Hey, it could have been worse

[ChadTower]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/08/plane.body.ap/index.html

[DaveMMR]

Those legs fell litally less than a mile away from me (I live and work in the Bellerose/Floral Park, NY area).  Man that would have freaked me out.

Planes are actually always lowing their landing gear right over my general area so now I'm going to be paranoid over what's going to be falling out of those things. 

[ChadTower]

Seriously... did you see the damage to the garage where it hit?  The thing still had the spine and hip attached!

She should have saved it, went to Wendy's, and put it in her chili.  That is so much worse than a finger.

[missioncontrol]

She should have saved it, went to Wendy's, and put it in her chili. That is so much worse than a finger.

People....The airplanes are now made of people...

[missioncontrol]

Well I do have a few questions...

There have been cases of stowaways being crushed by the mechanism in aircraft wheel wells and perishing from the extreme cold at high altitude.

Who in their right mind would try to stowaway in the landing gear?

Are there people who do this and survive?

Do they tell their buddies that it's safe and they do it all the time?

[ChadTower]

People who are that desperate to flee a bad situation.  This plane was from South Africa. 

It's the same desperation that leads people to build rafts out of old cars and try to float them across hundreds of miles of Atlantac Ocean, battling sharks, to get from Cuba to Florida.

[Thenasty]

Hey Spike, stop playing with bone and get over...Come on boy, leave that bone alone and come get your suffer...

[GGKoul]

Am I the only one to find her quote disturbing??


"But I am very glad that I live where I do," she said, "so I don't have to run for my life like this man probably was doing."

[fredster]

I think she meant that in a nice way.

Even if the guy could have survived the landing gear going up, I think he would have had a problem with the oxygen level and the temperature at the altitude of that plane don't you think?

I'm sure he thought it was a good idea at the time.

[JackTucky]

Pretty cold up there too, I think.

Arnokd Schwarzenegger did it in Commando.

Art

[danny_galaga]

Well I do have a few questions...

There have been cases of stowaways being crushed by the mechanism in aircraft wheel wells and perishing from the extreme cold at high altitude.

Who in their right mind would try to stowaway in the landing gear?

Are there people who do this and survive?

Do they tell their buddies that it's safe and they do it all the time?

there is a guy who has lived in darwin most of his life who was somewhat luckier. he stowed away in the wheel well of a dc3 from papua new guinea when he was a kid. when they found him in darwin a local family adopted him. ok, it would have flown somewhat lower (about 20000 feet) and the trip is shorter than africa to the US but he was still quite lucky. from memory he lost a toe or something to frostbite, but he managed not to get mangled in the undercarriage.

[DrewKaree]

Am I the only one to find her quote disturbing??


"But I am very glad that I live where I do," she said, "so I don't have to run for my life like this man probably was doing."

Well he isn't going to be running ANYWHERE too fast anymore with a missing leg with the hip and spine attached.  That'll put a damper on ANYONE'S ability to skedaddle!














Is tere a reason you're reading far too much into her comments?