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Plane Crash In The Middle Of Intersection

iranintoavan

iranintoavan

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Half a mile away from my place, a plane crashed in the middle of a major intersection. It was insane, thousands of college students were out to see it! Miraculously, the pilot was alright and only broke his leg.

http://view.break.com/449599
 
iranintoavan said:
...thousands of college students were out to see it!
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That's pretty pathetic. So there's really so little to do in your town that they have to stand there and stare at a plane lying in the middle of the road? I guess I've just never been of the "let's stand and stare at the accident" mentality...
 
Looks like a forced landing, which is not necessarily the same thing as a "crash."

Gear up though, that's odd.
 
IJ Reilly said:
Looks like a forced landing, which is not necessarily the same thing as a "crash."

Gear up though, that's odd.
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Well, it does look that it's nose-in. Maybe they attempted a gear-up (belly) landing on the street and the tail went up...
 
JDR said:
Well, it does look that it's nose-in. Maybe they attempted a gear-up (belly) landing on the street and the tail went up...
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That'd be my guess. Prop strike into asphalt, or hit a car, and whoopsie-daisy. It hasn't turned up in the NTSB accident database yet.
 
Stampyhead said:
That's pretty pathetic. So there's really so little to do in your town that they have to stand there and stare at a plane lying in the middle of the road? I guess I've just never been of the "let's stand and stare at the accident" mentality...
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An airplane crashes onto a road, and you think it's pathetic that people stand and watch? Are you human?

What would you do, walk past it and pretend not to see it? Act cool?
 
Abstract said:
An airplane crashes onto a road, and you think it's pathetic that people stand and watch? Are you human?

What would you do, walk past it and pretend not to see it? Act cool?
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Once the plane has already crashed, there's not much to see. It does seem odd to me that thousands of students are wandering around the scene after the fact. I lost interest in the video about 15 seconds in.
 
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