I’ve often wondered about this in times past. and this latest occurrence(I-75, 2 dead) piqued my chagrin on the matter .. pilots of small/medium planes- in bother, admittedly – but – bother brought about by their choice to NOT use the road system to go where they’re going .. deciding to put her down on a busy roadway, in emergencies.
I expect there’ll be some blowback along the lines of ‘you don’t know what it (fear of impending death/serious injury) is like until it happens to YOU‘ and similar, but while I actually *have* had some uh-oh moments brought about by voluntary high risk endeavours (skydiving, for example) .. who the fuck has the right to put dozens more at risk, like THEY don’t matter .. to save their own skin?
And if ‘panic’ is offered as another mitigation, then the panicker in question should not have held the job/position in question.
An empty, or practically(1 or 2 sparse, spaced out cars per quarter mile)empty road? – sure – GO for it .. but from what I’m seeing in the footage this guy(or gal) came down on a much busier road, practically on top of a clump of cars … and in doing so risked killing FAR more people on the road, than he was carrying on the plane.
On a good day, the aircraft in question needs a half mile of runway to stop .. one coming down with no engine control as a bare minimum and fuck knows what else useless is a completely unknowable entity with the potential to kill dozens.. sorry pal, .. try a field and best of luck with it.
One of the 2 dead in this case is some poor fucker that was going about their business driving when someone (still alive afterwards) .. risked THEIR(drivers) lives, to save their own..
Fuck that.
(If I were coming down under a double failed(or flapping fucked-up canopy) back in my jumping days, .. and was gaining on someone floating to earth under good canopy …. I had NO right to try and grab the other party, most likely killing us both). Manners would have dictated steer AWAY from them.
Imagine the Sullenberger transcript, slightly different. ..
“Not going to make Teterboro” ..
We’re gonna be on Broadway”
Nominated by: Cunt’emAll
If they came down in one of those average speed camera areas would everyone on board be liable for a speeding ticket.
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The most disturbing thing about this report is that there’s a city in Florida called Naples.
It’s Napoli, you ignorant cunts.
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I am wondering if anyone has ever mistaken a runway for a motorway; a recently arrived Parking Stanley minicab driver for example…?
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Eastern Europeans do it all the time.
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One of the people on board was Edward Murphy.. so maybe it was a banana up the tail-pipe..
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Congratulations on an unusual cunting first of all.
As I understand it a professional pilot will always try and put a plane down where it’s unlikely to cause casualties to anyone on the ground? Seems pilots of small planes don’t fly by the same rules.
If the road is empty it’s a fair call to try and get the plane down on the nearest desirable surface but if a road is populated by traffic I’d think it was a selfish thing to attempt to land a plane on it. Some causing death by dangerous operation of an aircraft should surely follow.
The pilot probably drives an Audi or BMW, them cunts have no respect for anyone on the road!
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I haven’t driven in over 3 years but if memory serves, the cuntitude gold medal previously held for many years by Audi and BMW drivers was gradually being taken by VW and Land/Range Rover drivers….. maybe the pandemic caused a reversal of that trend.
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What’s the difference between a hedgehog and a Range Rover?
The pricks are on the outside of a hedgehog.
Courtesy of the late Dave Allen.
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Depends what you’re flying Cunt’emAll. I would guess stalling speed of the plane which crashed is 100 knots. The 152 I flew for years had a stalling speed below 50 knots even “clean” i.e. no flaps deployed. That means if your engine dies you’re travelling at a speed close to that of the traffic on a major road and as you’re only sinking at 400′ per second drivers have plenty of time to see you and take avoiding action. When a mate of mine hired a 152 in Florida he was advised in case of engine failure his only option was a road rather than the swamp. He was also advised to try to ascertain who was driving any car you intended to land behind because if it was a woman and she saw you appear in the mirror she might very well hit the brakes!
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That makes sense. In the event of a plane landing on a one-way road from behind, a woman is the most likely to see you coming while she’s applying her make up in the rear view mirror.
There is certainly something to be said for the female ability to multi-task (a skill which completely evaporates at roundabouts sadly).
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Sorry, 400 feet per MINUTE. Dozy twat.
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What’s wrong with a field?
Good enough for a Sopwith Camel.
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Camels can fly? Explains a lot.
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Actually a field would be a great idea considering most of them at the moment are lakes. See – Climate Change is a good thing after all.
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Well it is 2024. If a 6 year old girl can just magically say “I’m a boy” then a plane can magically become a boat and nothing bad can possibly happen.
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Pilot identifies as a driver
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The sepecat jaguar gr1 was tested on the m1 for use as a runway to prove you could in case of wartime damaged airfields n stuff. The saab viggen of the swedish airforce has a foldable rear fin and rudder so it could go under motorway flyovers. I fucking love planes me.
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The yank freeways were built yo carry tanks as well as being makeshift runways for smaller jet aircraft shoukd their airbases be turned to radioactive dust.
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Absolutely right, CP. I believe it was Eisenhower who came up with the policy for all the interstates and major roads as a means to move troops and heavy tanks quickly and efficiently. There is also a coding system on route markers to indicate to military drivers. Of course, this idea must have been stolen from good old Uncle Adolf and his beloved autobahns
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Also, all major highways must be built level and in a straight line, 1 mile out of three, to be used as an emergency runway for the military planes.
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You and me both Dorset. Thanks for posting that. Nice to know I’m not the only geek on ISaC.
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The two women in my life, my wife and the blackburn buccaneer as they are both curvacious lovelies.
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Is your wife is also from Dorset?
I can vouch for the county being home to curvaceous lovelies.
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The old girl was born on anglesey,but is about as welsh as i am. Shes 36 im 51, cashback.
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It was the newly built M55 in 1975. Sorry it be such a pedantic cunt, but I was up there.
Cannot remember fuck all about yesterday….
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I stand corrected said the man in the orthopedic shoes.
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Slight detail change (in the reporting) since the nom was typed .. this time no drivers died, it transpires but at.least one badly injured.
Also I thought afterwards some might argue he *crashed* on the road, moreso, out of control , than trying to land par se, but I put it to you m’lud on reflection that even if so, the fucker was eyeing it up as a landing strip.
And yeah, (Sixdog V).. even though that recent jet (ffs) story got me typing, it IS actually the more frequent Cessna 182 type/sizes putting down on a (busy) road which is at least an annual thing that cumulatively bugged me in the past.
(Finally : The half mile stopping distance is fact : I looked it up.)
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There was a WWII incident where a damaged Halifax coming back from Hunville ran out of time and went to put her down in a field, but saw a young kid in the middle OF the field, .. tried a different spot instead & the pilot died in the crash.
The same kid, now an old man, visited the shrine that was put there every year afterwards until very recently, still wracked with guilt over what happened. (He was interviewed).
There used be SO much manners/dignity/decency in yesteryear.
It must’ve all gotten used-up.
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The early scene in stupid/popcorn movie ‘The Core’ where they put-down a frikken’ Space Shuttle in the L.A. River is a pretty decent action sequence, as those things go.. especially the bit where they approach the flyover that’s lower than the other flyovers …
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r4G6H0C7aYw&pp=ygUedGhlIGNvcmUgc2h1dHRsZSBsYW5kaW5nIHNjZW5l
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The Core is one of the funniest action films put to film, mainly because of the appalling science.
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I’m just disappointed the plane wasn’t carrying vast napalm reservoirs to incinerate more of those petrol head cunts.
A different nom to be sure.
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In addition to your fold-up bike and twirly moustache, do you also sport a “meat is murder” t-shirt and skinny jeans?
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I have no such items, eat meat and despise vegans.
I just don’t care much for lazy arse fuckers who see the need to drive to a shop and get in my way on the road when they could walk instead. I’ll also add that I’d like to see approx. 80% of the shuffling shithead masses exterminated too boot. Hopefully the quackcine experiment will see to that but it’s taking too long.
You made a shit assumption.
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Never advocate the extermination of the ‘shithead masses’ when you are prone to confusing ‘to’ and ‘too’ or your name shall also go on ze list!
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What?
He couldn’t find a river to put down in?
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Or a mosque to fly into…
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Not a good option at jet aircraft speeds Jeezum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEmss85gCbs
The clip shows what virtually always happens. Sully did a fucking amazing job.
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OT at OT. Started the day thinking that Rashford was probably going to score today and start recovering his career at United,.. Yeah right, he’s a fucking useless Uncle Tom cunt.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68392233
The pressure cooker is boiling..
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I see it all kicking off big time later this year Unkle.
I’m hoping it does anyway….
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Two modes of transport I couldn’t be arsed with. I’ve been a passenger in a car and that’s just about it, having earache from someone else who might twig its me if I give anymore details. Aeroplanes, l wouldn’t be seen dead in one and never likely to due to never having flown. The lunatics I’ve witnessed from stories and viewed online. Every passenger should be vetted before boarding. No. I’ll stick to cycling and walking thanks, its kept me fit so far.
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Where I live the motor car s just about accepted but the giant iron birds that roar are enough to cause the frantic peal of church bells.
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