Reporter cites “flux capacitator” as cause of actual plane crash
Everybody has their pop culture blindspots—those particular TV shows or movies that you just never got around to watching despite their massive cultural imprint. Usually, in those situations, you just hope that your pop culture ignorance doesn’t come out in some embarrassing, highly public fashion. Like, for instance, if you were to proclaim on television that a skydiving plane crash-landed because their fictional time travel technology went haywire.
Earlier this week, Kathryn Burcham of Boston 25 reported on a small plane crash at the Cranland Airport in Hanson, Massachusetts. In the report, she claimed the 20-year-old pilot Jacob Haselden told her the crash was the result of a defective “flux capacitator,” which sounds like a butchering of “flux capacitor” a.k.a. the made-up thing from Back To The Future. While everyone on Twitter was getting a good laugh at Burcham’s expense, some tried to deduce what the pilot may have actually been talking about.