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Goodyear Blimp Just Crashed
Self | 12/3/2003 | Self

Posted on 12/03/2003 11:04:14 PM PST by EUPHORIC

Reporting on local news is that the Goodyear Blimp just crashed after it got away from the ground crew in a wind gust. Cameraman hurt but not life threatening and the pilot is ok.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: California; Unclassified; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: aircraft; aircrash; goodyearblimp; lighterthenair; ohthehumanity; starjones
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To: EUPHORIC; dighton; hellinahandcart; 2sheep; mhking
No photos posted on Yahoo yet. CNN had come interesting video a couple of hours ago. I take it this blimp is no longer having a very goodyear.

Goodyear blimp crashes; one minor injury

Thursday, December 4, 2003 Posted: 3:53 AM EST (0853 GMT)


The nose of the blimp was crumpled in the crash.

The Goodyear Blimp crashed while trying to land at its base airport in Carson, California. One person was taken to a hospital with minor injuries (December 4)

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- A Goodyear blimp crashed Wednesday night while trying to land at its base airport south of Los Angeles, a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department spokesman said.

The blimp pilot and a cameraman were the only occupants on the aircraft when it drifted into a nearby plant nursery and landed nose-first shortly before 10 p.m. (1 a.m. ET) in Carson, about 17 miles south of Los Angeles.

Video of the scene showed the blimp's nose firmly implanted into the ground, with a semi truck underneath. The rest of the aircraft was tilted at about a 45-degree angle into the air. The cabin of the blimp was not damaged, and most of the inflated part was largely intact.

The cameraman was transported to a nearby hospital complaining of minor knee pain, authorities said.

Goodyear has a fleet of three helium-filled blimps based in California, Florida and Ohio.

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http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/12/04/blimp.crash/index.html

I think they said it was named the Eagle. It looks more like a turkey.

41 posted on 12/04/2003 2:13:02 AM PST by Thinkin' Gal
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To: Porterville
ROFL, that's a good one!
42 posted on 12/04/2003 2:16:48 AM PST by Fledermaus (Fascists, Totalitarians, Baathists, Communists, Socialists, Democrats - what's the difference?)
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To: thesummerwind
Was Snoopy o.k.? Yea, he wasn't aboard. It so happens he was at the vet getting neutered.
43 posted on 12/04/2003 5:32:29 AM PST by oyez
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To: Porterville
Man, I tell you he's everywhere.
44 posted on 12/04/2003 7:24:21 AM PST by dfwgator (Are you blind with an IQ under 50? Then you too can be an ACC football referee.)
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To: dfwgator
It's the Goodrich Blimp.

LOL!!! I'm old enough to remember the commercials.

Hb

45 posted on 12/04/2003 7:37:16 AM PST by Hoverbug
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To: EUPHORIC
There is more than one Goodyear blimp. 3 or 4 if I recall.
46 posted on 12/04/2003 7:47:54 AM PST by xp38
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To: EUPHORIC

47 posted on 12/04/2003 7:49:13 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
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To: ETERNAL WARMING
Crashed into a nursery.

Vegetable or chaotic?

48 posted on 12/04/2003 7:53:23 AM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: EUPHORIC
NY Times headline: "Good Year Blimp Crashes, Women, Homeless, and Children most effected!"
49 posted on 12/04/2003 7:58:47 AM PST by Lockbar
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