"Taiwanese rescuers used a massive crane to hoist the ATR 72-600 propjet from the shallow river after survivors were brought to safety on rubber rafts or scrambled to the river bank on their own. Twenty people remained missing hours after the crash."
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
"Dramatic video shows Taiwan plane crash that killed 23"
"At least 23 people died but 15 survived a spectacular crash caught on video of a TransAsia Airways flight that clipped its wing on a bridge after takeoff from the Taiwanese capital Taipei and crashed into a nearby river."
"Taiwanese rescuers used a massive crane to hoist the ATR 72-600 propjet from the shallow river after survivors were brought to safety on rubber rafts or scrambled to the river bank on their own. Twenty people remained missing hours after the crash."
"Taiwanese rescuers used a massive crane to hoist the ATR 72-600 propjet from the shallow river after survivors were brought to safety on rubber rafts or scrambled to the river bank on their own. Twenty people remained missing hours after the crash."
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You'd think that everyone would be dead.
I'm interested that so many people have cameras mounted in their cars.
and holy crap that's scary.
I wanted to put a dashcam in my truck but my wife nyeted that.
Asians fly like they drive. Badly.
April Apple said...
I'm interested that so many people have cameras mounted in their cars.
and holy crap that's scary.
April, in many countries dash cams are there for insurance purposes.
I guess the pilot was trying to land in the water a la Sullenberger.
Below minimum controllable airspeed. They ran out of rudder.
Yes, hardin. and also ailerons. I'd guess there is a mechanical problem setting this up. Maybe fresh out of maintenance, with something very wrong.
Ailerons won't help. The wing is stalled.
One engine flamed out, and the problem is that you need more power from the other engine to keep flying, but that turns the airplane more powerfully, against which you have only opposite rudder to compensate.
If you're below minimum controllable airspeed, you don't have enough rudder to keep it level. No action you can take will fix it, short of giving up altitude for speed, which isn't an option on takeoff.
Lesson, don't pull it off the runway without that speed necessary to control it if one engine quits.
That is THE hairiest plane crash footage ever taken in history.
I played it several times from intense macabre interest.
The plane almost made it, its wing too long by a foot or so, the plane rotated so that the wing becomes like a flag pole that busts apart by the concrete structures lining the road and by the road itself. The wing only barely hit it, had it been just a little bit higher, had it rotated just a little bit less, had the wing been just a little bit shorter then it would would have sailed right by and the video still be dramatic but what happens instead is the wing explodes right at the car passenger's window, right in front of it, the car drives through the debris made by the wing disintegrating right in front of it.
It's the sort of shot a director lives for. And if the people in the car didn't have to change their shorts after surviving that then they are not human.
And this brings me to a profound insight that hit my head, pow, like a ton of dynamite that exploded.
Relating to atheism and why discussions seem so empty. And relating to plants that come up through the dirt, have their days in the sun, then shrivel and perish. And relating to humans being life forms much like plants. Relating to humans appraising their situation as lifeform with clear cycles, beginning and ending.
All of that relating to humans sensing very early there is more to themselves than that. As boys anyway, how idiotically we regard our bodies, experimenting with limitations, testing physics, jumping off things expecting no damage, nor pain, learning about all that the hard way and repeatedly to sort our place in the physical world, behind all that we're evaluating and sensing there is more to ourselves than mere mechanics. We are more than the plants, we sense and acknowledge our out spirit.
But an atheist does not.
Wut up widat? That's why discussions with you are empty. You (the atheist) start out by saying, "As an atheist..." and you announce yourself empty shell. I hear, "As a slab of meat with a beating heart presently and a temporary existence, flash-existence if you like..." Let's not bother even talking then. Life is way too short to be discussing existence with a shell empty of spirit. You are telling me you have no soul and you acknowledge me but not my soul.
We are reduced to the material world and all contained therein. There is enough in the material universe to keep you fascinated forever. In fact, there is more in physical world than you can take in. So much in the physical world you rely on experts to tell you all they uncover. So much you cannot say right off which complex models actually work and which models cannot be duplicated. There is no need for the metaphysics that is remnant sciences, astrology, alchemy and such, the stepping stones to solid modern sciences.
Contrasted with metaphysics, dreams, visualizations, premonitions, coincidental thoughts, psychic events and the like all being stepping stones to real spirituality.
Poor dears reject their own spirit.
Who then, am I talking to? Your distinct personality is a thing. Where does it reside? Do you reject that too? Are you are just one of a type and not a soul unique to God?
That is an awesomely pinched view of the universe. Just admit it, So dazzled by science, and it is dazzling, nothing else is possible. You choose not to see anything beyond science, a science so great it needs its own explainers, its own priestly class, its intermediary because science is too vast for you to handle. As such, nothing exists beyond that. Therefore you conclude there is no soul. Nothing that you can detect anyway.
You reveal a deep poverty by accepting the likes of Neil deGrasse Tyson as material world universe explainer.
That's what it get gets down to, here is your epiphany, they do not recognize their own soul nor yours and as such are themselves empty shells imagining themselves filled and packed full with interpreted science, and it is all for naught because in an instant everybody is dead.
Meth - that makes sense. I suppose it is just a matter of time before it catches on here.
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