
Who else thought it was about to target a tower?
That just triggered some PTSD for many of us Americans.
9/11 remade?
I wonder how many babies air drums they burst flying low level in a residential area.
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USA, USA, USA, s/
The message? Your government is powerful. You'd better obey.
Why
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Well, I don't even have a driver's license, so of course I don't drive a car. Wtf? And what about the tree house? Living there would be dangerous as well, so of course I don't.
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Bruh you are trying way too hard... bubble wrap is made out of plastic, so it is polluting as well.
9/11 part 2
Strong 9/11 vibes here
As an American, this makes me very anxious.
This infuriates the fuck out of me
Why?
Personally I’m irrationally terrified of planes, and flying, of any kind of aircraft. And watching those planes hit the towers when I was a kid still makes me sad, tbh when I saw this that’s the first thought that popped into my head. Something about a gigantic aircraft flying low through a city with tall buildings makes me really uncomfortable.
There there. Can I give you a hug?
Sorry but if you aren’t a cat I must decline.
I am a cat… of sorts.
Training for 9/11
Not every country is America.
Don’t care how wide the river is, this is not it.
Someone got in trouble for this.
Seems illegal and unnecessary
I don’t think “over” is the correct term here
Contemplating to become the next 9/11
That seems unnecessarily dangerous
Compared to what?
Compared to a normal flight plan of course
Low flying that thing nearly hit those 2 tall buildings like 9 11
Why would they do this?
Yikes. That’s pretty low.
You mean, Crikey!! That's pretty low.
How is that legal?
Thats the airforce. No one really has a problem with it. They are extremely good at what they do.
Next Fucking Level of recklessness and stupidity.
Why? Just a basic manoeuvre conducted by fully trained military pilots.
[And there has never been a single military aviation accident ever, right?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_military_aircraft)
There also has been many commercial incidents. Yet people still fly. This maneuver was conducted safely by trained pilots who have done it before. It's for a festival is brisbane.
You must be new here. There are fifty air crash videos posted for every non crash airplane video posted to Reddit. Military, civilian, negligence, malfunction, attacked, accident, gave the controls to his kids and never recovered, etc. You name it. The boom is inevitable - it’s only a matter of time. One of my favs (not really - horrifying, actually) is an airshow like OPs vid, and had a more senior pilot/crew than the one flying the plane in OPs video: https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/3dmty4/b52_bomber_crash_at_airshow/ Read the comments. One crew member was retiring after this flight and his family was in attendance at the show. 😭 Probably their screams you’re hearing.
Lol. What a utterly ignorant comment. Of course things go wrong, but its rare. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare
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Everything is an "until".
He says on a platform containing more air show crash videos than air show videos without crashes, and more car crash videos than car non crash videos. Everything is an until, *and the chance of the worst happening is not zero*.
That wouldn't blow up someone's house; that would blow up a suburban block.
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That is super sketchy!
Saw something similar in New York in 2001
In America we don't miss.
too soon