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Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash

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by Insanity

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I briefly entertained flying planes as a hobby. I live next to a small-ish local airfield and a coworker of mine got his license there. Then I learned more about it, and there's way to many accidents like these for me to be comfortable with the risk I'd be taking.
I have no issue with flying commercial planes, but I guess I don't trust myself _and_ the smaller planes enough to do this.
RIP Claude, horrible way to die.

by seanvk

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My Dad, a flight instructor, loves to remind me that there are bold pilots and old pilots. But there are no old bold pilots.

by cf100clunk

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by lstodd

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by toomuchtodo

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by BoredPositron

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by comrade1234

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by brador

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Why don't planes have parachutes? like a huge parachute that pops on stall to slowly descent the plane?

by iwontberude

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So many nerds here in Silicon Valley love to fly small aircraft, it’s an autistic comorbidity. You’ll never catch me acting so foolish.

by cpncrunch

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Non paywall source: https://www.reuters.com/world/ubisofts-co-founder-claude-gui...

by m0llusk

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This sort of thing is one of the reasons Elon became so important at Tesla. The other key players died in a freakish plane crash, apparently hitting transmission lines at low altitude which is not something parachutes would likely have helped with.
https://www.wired.com/2010/02/plane-crash-kills-tesla-employ...

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by speedgoose

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by ThaFresh

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