Hit by buses, cars and lorries - Yes. Hit by a plane - No!

Mr Sworld
Mr Sworld Posts: 703
edited July 2009 in Commuting chat
Now how do you keep an eye out for this pulling out in front of you?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/8150639.stm

Mike

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  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    Look left, look right, look up!!
    The guys at Lockerbie and Kegworth are savvy to it now.
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  • _Brun_
    _Brun_ Posts: 1,740
    "A double-decker sports plane"

    Those A380 pilots are getting cocky.
  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    When I worked at British Midland I was lucky enough to get a lift across the main runway at Heathrow. 8)

    You have to sit at traffic lights (I kid you not!) and wait for the gap between aircraft then drive like buggery across the tarmac. It's one hell of a sight to drive across the main runway at the busiest airport in the world and look directly AT 6 flaming HUGE aircraft all in a line and all heading straight at you! :shock: (and they were the only ones I could see)

    Then there was that time I walked into a 737 I didn't notice. Don't ask... very embarrassing. :oops:
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    A 'double decker' sports plane with torn off 'lower frame'? What sort of ignorant gimps are the BBC employing to write these days? If anyone wants a job, it looks like writing the correct address on the app form would probably be enough!
    Faster than a tent.......
  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Rolf F wrote:
    A 'double decker' sports plane with torn off 'lower frame'? What sort of ignorant gimps are the BBC employing to write these days? If anyone wants a job, it looks like writing the correct address on the app form would probably be enough!

    Well as the BBC are completely in the pay of the Labour Party it would seem the only skill you need is the ability to sell out your principals....

    I'm sorry I got all bitter and political there.
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  • el_presidente
    el_presidente Posts: 1,963
    some joker has probably just done a literal transation from the german. Surely even a 5 yo knows it's a biplane
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    Rolf F wrote:
    A 'double decker' sports plane with torn off 'lower frame'? What sort of ignorant gimps are the BBC employing to write these days? If anyone wants a job, it looks like writing the correct address on the app form would probably be enough!

    Well as the BBC are completely in the pay of the Labour Party it would seem the only skill you need is the ability to sell out your principals....

    I'm sorry I got all bitter and political there.

    Are you going to apologise for being completely wrong too? (also since the tory principles are all-consuming greed, hatred and self-interest I wouldn't get too cocky about that)
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  • Fireblade96
    Fireblade96 Posts: 1,123
    I used to live in Seattle, and I'd go kayaking on Lake Union - a convenient downtown lake :-)

    However, as well as the normal motorboat/saliboat traffic, Lake Union was also used by a local seaplane company. So, you're out in a kayak, you see a gap to paddle across when there's no other vessels in the way......and then this drops out of the sky
    istockphoto_6868952-seaplane-landing-on-lake-union-in-seattle.jpg

    :shock:
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    No gold stars for the beeb. It's not even a german plane. Bloody lucky nobody was seriously hurt, in the plane/car or on the path.
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  • stuaff
    stuaff Posts: 1,736
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    No gold stars for the beeb. It's not even a german plane. Bloody lucky nobody was seriously hurt, in the plane/car or on the path.
    I think they meant the incident happened in Germany ;)
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    StuAff wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    No gold stars for the beeb. It's not even a german plane. Bloody lucky nobody was seriously hurt, in the plane/car or on the path.
    I think they meant the incident happened in Germany ;)

    May well have done, but it's still an american plane! :)
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    biondino wrote:
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    Rolf F wrote:
    A 'double decker' sports plane with torn off 'lower frame'? What sort of ignorant gimps are the BBC employing to write these days? If anyone wants a job, it looks like writing the correct address on the app form would probably be enough!

    Well as the BBC are completely in the pay of the Labour Party it would seem the only skill you need is the ability to sell out your principals....

    I'm sorry I got all bitter and political there.

    Are you going to apologise for being completely wrong too? (also since the tory principles are all-consuming greed, hatred and self-interest I wouldn't get too cocky about that)

    Apologise? No.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sttc3FAPTkc

    I'll let the facts prove themselves.....
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    I'm not sure hyper-selective right-wing propaganda "proves" anything, Kieran :)
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  • GraemeT
    GraemeT Posts: 155
    Interesting how they concentrate on the plane hitting a car. I was more worried about the cyclists on the path :shock:
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    I guess the plane didn't hit any cyclists!
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  • _Brun_
    _Brun_ Posts: 1,740
    biondino wrote:
    I guess the plane didn't hit any cyclists!
    That would never happen. The cyclists would always hit the plane.
  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    One hell of left hook if it did!
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