Real-Life Mantis Toboggan? Pilot Pulls Maneuver Straight From ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’
All 80 passengers and crew members on yesterday's Delta Flight 4819 thankfully survived a dramatic crash landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport. No word yet on whether or not any of them ever ended up beating Boggs.
Right now, investigators are pouring through the details of the latest of several aviation disasters in the last month as the Trump Administration begins to gut the FAA and send the air travel industry further into instability. Though fear and uncertainty now run rampant throughout the aviation business, as we all know, when there’s a mile-high crisis, it’s best to turn to the experts — you know, doctors, pilots, doctors who are also pilots — to steer us toward open skies and keep our drinking competitions on track. Luckily for the passengers of Flight 4819 yesterday afternoon, when the CRJ900 jet sheered off one of its wings and touched down in a tumbling wreck that ended with the damaged fuselage laying upside down on the runway, they had such a well-hung hero in the cockpit.
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As It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia fans have spent the last day reminding the mainstream media covering the Delta crash, the life-saving maneuver put on display during yesterday’s disaster, known as “inverting the bird,” is an invention of aviation pioneer and altitude sickness specialist Dr. Mantis Toboggan:
In the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 10 masterpiece “The Gang Beats Boggs,” Dennis, Dee, Charlie and Frank’s competition to see if they could surpass MLB Hall-of-Famer Wade Boggs’ record for drinking at least 50 beers on a flight from Boston to Los Angeles nearly derails (or crash-lands) when another passenger starts ordering beers, prompting Frank to put on his doctor’s magnum to drug and quickly restrain the rival drinker before attempting to lay some chum with the flight attendant.
Dr. Toboggan’s remarkable exploits are a long-running joke on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, but safely landing a plane upside down after a passenger chewed through the body of the aircraft has to be the most amazing accolade on his impressive resume — or, at least it was, until this copy-cat over at Delta made the maneuver slightly less rare yesterday.
Between the Toronto inverted bird and Dennis butting his way into the Air Sex Society, it seems like everyone wants to copy Dr. Toboggan’s homework. But, sadly, no one wants to meet him in the bathroom.
