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PICTURED: Instagram stars and models on their private plane to Las Vegas moments before it...
Daily Mail ^

Posted on 04/11/2018 10:35:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin

FULL HEADLINE: "PICTURED: Instagram stars and models on their private plane to Las Vegas moments before it crashed onto golf course killing all six on board"

Four of the six people who died when their private plane crashed during a flight from Arizona to Las Vegas on Monday have been identified as Instagram stars, models and nightclub promoters.

Models Mariah Coogan, 23, and Helena Lagos, 22, nightlife promoter Anand 'Happy' Patel, 26, and nightclub host and aspiring pilot James Pedroza, 28, were all on board the Piper PA-24 Comanche when it crashed into a golf course moments after taking off at around 9pm.

They spent the weekend at the Phoenix Lights Festival and were on their way back to Las Vegas.  

Before they took off from Scottsdale Airport, Coogan shared videos from the plane on her Instagram story.  She excitedly filmed herself in her seat and spun the camera round to show Patel who she affectionately called by his nickname Happy.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: arizona; crash; faa; golfcourse; happypatel; instagram; lanecrash; mariahcoogan; mariahsunshinecoogan; ntsb; plane; planecrash; scottsdale; vegas
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To: Tax-chick
An “Instagram star” is a person who posts pictures of (usually) herself on Instagram. Many people look at the pictures, often because (usually) she is nearly naked. She receives a cut of the revenue for ads that run on her Instagram account.

Amazing! I read somewhere that there is something about women's psyche/operating system that makes them like to pose nude. Google images nude tends to validate that theory.

81 posted on 04/12/2018 6:50:58 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (...the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light...)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

“Like, seriously? I can’t believe I’m gonna die right now. Seriously? I just can’t”.


82 posted on 04/12/2018 7:17:54 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Idiocracy is here, and it votes democrat.)
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To: dfwgator
"...I can only imagine how that person would have felt if it were their daughter on that flight. ..."

I sincerely hope my daughter never becomes an Instagram-posting, nightclub-hopping, vacuous wastrel with chola painted on eyebrows.

If she does I have failed as a parent.

83 posted on 04/12/2018 7:22:18 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Idiocracy is here, and it votes democrat.)
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To: T-Bone Texan

I had to deal with that when my daughter got a tattoo behind my back. But sometimes what are you going to do?


84 posted on 04/12/2018 7:24:06 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: DungeonMaster

There was probably some natural selection benefit, at least for those in prime reproductive years. Another of those ancient instincts that has outlived its usefulness to the species ...


85 posted on 04/12/2018 7:38:36 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I have the easiest life in the history of the world.)
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To: dfwgator

Well, all you can do is try, but I sense a lot of parents don’t even do that.


86 posted on 04/12/2018 7:52:34 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Idiocracy is here, and it votes democrat.)
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To: Tax-chick
There was probably some natural selection benefit, at least for those in prime reproductive years. Another of those ancient instincts that has outlived its usefulness to the species ...

Well, that would be an evolutionary perspective but I don't believe in evolution.

87 posted on 04/12/2018 8:00:19 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (...the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light...)
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To: Bobalu
</i>Still, I'd prefer to have that second engine for a better chance.</I>

Statistics are against you. The fatality rate is much higher
in light twins than in singles.

88 posted on 04/12/2018 8:02:39 AM PDT by Dan(9698)
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To: DungeonMaster

Even if you don’t believe in evolution as a grand theory, it is clear to the naked eye that natural selection has operated on human beings for some thousands of years. That is the most reasonable way to explain how we got from the eight survivors of the Flood to the very wide array of humanity we now find.


89 posted on 04/12/2018 8:11:21 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I have the easiest life in the history of the world.)
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To: BenLurkin

Obviously didn’t turn off their cellphones and hand-held devices as instructed by the flight attendant. Interfered with the aircraft controls. Boom.


90 posted on 04/12/2018 8:25:03 AM PDT by moovova
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To: T-Bone Texan

LOL...I shouldn’t laugh but I cannot stand this selfie community, it bodes right in with leftist indoctrination “You are elitist and better than everyone else and people cannot get enough of your God like appearance and utopian lifestyle. You’re just like Hillary and Obama!”


91 posted on 04/12/2018 8:44:04 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Vox populi, vox dei)
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To: Tax-chick
Even if you don’t believe in evolution as a grand theory, it is clear to the naked eye that natural selection has operated on human beings for some thousands of years. That is the most reasonable way to explain how we got from the eight survivors of the Flood to the very wide array of humanity we now find.

I guess I think of natural selection as a survival of the fittest mechanism. Any modification in a species that can't survive doesn't.

The diversity seen in mankind was all built into the genetics of Adam.

92 posted on 04/12/2018 8:47:01 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (...the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light...)
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To: DungeonMaster
The diversity seen in mankind was all built into the genetics of Adam.

I agree mostly: some characteristics seem to be the product of mutation. Clearly, however, different aspects of the total available genome have come to be expressed based on their survival utility in different environments.

We can theorize that a female who was willing to signal her reproductive availability by taking her clothes off was more likely to pass on her genes than one who was not.

Of course, the fact that we can theorize it does prove it is true.

93 posted on 04/12/2018 8:57:24 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I have the easiest life in the history of the world.)
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To: Tax-chick
We can theorize that a female who was willing to signal her reproductive availability by taking her clothes off was more likely to pass on her genes than one who was not.

And the PoundMeToo movement is about enlisting government as a screener, to guarantee that only qualified candidates respond to the advertisement. :)

I live pretty close to the airport. That plane couldn't have been in the air for more than 15 seconds if that. Had they been taking off north-to-south, as they often do, it would have gone right into a residential neighborhood.

94 posted on 04/12/2018 9:17:39 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Tax-chick

“Does not prove”


95 posted on 04/12/2018 9:19:25 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I have the easiest life in the history of the world.)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

I’m glad they missed the houses.

I mentioned above that, assuming there’s any validity to the point at all, the utility has expired. The sort of women who take their clothes off on Instagram are not the kind to have children who grow up healthy and productive.


96 posted on 04/12/2018 9:21:50 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I have the easiest life in the history of the world.)
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To: Tax-chick

I’m sure you’re right about the “atrocities”, but that “trout pout” look is everywhere.


97 posted on 04/12/2018 9:21:59 AM PDT by Amberdawn (If Leftists Didn't Live By Double Standards, They'd Have No Standards At All.)
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To: Amberdawn

Yes, that’s true, and it looks exceptionally stupid. We may theorize that a male viewer might find it desirable because it gives the impression that the young woman is stupid enough to have sex with him even though he has no genetic or socioeconomic advantages.


98 posted on 04/12/2018 9:24:49 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I have the easiest life in the history of the world.)
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To: Obadiah
That’s what I think. With 6 people and probably max fuel, my guess is that the plane was overloaded or right at its load capacity leaving almost no margin of error for rate of climb. Barring mechanical failure, that it crashed so soon after takeoff seems to provide evidence of this.


And if that is the case, I bet the Center of Gravity (CG) was aft of the safe area too, making it more likely to stall.

The weather that night was calm and the Density Altitude was a bit under 3000 ft. Looks like weather should not have been a factor.

99 posted on 04/12/2018 9:26:03 AM PDT by az_gila
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To: wardaddy

Girls + inexperienced young male pilot = potential big problems. RIP to them all.


100 posted on 04/12/2018 9:31:09 AM PDT by lodi90
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