Why This Topic Landed in Japan

Two grim accidents abroad spread through Japanese boards for very different reasons. In Argentina, a 42-year-old veteran flight instructor opened the door and jumped from a Cessna at about 250 meters during a training flight, leaving his 22-year-old female trainee to take the controls and land safely on her own; judicial authorities concluded it was a suicide. The story went viral on the sheer shock of "an instructor killing himself in front of his student," combined with the drama of a trainee who kept her composure in a hopeless situation — and it revived pointed questions about why someone reportedly under psychiatric treatment had been allowed to fly. The second case, a Russian influencer who poured tens of kilograms of dry ice into a pool in an enclosed space and killed three by CO2 poisoning, was read as a self-inflicted disaster born of missing basic science and a craving for social-media clout.

Key Reaction Themes

  • Praise for the trainee, criticism of safety management — Admiration for the young woman who landed calmly sat alongside sharp questions about why an instructor in treatment was allowed to fly.
  • Complicated feelings toward the instructor — His final words, "you can do it," left commenters torn between sympathy and unease.
  • Exasperation at influencer recklessness — The dry-ice deaths drew contempt for a culture that risks lives for online attention.

What Japanese Netizens Are Saying

Argentine flight instructor jumps from a Cessna, trainee lands alone

A veteran instructor jumped to his death from 250 meters mid-flight, and the 22-year-old trainee left behind calmly landed the plane and survived.

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【悲報】飛行中のセスナ機から教官が突然ダイブ、訓練生が自力で生還 ■🇦🇷アルゼンチン ・ベテラン教官レアンドロ(42)氏 ・訓練生のロサリオ(22)さんと飛行中 →突然「君ならできる」と言い残し、ドアを開け高度250mから身を投げてしまう ・残された訓練生、絶望のなか冷静に操縦を引き継ぎ無事着陸  Show more

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Comments:

  • "I always wonder — why let someone fly while they're in treatment or under suspicion of mental illness? Isn't that exactly where the strictest checks should be?"
  • "Please don't take your own life during a student's lesson… The young woman made it back safely, but apparently she still can't get over the shock."
  • "The most outrageous thing anyone's ever been thrown into, lol."
  • "W-wait, what? So it wasn't decided from the start as a test of whether the trainee could stay calm — the instructor just suddenly took it into his head and dove out on his own?"
  • "There's something complicated about the fact that the instructor could offer such positive words to someone else."
  • "If you can land a plane in a moment of panic, you can probably do anything."
  • "It's absolutely the wrong kind of training, but the experience she gained must be insane."
  • "This is exactly why mental-health checks in aviation are brutally strict……"
  • "There's a limit to how much you can just dump everything onto someone.."

Russian influencer's dry-ice stunt kills three

An influencer poured huge amounts of dry ice into a pool in an enclosed space for a party fog effect, killing three by carbon-dioxide poisoning.

Comments:

  • "This takes me back — I saw this about a year ago."
  • "You can't become an influencer without the beggar's mindset of wanting to post a video like this to make money."
  • "If I'm going to die either way, I'd rather go by dry ice than by a drone."