A 737 drew a penis in the sky (with serious consequences for the prankster pilot)
Strange to say, but the cause would be a statement of closeness to a soccer player
It can hardly be said to be unimaginative for the pilot who, aboard his 737, drew a penis in the sky Of Russia.
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It happened last November 11. The aircraft involved, a 737 departed from Moscow and directed to Yekaterinburg, part of the low-cost fleet Pobeda (a subsidiary of the much better-known Aeroflot), charted an odd trajectory. An authorized operation, but quite different in result from what the airport authorities had allowed.
The penis in the sky of the low-cost Pobeda
The flight in question, labeled DP407, lasted less than two hours. November 11, however, was different. When there was about half an hour to go, the pilot asked the control tower for permission to perform some maneuvers in the air, officially to test the navigation system.
For twenty minutes, the plane "circled" in the sky. The result? A large penis. Which would also be funny, if it had not become a real case in Russia.
The reason has to do with-football! Well, yes. Recently Artem Dzyuba, Zenit St. Petersburg striker and national team captain, was suspended after showing himself intent on masturbating in bed. A gesture that had made him a target of both opponents and fans, forcing the team to take action. Could the penis in the sky drawn by the pilot be a gesture of closeness and solidarity?
The Federal Air Transport Agency wanted to see this through, opening a'investigation. The result? Such maneuvers were unnecessary, and were really a gesture of solidarity toward Dzyuba. Not only that: according to the authorities, the gesture would be confirmation of how Pobeda has lost control over the safety culture, which should be the primary goal of an airline. Not least because, already the previous day, a flight from Moscow to St. Petersburg had requested permission to perform special maneuvers to test fuel drainage. A request that time was denied, considering how the operation is not possible for an aircraft. Thus, director of flight operations Denis Petrikov has been fired. The general manager got off with a reprimand, while the fate of the pilot has not been disclosed.
Background
Drawing a penis in the sky had already been done in 2017 by the crew of a E/A-18 Growler. Taking off from Whidbey Island (Seattle), the fighter had drawn a strange pattern, which was immortalized by Okanogan County residents and shared on social media: immediate suspension of the pilots.
Decidedly more poetic is the "farewell" of the Boeing 747-458 4X-ELC of the El Al Israel Airlines. On its last flight, the aircraft drew the silhouette of a plane. A kind of farewell, after twenty-five years of service. The 747 from Qantas, on the other hand, for his final flight he plotted a kangaroo above Sydney Harbor before continuing the journey to Los Angeles.
And what about the heart designed by theAirbus Virgin Atlantic On Valentine's Day 2018? "To prove that indeed love is in the air, Virgin Atlantic flight VS850P departed London Gatwick on Feb. 14 and traced a heart as it traveled over the southwest coast of England," the airline wrote that day. Explaining how the operation had been approved by the National Air Traffic Services (NATS), and how that was actually a practice flight.
