Watch Out For That...

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Horrifying is right.
Hearing the last words she said with the panic in her voice is pretty messed up.

The voice recording was the distressing part.

 

[Channel98]

"Mayday! Mayday! We are going to crash into the ground!" Those chilling words are reminiscent of the last words of Jane Dornacker, who, on October 22, 1986, was giving a traffic report during Joey Reynolds' afternoon show on WNBC in New York: "Hit the water! Hit the water! Hit the water!" The helicopter crashed into the Hudson River and sank. Dornacker was knocked unconscious and died en route to a hospital. The pilot was severely injured but survived.

 

[JHDK]

Wow! Having video of the crash so close is wild. Crazy to actually see the fraction of a second before impact screenshotted from the video.

 

[JHDK]

Do you think all the people on the plane were dead before the explosion?

You can read wildly different reports about how fast it was going when it hit the ground but the slowest I've read is still around 250/mph. I was talking with Pam about this and I was saying that I assume they all died in the split second between when the plane hit the ground and when the explosion occurred. That seems logical to me but I have no facts to back my thought.

This is the air version of that submarine that imploded a couple years ago. I'm sure the minute or so it took from when they knew shit was going south until impact was horrifying but I also think the actual death of all those people happened so quick they couldn't have possibly felt anything. Right?

IDK, just something I was thinking about this evening.

 

[JHDK]

Haha, sorry I just deleted the post Airplanes & Airports and put it here cause that's where whoever posted about the crash first was talking about it.

The sub was under a second. Note enough time for them to process their stupidity and their doom.

So if we agree they all died on impact, before the explosion, that too under a second.

 

[JHDK]

BTW/If I'm rich enough to be flying private I'm also rich enough to have a pilot and co pilot who like served multiple tours of duty with the Air Force in Iraq or wherever. I'm not trusting some 20 y/o child as my copilot.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Haha, sorry I just deleted the post Airplanes & Airports and put it here cause that's where whoever posted about the crash first was talking about it.



So if we agree they all died on impact, before the explosion, that too under a second.

From what I was reading, it may also be possible they lost consciousness before the impact. They would have been experiencing heavy Gs and the body can only take so many of those.

 

[scotchandcigar]

Yesterday, just as I was wrapping up my workday, this happened

About a mile up the main road we live off of, this dump truck got onto the road with his dump still up, and took out the power lines. Nice, huh?

It took about 3 hours to get power back, although we were running on generator.

 

[Madison]

Yesterday, just as I was wrapping up my workday, this happen
About a mile up the main road we live off of, this dump truck got onto the road with his dump still up, and took out the power lines. Nice, huh?

It took about 3 hours to get power back, although we were running on generator.

Gawd, that looks like an alien ship

 

[HecticArt]

Shocking that they can't remember to put those buckets back down.

 

[JHDK]

Shocking that they can't remember to put those buckets back down.

IDK, I assume most dump truck drivers are not all that much different than I and if I drove one I am positive after doing it long enough there would come a day I forgot. Hahaha.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

When I have my door open and the car started, there is a beep. You would think perhaps if the bucket was up they could have it beep since it is clear from the number of examples that dump truck drivers seem to be a couple bricks short of a load.

 

[HecticArt]

When I have my door open and the car started, there is a beep. You would think perhaps if the bucket was up they could have it beep since it is clear from the number of examples that dump truck drivers seem to be a couple bricks short of a load.

This.

Enough power lines and bridges get hit that you’d think they would add some safety device.

 

[scotchandcigar]

This.

Enough power lines and bridges get hit that you’d think they would add some safety device.

At my work office campus, we have an overhead walkway that was hit so many times, they eventually put a grass median under it, so we can no longer drive through.

 

[HecticArt]

A bridge on the freeway that I pass under regularly got hit by a dump truck 2 years ago.
Only one beam on one direction of traffic was damaged but it took them more than a year to get it fixed.
They raised the rest of the undamaged part of the bridge a foot or two to try and keep it from happening again.

Another bridge on the same freeway got hit by a dump truck last summer. It's still being repaired.

No clue how they are getting the trucks on the freeway without hitting other things first.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

At most McDonalds drive throughs they have a big cement post that you would hit before you hit the window. It might be cheaper to fix that than the bridge.

I assume the truck driver or his insurance has to pay for the repairs? Probably why it takes so long to fix. If there is any body more inefficient than the government it is the insurance companies (when it comes to paying out at least).

 

[JHDK]

Only one beam on one direction of traffic was damaged but it took them more than a year to get it fixed.

Another bridge on the same freeway got hit by a dump truck last summer. It's still being repaired.

Hold up....When shit like those 2 things happen in your backyard isn't it your responsibility to remove your glasses and start pulling off your tie while searching for the nearest phonebooth?

Next thing you know all the locals are talking about how this blur that appeared to be moving faster than a speeding bullet swooped in and saved all the fine citizens of Toledopolis from the unimaginable horror of their architectural emergency.