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Man who pulled out of the Titan sub trip with his son said Stockton Rush flew to convince them on an experimental plane he built himself

https://www.insider.com/titanic-sub-stockton-rush-flew-experimental-plane-visit-reluctant-passengers-2023-6

Jay Bloom said OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush came to him "on a two-seater experimental plane to pitch me to go on a five-seater experimental sub."

Man who pulled out of the Titan sub trip with his son said Stockton Rush flew to convince them on an experimental plane he built himself

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NotSteve_

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This gets more absurd every new story lol

nihilx7E3

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right? the more that comes out about oceangate, the more baffled i am that this is a real company that actually generated revenue; i mean the context & details surrounding this story have become ironic enough to be almost cartoonish at this point. even the name of the company in itself seems like some sort of foreshadowing (well, if we're going by past uses of the -gate suffix)

floofloof

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They weren't a profitable company though, according to the late CEO. And the sub imploded on its 5th voyage.

ScrumblesPAbernathy

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Stockton Rush is a killer and should be charged posthumously with four counts of negligent homicide. He's just as culpable, if not more, that someone who gets behind the wheel drink and kills their passengers.

derivator

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Quadruple homicide, that's the death penalty right there. Oh, wait... Well, they could at least send his corpse to jail. Oh, wait...

Jode

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This is not some absurd thing. I fly an expirimental plane that I bought off of sombody who "built it themselves". There's an airshow every year in Wisconsin where about 10,000 aircraft fly in and a good chunk of those are expirimental. Aircraft kits are very very easy to build these days.

keeb420

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Yeah without.knowing more about the craft itself this is just a click bait headline.

Frederic

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Well, building your own plane exists for years, there is big communities and forums etc nowadays, but even in the 50s you were able to do it, buy kits, etc.