“As part of these events, the airline had also planned an aircraft flyover, a meaningful gesture to honor the memory of those lost within the pilot community, but will suspend those plans due to concerns in the community and instead carry on with the other events of the day,” spokesperson Russell Carlton said in an email.
Before the cancellation, the City of Denver was warning emergency dispatchers, first responders and the public not to panic at the sight of the planned commemoration.
What a stupid idea. What next, they delay controlled demolition of a couple of buildings until 9/11 as a tribute?
I wonder the salary of the person who came up with this idea.
How did this get approved? You’d think someone in the chain would say maybe a flyover for 9/11 is a bad idea.
This is on par with commemorating burn victims with a pyrotechnics show.
Karen Carpenter Memorial Buffet
Just slightly out of touch jfc
Ignoring how inappropriate it is, it’s still a boring thing to see.
“Hey want to go outside and watch a regular ass plane fly across the sky?”
You see it as a boring plane. They see it as a giant flying billboard.
They could do a low pass over downtown to make it more interesting
wtf are they smoking at united lmao
are they planning a re-enactment for next year?
Why do a flyover when you can do a flyinto?
If you think that’s bad, you should hear the original plan for how they were going to conclude the event.
Lol
LMFAO even.
Who the fuck ever thought that was a remotely appropriate idea? Fucking idiots.
rofl
Okay…so what would the fighter jets do?
Like…let’s say they did this.
This 2 jets are escorting the plane, but stay with me now, some radical on the planes highjack the plane. Now it’s flying towards ground zero… Are the fighters gonna blow it up and the folks on board?
Ya that would be fucking amazing to see on such a tragic day. Fucking dumb.
And I know maybe I’m dumb and don’t get why they’re escorting it. But the bad guys who would do something aren’t gonna be coming in with their own jets to get into a dogfight. They’ll be regular looking dude with a pocket knife or a bomb strapped to his chest or some shit.
