into this phenomenon a bit more and it's more common than you think.
You do wonder at what point during the 10+ hour flight at 38,000ft with very little oxygen and -50 degree temperatures they start to realise that this might not have been a particularly brilliant plan. :yikes:
http://www.airpor****ch.org.uk/2015/06/falling-objects/
EDIT: Oh, fúck this site's absurd censorship. The site is www.airportwátch.org.uk but obviously without the silly accent thingy.
It was out of Jomo Kenyatta, wasn't it? So he started quite high... within 10 minutes the aircaft would have been at 20,000 ft and our chap firmly asleep.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
No, I think it was out of a 747. :cooper:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
But yes, I think it was. Imagine the surprise of finding that on your lawn. Still, better your lawn than your attic or upstairs bedroom, I suppose.
The chap was wearing jeans and a t-shirt, so he'd clearly planned this meticulously. :hehe:
"The garden wall was covered in blood" :puke:Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Good excuse to get the Karcher pressure washer out, imoQuote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
Every cloud... and all thatQuote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
:cloud9: I'm almost tempted to give my patio a little spruce - even though it doesn't really need it.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
That'll need repointing.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
They're not still running 74s, surely? I flew into JK with Kenya a couple of years ago and it was a spanking new Dreamliner.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
The only way to prepare for such a journey really would be to wear a space suit and carry 8 hours oxygen :heh:
Someone's already hosed it down, apparently...Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/07...2054699212.jpg
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/07...2054717660.jpg
the beauty of astroturf, eh?
Apparently he landed around 1 meter from a chap that was sunbathing in his garden. Imagine enjoying the sunshine, slurping away on a fishbowl of G&T, thinking that all was right with the world and then.... BLAMO! Body.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
"His head was not in a good way"Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
No shít :sherlock:
I didn't actually look as it was purely for the sake of the gag, but it turns out you're right - a 787.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Anyone who puts astroturf on their lawn deserves to have a frozen black man land on it from 10,000 feet imo.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
If the garden was 'covered in blood' then he either defrosted on the way down or was never frozen through.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
It was the hottest day of the year, r. I reckon he'd have defrosted pretty sharpish.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
:-( I'm not a spotter, honest!Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
747s will all be gone within a few years, b. It's sad, really. There have been few airliners quite as elegant as the 'Queen of the Skies' as she is often dubbed. Now all airliners look the same. I can barely tell one form another.
When I started going to Heathrow as a child you'd see 747s, VC10s, 707s, DC10s, TriStars, Tridents, BAC 1-11s, Caravelles... all distinctive and individual. Now the aircraft, like the passengers, are dull, dull, dull. :-(
I quite like the windscreen of the A350.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
That is because you are a deviant, r.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
Have you seen the B748 in BOAC livery?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
https://www.google.com/search?q=747+...FY7MOQNTdnbsM:
Oddly enough, you only appreciate how elegant the 747 is now it's being replaced by much uglier, more utilitarian efforts. The A380 is an ugly lump of a thing and the Dreamliner just looks fat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
The BAC 1-11 was the first aeroplane I ever flew on. I seem to remember that the DC-10 went through an unfortunate period in the late 70s/early 80s when it kept crashing. Or am I imagining that?
Happily the A380 is now dead in the water. The Dreamliner at least has the saving grace of being lovely to fly on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I don't think the -10 had a bad record, but there were some high profile incidents. Sioux City was a famous one.
Yes, I saw a couple at Heathrow last week. They made me extremely nostalgic for a lost age of elegance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
I see Emirates are now flying the 380 from Dubai to Muscat. Seems a bit of an overkill.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Here you go. Knew I wasn't imagining it. I seem to remember it was quite a thing at the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/20/u...r-crashes.html
"...frozen black man..."
:hehe:
Blimey, 4 fatal incidents? That's not many, really. I'm inclined to think it was perception more than statistical reality.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I think it was that they all happened in a relatively short space of time. I just remember it because there were jokes about it and yes, the public perception seemed to be - probably quite unfairly - that the DC-10 was a deathtrap.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
The initials nearly cover it
My old man works maintaining bedsits for a chap (he has 120) and this sort of thing came up quite often. One muslim chap banged his head off the floor and died but it was a few weeks before forensics got at him. So they did their thing and sealed off the room. My old man had to get the room ready for another guest a week after that. Turned out forensics left a heap of his guts just laying on the floor. So you can imagine how much flies and maggots were about the room.... My Da just had to shovel up what was left off him and chuck it in the bin.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
The chap's brother was staying in another one of the bedsits. Colourful family. He got arrested for being in ISIS and sent down. When cleaning out his room it was just filled with pictures of said chap in the ISIS garb holding AK47's
Oh, dear. I hope this chap is wise enough to put lino down rather than carpeting?Quote:
Originally Posted by Arsenal Alcoholic Review
He did. Out of 120 rooms I had the misfortune of staying in the same room when visiting once....Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
He'd be dealing with a few dead bodies per year in that job. Tended to be bums, street drinkers and junkies and such staying in those bedsits.
Berni would feel at home there then :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Arsenal Alcoholic Review