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rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22528 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
That blancolirio YT video makes painful watching :-( She may not have been the brightest ever, but she was also the victim of a "flight instructor" who wasn't the greatest ever. I may have missed it, but: Did she actually read the manual for the auto pilot and understand its limitations? Did she go go through the auto pilot's controls on the ground with someone who knew how it worked? Why did she choose her (non-pilot) father to be her "instructor"? Allegedly 400 hours and she still didn't understand the relationship between power and attitude - that's often covered in one of those "trial lessons", and almost certainly in the first few hours..... Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36782 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
I don't know what he was thinking and no report if the pizzas survived. Dashcam captures shocking crash between car and pizza delivery scooter. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36782 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
You really have to wonder how some people get a licence to drive heavy vehicles when they do things like this. Shocking Video Shows Moment Cargo Train Crashes Into Semi-Truck. Crikey, if you don't have room to clear the tracks you wait until there is before crossing those tracks. |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3343 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
Lock him up for life without parole, let him rot in his prison cell with a life sized picture of the deceased painted on the wall for him to see every day he remains on this earth. Dallas fatal crash sent pedestrian through windshield. Driver continued for miles, cops say A pedestrian who was hit by a car Saturday night in Dallas crashed through its windshield — ending up in the passenger seat — as the driver continued his journey until reaching a Jack in the Box parking lot in White Settlement. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13854 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
A good example of why it's not a good idea to drive through flood waters- the road may no longer even be there... Grant Darwin NT |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36782 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
How unbelievably stupid can people get? :-O Video shows 5 teens crushed in Colorado SUV rollover during stunt attempt. |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3343 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
How can you screw up something so simple? 6-year-old flying alone was put on wrong flight A six-year-old boy was flown hundreds of miles away from his family after Spirit Airlines put him on the wrong flight. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36782 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Speeding I doubt, but wayward certainly as the SUV came down the straight and just failed to turn with the bend. Did the driver fall asleep or were they just playing with their phone at the time? Police don't know as yet, but I bet the driver of it got their attention back on the road after hitting the grass and gravel on the wrong side of it real quick. A Queensland family of five is lucky to be alive after a speeding car crossed into their lane from the opposite direction. |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 21282 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
Normally I don’t read this thread but that DUI DRIVER should rot in a prison cell for life without possibility of parole. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36782 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Some people can be very lucky. Fishermen spotted something shiny near a creek. It was the first step toward a ‘miracle’. The two men had gone out the day after Christmas, scouting for fishing holes at a creek in northwest Indiana, when something shiny in the distance caught their attention. |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19399 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Is there an international competition to see who can get the most unlikely object stuck, or destroyed, under a bridge. If so, then I assume this is India's entry |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3343 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
If not #1 most obscure "stuck" object, it's certainly flying pretty high on the list you can say. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36782 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
It only takes 1 fool behind the wheel of a truck to cause death and chaos. :-( Two train drivers have died in a truck-train collision on the SA-NSW border. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13854 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
An update on that story. The 75-year-old truck driver from Queensland was taken to the Broken Hill Hospital and treated for minor injuries.Truck driver charged over crash that killed two SA train workers near NSW border As the photos show, that area is prey flat, and the rail line is raised up above much of the surrounding area (as is the road to a lesser extent) to avoid flooding when it does (very occasionally) get wet. I can only assume the driver didn't want to lose time waiting for the train to pass so decided he could race it across the crossing before it arrived. Unfortunately, he was wrong. Grant Darwin NT |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36782 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Seeing as the truck driver is 75yrs old I wonder how his eyesight is as you can't miss a train coming there from any direction (and that crossing looks a lot better now than the last time I was out there). |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21212 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
And that concertina pattern of the derailed wagons is yet another typical/characteristic example of the too-old uncoordinated dumb pneumatic/vacuum braking systems used, being far too slow to respond for safe emergency braking for those long trains... When will the train companies be forced into going with the much faster acting electronic braking controls to more safely run such long trains? When will the drivers get adequate protection?? All in our dumb greedy world, Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36782 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
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Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13854 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
This year is not off to a good start. A Japan Airlines plane has burst into flames as it landed on the runway at Tokyo's Haneda Airport.Japan Airlines plane erupts into flames as it lands at Tokyo's Haneda Airport Edit- apparently everyone evacuated- plane is a total loss. Grant Darwin NT |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19399 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Live coverage from sky news, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id41V7c5O04 They say that one person, captain is safe, and of the other 6 persons have been found but no news of their fate, the Coastguard plane is a Bombardier dash 8, |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24911 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
The crew on flight 516 deserves the highest praise for evacuating all passengers & themselves without any fatalities from a burning aircraft. |
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