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FTFYOriginally posted by Stevie Wonder Boy -
Accident waiting to happen.What happens in General, stays in General.You know what they say about assumptions!Comment
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Used to work as airport security during hols when at Uni.
Plenty of full emergencies but nothing too major, usually caused by a light not coming on for landing gear or a loss of cabin pressure.
Only one serious incident was a guy in a bi-plane (Tiger-Moth IIRC) crashing in to a field straight after take off. He went straight up and then straight down again. He got away with a broken neck.
Apparently my memory isn't so good.
http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=22640Last edited by Pondlife; 1 February 2013, 10:32.Comment
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The funniest I've seen was a motorbike hit by a milkfloat by the campsite I was staying at, it was like watching Father TedDoing the needful since 1827Comment
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A moving campsite!Originally posted by amcdonald View Post
And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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Saw a Tornado F3 land with its undercarriage up! Had to guard a chunk of another in a miserably wet Lincolnshire field after a mid air collision.
Ran like feck when a Phantom F4 clipped a missile trolley when scrambling.
tulip myself for weeks after seeing a F3 off only for it never to come back! I’d signed it off as serviceable! Turns out the crew got disorientated in a dogfight in cloud and ‘climbed ‘ into the sea!But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. Pliny the youngerComment
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A little puerile but this made me laugh from the accident description:Originally posted by Pondlife View Post
The ATC controller saw 'BJ' start to turn crosswind but his attention was momentarily drawn to an aircraft on final approach. When he looked back, 'BJ' was descending in a nose down attitude, banked to the right.Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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Crossing the road, this cyclist shoots past me through a red light (of course) and then proceeds to go on the inside of a lorry on a corner where the truck is going to have to turn in sharply leaving the cyclist with no room.
The cyclist was on the blind side of the lorry so she ended up getting knocked off her bike, and the lorry then proceeds to run over the back wheel of her bike, she's still caught under the bike and she starts screaming, only for the fact she did that and the lorry driver happened to have his window open he would have run over her legs.
I stayed around to help her off the road and rang the police and ambulance.Comment
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Last year in Berlin, yes. BMW speeds through red light and drives right into the side of some silver car at the crossroads. BMW doesn't stop however and speeds away. BMW was obviously stolen and subsequently dumped about 300 metres down the road, driver and passengers fleeing on foot.
Driver of silver car bleeding from arm and head. Police came and took all our details (we later had to submit written statements).
Three days later the driver of the silver car phones my mother, as he still had her pen (pricy-ish Mont Blanc pen) and returns it same day - got her details from the police. Sweet, I thought.Comment
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