Eyewitnesses watched in shock as a small #plane came within feet of crashing into the #DevilsThumb mountain in #Colorado. The aircraft later landed safely at its destination.
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this is an optical illusion. the plane did not “come within feet of crashing”. the plane and the distal cliff side are far away from the observer so there is the false perception that the plane is closer to the distal cliff side than it really is. it’s like looking at a solar eclipse and concluding that the moon nearly crashed into the sun. was it a reckless maneuver? quite possibly. did it nearly result in a crash? hardly.