"Holy Fucking Shit I Was Just In A Plane Crash"

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/twitter-holy-fucking-shit-i-was-just-in-denver-plane-crash

by astrec • 18 years ago

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mseebach2• 18 years ago

Interesting account. But is this what passes for a miraculous escape these days?

brandnewlow2• 18 years ago

that's what counts for "it's a miracle no one was killed" these days, I'd say.

mseebach2• 18 years ago

My point exactly - sorry to sound so callous.

delano• 18 years ago

This isn't an action movie.

mcargian• 18 years ago

hmmm...plane off runway, down embankment, loses an engine, cracked fuselage, large fire engulfs entire right side of fuselage partially melting over head bins, making some exits on the right side unusable...yeah I think this qualifies. I'm not sure if miraculous is the right word, but I am amazed how many "news" stations are passing this off as nothing.

indiejade2• 18 years ago

It's the Twitter Effect, again. They're probably upset that citizens are scooping them on "their" news story.

mhartl2• 18 years ago

I can't believe they actually used the slides. I kinda figured those were mostly for show.

spolsky• 18 years ago

How else would you get down without stairs?

They deploy automatically when you open the doors unless you specifically disarm them.

mhartl2• 18 years ago

Well, yeah, but how else (apart from the "seat flotation devices") would you float except the life vests? And yet, the life vests are mainly for show. As a letter in the 2006 Economist put it:

  SIR – The bright-yellow lifejackets are not intended to
  act as flotation devices. They are there to make it easier
  for the recovery services to spot the bodies strewn across 
  rough terrain. (I was once asked to put on a life-jacket 
  over central Germany, some 300 miles from the sea.) And the 
  advice to adopt a head-down fetal position in the event of 
  a crash landing does nothing to preserve life, given that 
  the stall speed of a modern airliner means it will connect 
  with the ground at terminal velocity. However, the position 
  does tend to preserve dental data, useful for identifying 
  dilapidated corpses.

  Roger Willis
  Peel, Isle of Man

I always thought the number of flights where you needed to get down without stairs was basically nil; turns out I was wrong.

mihasya• 18 years ago

Dude needs a blog. Microblogging seems like the wrong medium to tell a full on story...

yan• 18 years ago

I doubt he would have had time to sit down and write a full-fledged blog post on what was going on in a plane crash, as it was happening.

pmorici2• 18 years ago

So, it would be ironic if, after the investigation, they determine that some guy who was Twittering during take off interfered with the planes systems and caused the crash.

sah• 18 years ago

I assume that if cell phones were even a little likely to cause plane crashes, passengers wouldn't be allowed to carry them on planes at all.

pmorici2• 18 years ago

The very slim possibility of interference is one of the main reasons they disallow them during take off and landing, since that is the most critical part of the flight, the other reason is passenger distraction, they want people paying attention.

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2001/02/41273

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones_on_aircraft#Elect...

The reason it is unlikely is because the systems are shielded but you could for see a situation where shoddy maintenance leads to the degradation or removal of what ever is shielding the instrument.

"Holy Fucking Shit I Was Just In A Plane Crash"

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