r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RoyalChris • 24d ago

Image Passengers standing on the wing of an American Airlines plane after it caught fire at Denver International Airport an hour ago. Everyone got out safely.

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u/justaPOLguy 24d ago

There are fuel tanks in the wings….

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u/DookieShoez 24d ago

Well there’s smoke in the cabin

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u/throw_away_ADT 24d ago

Better than on the water I guess 

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u/Infamous-Echo-2961 24d ago

And fire in the sky

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u/WechTreck 24d ago

Or fire in the sky

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u/jimflaigle 24d ago

The floor is lava.

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u/DookieShoez 24d ago

Jet fuel doesn’t melt concrete floors!

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u/boredlady819 24d ago

Fire can’t go through doors, stupid!

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u/PianoMittens 24d ago

Fire in the sky?

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u/EaterOfFood 24d ago

Very nearly

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u/tigernet_1994 24d ago

It’s from the song “smoke on the water”

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u/willwork4pii 24d ago

Yep, fires a perfect reason to stand upon a fuel tank.

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u/DookieShoez 24d ago

Well when its stay in the cabin to suffocate and die right now, vs hop out onto the wing that is not on fire at the moment and may not ever be, as guys with ladders are coming over to get us down, I’m choosing the latter.

Call me crazy lol

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u/thedirtymeanie 24d ago

Better to stand on the fuel tanks than to be in the burning fucking plane

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u/DocSword 24d ago

They should cover the wings in steel beams for safety

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u/sonsofgondor 24d ago

Where would you rather be? On the wings or the cabin?

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u/BassWingerC-137 24d ago

If someone is blocking my path out of the plane because of this thought, I’m going to stab them in the neck with my pen, and step on their body on the way out.

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u/unitegondwanaland 24d ago

Jet fuel is not combustible at rest.

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u/willwork4pii 24d ago

With a bic lighter.

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u/Dank_Nicholas 24d ago

That's nice, how about when theirs a fire raging right next to it?