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What do people think about the Airplane hour episode of Mythbusters? (Mythbusters is a Discovery Channel show that might also air on BBC in the UK.)<br /><br />The myths on that episode:<li>That someone with no training at all could land a passenger airliner. They claimed that no flight has ever had both the pilot and copilot incapacitated. Personally, I think that a Helios Air flight and 4 aircraft on 9-11-2001 all qualified. But those were ignored for reasons that weren't mentioned and weren't even mentioned themselves. (Plausible)<li>That from 4000 ft, a skydiver can fall for 90 seconds without pulling his chute. (Busted)<li>That you can hold a conversation while skydiving before pulling your chute. (Busted)<li>That someone can catch up with someone else that had a 15 second head start and reach them before they pull their chute. On the show, they had a skydiver shoot past the first skydiver, but no attempt at an intercept was made. (Officially, plausible; but without the intercept, I count it as busted)</li></li></li></li> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Will Pittenger<hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Add this user box to your Wikipedia User Page to show your support for the SDC forums: <div style="margin-left:1em">{{User:Will Pittenger/User Boxes/Space.com Account}}</div> </div>