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| Posted on 2009-02-13 02:30:53 AM |
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A commercial plane crashed a mile away from my house.
No, really.
I'm absolutely shaken right now. Thank god that the plane didn't hit my house.
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| Posted on 2009-02-13 03:41:08 AM |
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Woah, you got lucky. 49 People passed on and you haven't been damaged by a plane crash landing a mile away from your house.
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| Posted on 2009-02-13 03:44:02 AM |
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a plane crashed in a neighborhood near me once scared the crap out of me, but it wasnt a passenger plane i think it was an F-16, the pilot ejected just in time, good thing no one was hurt, that sucks though, i feel really bad for those people :/
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| Posted on 2009-02-13 03:44:41 AM |
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If only the 200 people who died in Victorian bushfires were as lucky as you.
Lol, i posted 40 seconds after Tama
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| Last edited on 2009-02-13 03:45:24 AM by Blumiere. |
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| Posted on 2009-02-14 05:04:23 AM |
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Wow. That's the kind of thing you never expect to happen.
QuoteAmong the crash victims was Beverly Eckert, the widow of Sean Rooney, who was killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Hey, irony.
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| Posted on 2009-02-14 12:38:22 PM |
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In one in buffalo,51 people died:
1 in the house
Everyone on the plane
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| Last edited on 2009-02-14 12:39:24 PM by The Guy Who's Made of Fire. |
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| Posted on 2009-02-14 09:10:23 PM |
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Originally posted by The Guy Who's Made of FireIn one in buffalo,51 people died:
1 in the house
Everyone on the plane
Actually, only 50.
44 passengers
4 crew
1 jumpseater
1 on ground
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| Posted on 2009-02-14 09:44:59 PM |
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That must've been really freaky. I would die if I was in your place. I'd be scared to death! Get it? </horrible joke>
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| Posted on 2009-02-17 07:27:58 PM |
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Man close dodge...my closest death was rolling down a hill in a truck ALMOST into a raging river and being saved by the only tree in a 3 mile radius.
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| Posted on 2009-02-18 05:08:34 AM |
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Heh, that reminds me of an incident with my dad's truck. Brand new F350. We were driving down the highway, coming up a hill, accelerating so we could pass someone once we came over it. We also had a trailer. The speed limit on this highway is like 110km/h (~70mph), so to make passing speed pulling a trailer uphill, he had to put the accelerator right to the floor.
So he pulls out and passes and then I notice he seems to be accelerating erratically. He's a professional (literally), so it's pretty strange for him to drive poorly, but for some reason he'd come right up behind the guy in front of us, then slow right down until there was a decent gap again, then get right back up behind him, slow down again, etc. Just as I was about to ask why, he explained: the accelerator was stuck.
He pulled onto the shoulder and used the brakes to slow down as much as possible before shifting into netural to slow to a stop, nearly losing control and driving right off the side of a cliff. After a bit of poking around, we discovered the problem: the floor mat had come loose and managed to pin the pedal down. V_v
Not exactly comparable to a plane crash, but Tyler6498's post reminded me of it. Pretty spooky at the time, especially not knowing why it was stuck (I didn't even realize it was physically stuck down until we discovered the problem), flying down the highway in an out-of-control truck at 120k.
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| Posted on 2009-02-18 08:11:20 AM |
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When I was in at a friend in Leverkusen (near Cologne), a plane crashed right in the house next to us. Thanks it was a gliding plane.
But still:
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