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Pilot unscathed after horrific smash
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| 23 Nov 2011
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Posted on 11/23/2011 8:55:53 AM PST by smokingfrog
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Video at link.
To: smokingfrog
I think he’s gonna need some clean underwear after that.
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posted on
11/23/2011 8:58:41 AM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
Any landing you can walk away from.........
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posted on
11/23/2011 9:01:12 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Every child should have a meadow to play in..............)
To: smokingfrog
Holy Smokes! Whose bright idea was that?
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posted on
11/23/2011 9:01:12 AM PST
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: smokingfrog; windcliff; stylecouncilor
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posted on
11/23/2011 9:02:18 AM PST
by
onedoug
(lf)
To: smokingfrog
What is the “fistive” season? Sounds painful...
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posted on
11/23/2011 9:02:35 AM PST
by
TSgt
("Romney" means "rino cult" in Kenyan)
To: smokingfrog
I stopped using a helicopter to put up Christmas decorations a long time ago. Everything goes at eye level now.
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
11/23/2011 9:04:29 AM PST
by
cuban leaf
(Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
To: smokingfrog
I saw the video on the morning news. The pilot is lucky, that is for sure. In this case luck won out over stupidity on his part. In other than an emergency situation you don’t really want to try to take a chance on bringing in the copter so close to guide wires and other tall obstructions like this one did. It was a recipe for disaster.
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posted on
11/23/2011 9:04:36 AM PST
by
RJS1950
(The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
To: shaggy eel; DieHard the Hunter
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posted on
11/23/2011 9:05:34 AM PST
by
null and void
(This is day 1037 of America's vacation from reality.)
To: smokingfrog
If they had called it a Holiday tree instead of a Christmas tree....this would not have happened!
To: smokingfrog
spokeswoman Emma Peel Emma Peel! They have the Avengers involved. -- This must be big!
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posted on
11/23/2011 9:08:36 AM PST
by
Cowman
(How can the IRS seize property without a warrant if the 4th amendment still stands?)
To: TSgt
What is the fistive season? Sounds painful... That's the way people from New Zealand and Australia pronouce 'festive'. Try it in a sentence. It works.
"Crikey! Thit woz one harreefic cresh! Oy hape it won't put a dint in heez fistive season."
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posted on
11/23/2011 9:09:56 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Attacking Wall Street because you're jobless is like burning down Whole Foods because you're hungry.)
To: RJS1950
Given all the peopel nearby on the ground..it’s truly a miracle that several weren’t sliced and diced by the blades...
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posted on
11/23/2011 9:21:56 AM PST
by
ken5050
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To: Cowman
Brilliant!
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posted on
11/23/2011 9:22:13 AM PST
by
svcw
(God's Grace - thank you!)
To: smokingfrog
26 meters (about 85 feet) is about the same height as the tree in Rockefeller Center in New York City - and that is always put up using a crane. Wonder why they used a helicopter?
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posted on
11/23/2011 9:23:43 AM PST
by
free-in-nyc
(Freeping from the heart of the occupation)
To: ken5050
That is very true. If I had been there and seen the copter getting that close in I would have gotten the hell out of there as fast as possible.
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posted on
11/23/2011 9:25:06 AM PST
by
RJS1950
(The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
To: smokingfrog
The lucky one was that guy wearing the hardhat in the foreground. Surprised he didn’t get a blade to the body.
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posted on
11/23/2011 9:25:22 AM PST
by
VeniVidiVici
("Si, se gimme!")
To: smokingfrog
WOW. The pilot almost came out of the door
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posted on
11/23/2011 9:26:06 AM PST
by
paul51
(11 September 2001 - Never forget)
To: TSgt
“What is the fistive season? Sounds painful...”
Very. However, the pilot was also rushed to hospital just to be chicked over, which may have been a lot more fun.
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posted on
11/23/2011 9:30:04 AM PST
by
Hunton Peck
(See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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