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Comment by edderly | Hacker News Reader

This has no place on HN

Disagree. This is one of the most interesting posts I've seen here in recent months. It's tragic, yes, but also fascinating -- and not just in a rubbernecking way.

I didn't know B-17s were still airworthy, and you don't hear about planes crashing into each other often, even at airshows. As someone casually interested in aviation, I would very much like to hear analysis about how this could've happened, etc.

I never would have expected a video depicting death on HN, especially one involving airplanes.

A disproportionate amount of the best hardware and firmware engineers I know have pilots licenses and are very interested in the mechanics and technical details of flight. Seems perfect for HN.

Seriously doubt any firmware was involved as these aircraft would be manually operated, but I could be wrong. Mechanical malfunction or pilot error would more likely be the cause. Sorry for the loss of life in any case.

How is any of that related to a video showing 6 people dying? This is, literally, like saying you’re into cars, so you watch fatal car crash videos. Sounds like complete nonsense. It’s been flagged to death, so the sentiment wasn’t shared.

Airplane crashes provide an excellent opportunity for failure analysis. IMHO its kind of a decent fit, but the final report will be a better fit.

This is quite ghoulish and fits into the latter category IMO.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

It's the kind of thing you probably wouldn't hear about on TV news unless you were in that same geographical area. It's interesting not because it's a disaster but because of the engineering and (presumed) avoidability involved... the "what went wrong?" angle.

This is all over the US media, there's no engineering content here yet, just a disaster.

shrug We'll just have to disagree.

Agreed.

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