China mourns death of engineer of Liaoning aircraft(after watching landing,51 yr old had hrt attack)

Associated Press via South China Morning Post ^ | Monday, 26 November, 2012, 11:33am

[DeaconBenjamin]

China's government is mourning a key engineer behind its aircraft carrier programme who died of a heart attack after witnessing the first landing of a plane on the ship.

[hinckley buzzard]

Hm. Bad omen...

[JRandomFreeper]

Bad omen...

For whom? ;)

/johnny

[USNBandit]

Beijing flu?

[AlexW]

“Shenyang Aircraft head dies in China’s first carrier landing”
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Every day I become more and more appalled at the way news headlines are written.

[iowamark]

“Suspected heart attack” must be code for “You have failed the Politburo!”

[HiTech RedNeck]

He was so impressed with them he keeled over and died.

[HiTech RedNeck]

He allowed himself a capitalistic thought, and then was smitten by communist conscience and croaked.

[21twelve]

“China’s government is mourning a key engineer behind its aircraft carrier programme who died of a heart attack after witnessing the first landing of a plane on the ship.”

I’m glad that he had least got to see it land (or so they say). I imagine failure would have been the end of his career and the end of his nice life as he knew it. He probably had a fleeting moment of “Yippie - my life will be okay....”

[Robe]

I dam near had a heart attack every time I ever landed on one of those gyrating devils

[exit82]

Guess the pattern was full—shouldn’t have done the fly-by.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Thrilled to death.

[exit82]

Guess the pattern was full—shouldn’t have done the fly-by.

[Teacher317]

In practice, China is one of the more capitalistic nations around. They just can’t call it that, lest they fail to “save face” for being so anti-capitalist for so long.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Yeah, I know. So that wasn't one of the more bon of my mots.

[Slings and Arrows]

“This is the happiest day of my life!” *thud*

[TigersEye]

Karma!

[End Times Sentinel]

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[bunkerhill7]

Confucius say man who watch flatop landing flatline.

[Sam Cree]

Chinese food is mostly fried, isn’t it? In a wok, but still fried.