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Caught On Tape: The Moment 58 People Aboard A Taiwanese Plane Thought It Was All Over

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Earlier this evening, shortly after take-off from the Taiwanese capital of Taipei, a commercial aircraft with 58 people on board clipped a bridge and crashed into a river. As AP reports, the death count is either 2 (aviation authority) or 3 (Central News Agency) which is simply stunning considering the following unbelievable clip...

 

 

 

As AP reports,

Taiwan's aviation authority say at least two people have been killed when a commercial flight with 58 people aboard clipped a bridge shortly after takeoff and crashed into a river in the island's capital of Taipei.

 

Aviation authority director Lin Chi-ming told a news conference that two people were killed. The country's Central News Agency said three people were killed.

 

Taiwanese media posted pictures of the plane in the water several dozen meters (yards) from the shore in the Keelung River.

 

CNA said the flight from Taipei to the outlying island of Kinmen lost contact with flight controllers at 10:55 a.m. and the fuselage landed in the Keelung River near the city's downtown Sungshan airport.

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The rescue is still underway...

 

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Wed, 02/04/2015 - 01:31 | 5742087 ACP
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Looks like a metaphor to me.

Aren't disasters supposed to come in 3's? This is the 4th for a Southeast Asian airline.

 

What does that mean? It's different this time??

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 01:47 | 5742132 williambanzai7
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Technically speaking Taiwan is considered North East Asia. It is also not an ASEAN country.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 03:03 | 5742205 TruxtonSpangler
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Next on ZH: The top 23 reasons you should not walk to work!

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 03:19 | 5742224 Skateboarder
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We Tu Lo.

If I was in that car, the feeling would be the equivalent scariness of kickflipping El Toro.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 07:07 | 5742441 crazytechnician
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The rest will die from the water pollution.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 09:02 | 5742568 SafelyGraze
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the wings are supposed to have cut through the pavement, leaving their outline

 

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 09:28 | 5742601 RaceToTheBottom
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Asian Sullenberger.

They must be Exceptional too!!!!!

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 10:01 | 5742715 Zirpedge
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Captain Surry Surrenburger still getting work I see.

I apologize for the pronunciation humor in advance, we are in a post "interview" world.

Truthers, how many light posts did you see shorn off? I think it was a fiberglass boat painted to look like a plane shot off with a trebuchet.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 10:15 | 5742754 BeaverCream
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I wonder if Dick Cheney ordered a stand down at Norad for this too

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 10:20 | 5742774 2500saturdays
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wreckage is the tell there was a plane crash.

PA not so much. It 'vaporized',  it 'corzined',  titanium alloy does that when it goes really really fast.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 16:53 | 5744408 A Nanny Moose
Wed, 02/04/2015 - 11:05 | 5742910 BeaverCream
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I've never heard anyone say the wings should have cut through the 5 sided building.  The fact that skin from the wing is wrapped around the guard rail on the edge of this freeway is interesting.  The 5 sided building had nothing where wings should be, not even a scratch, windows in tact.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 16:58 | 5744437 A Nanny Moose
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The emergency vehilcles will have run them over already.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 07:34 | 5742465 eclectic syncretist
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That reminds me of the time I fell down the stairs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGmMO3Y8a_w

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 10:05 | 5742727 Payne
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looks like a dual engine flameout.  Almost impossible without fuel contamination.  The props do not look like they are spinning.  Someone with better skills can review the footage see if props are both spinning at speed.  

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 09:42 | 5742643 mr1963
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But, did the guy in the car get a flat tire?

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 12:28 | 5743225 Grinder74
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I don't see any plane.  It was just the Pentagon shooting a missile at its own building.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 01:31 | 5742094 Richard Chesler
Wed, 02/04/2015 - 08:38 | 5742544 cigarEngineer
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Captain Sum Ting Wong

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 09:00 | 5742569 HowdyDoody
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The company's chief engineer, Wing Dun Gon, thinks the aircraft may need more duct tape to restore it to full operational condition.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 01:34 | 5742105 ss123
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Ho Lee Fuk!

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 01:43 | 5742127 Debugas
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this is the real pilot name ? OMG!

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 01:37 | 5742107 Number 156
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Looks like he was trying to keep it over the buildings, then as he turned towards the river, the left wing lost lift and stalled. Miraculous if only two died!

Now, they better get treated with antibiotics. The locals try to cover their mouths when traveling across those rivers.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 01:39 | 5742119 giovanni_f
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If one of the dead is a jew the pilot will be indicted for aggravated antisemitism.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 02:08 | 5742148 Silver Bullet
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We've got an anti-Semite! Holy shit!

Oh wait, this is Zero hedge, these fuckers are EVERYWHERE.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 02:13 | 5742153 giovanni_f
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It took 27 minutes for such a response to appear in the middle of the night. Now I am reassured. I just wanted to be absolutely sure the AIPAC is on its post.

Thx.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 02:22 | 5742159 Silver Bullet
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Oh I love you man. You're probably one of those guys who actually thinks he's not racist, but of course, is. AIPAC? Ha. Good one. Another buzz word.
I do love on ZH that I'm actually considered a supporter of Israel. Anywhere else is my life, no, but on here I'm often confused as Menachem Begin

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 02:47 | 5742189 MayIMommaDogFac...
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Do you wear an eyepatch?

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 03:52 | 5742258 ILLILLILLI
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That was Moshe Dayan...who became a crusader for peace in the Middle East, metaphorically putting a thumb in the eye of Zionists that (still) want to kill all of the Arabs. Let's be gracious enough to give cedit where credit is due.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 07:57 | 5742487 LasVegasDave
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dementia

should have turned him loose in 73.

 

They'd be speaking hebrew in cairo

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 03:00 | 5742200 NidStyles
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Racism is a concept created by Zionists.

 

 

The rest of the world call's it tribalism, or protecting your own.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 12:30 | 5743223 Canoe Driver
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What about when you don't protect your own, but you still hate everyone else? What's that called?

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 16:58 | 5744448 A Nanny Moose
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Government

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 15:08 | 5743916 daveO
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Right. Racism is one of their thought control words. 

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 03:03 | 5742203 Monetas
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Silver is a Jewish name .... Phil Silvers .... I'm guessing you are a Jew .... shalom ?

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 09:23 | 5742588 Tall Tom
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All Jews are NOT Zionist. Many Jews are actually critical of the policies of the current Israeli Warmongering State.

 

All Zionists are NOT Jews. There are many Christian Zionists. There are even more Secular Humanist Zionists.

 

Silver Bullet wants you to believe that if you do not support the policies of Israel then you are a racist and anti-Jewish.

 

He impresses me to be just like a member of the Obama Administration, whom throws out the racism card whenever someone opposes a policy or policy recommendation.

 

He is a statist slime poser.

 

My boss, Jesus of Nazareth, is a Jewish Carpenter. Even He, as the Lord of all lords, and the King above all Kings, rejected the ZEALOTS, the Zionists of His day.

 

He will root out the fake Jews as He promises to do in Revelation.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 09:32 | 5742616 DetectiveStern
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Dude, there all fucking lizards. Every last one of them.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 10:05 | 5742723 Tall Tom
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No. That is not true.

 

Whenever you read or hear the words, "all", or, "Never", in any statement then you must take the statement and examine it with due skepticism, extreme predjudice, as to its veracity.

 

I will rarely use those words and it is rather exceptional when I do.

 

While many are the lizards you write about, and I will be more than agreeable that there are far too many, there are even many more than that whom are not.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 11:17 | 5742953 crazytechnician
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How do you define Jew exactly ? Considering that nearly every European has at least some Jewish blood flowing through their veins ?

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 12:35 | 5743241 Grinder74
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How do you define "African-American"?  Considering that everyone is descended from the same African woman from 600,000 years ago.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 15:14 | 5743938 daveO
Wed, 02/04/2015 - 11:20 | 5742955 TheReplacement
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Kinda like all Germans were nazis, all Russians were communists, all Irish are alcoholics, all Catholics are pederasts, and all black people are on welfare?  Is that the "all" you mean?

I do apologize Mr. Stern.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 11:22 | 5742963 crazytechnician
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But all Irish ARE alchoholics !

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 15:16 | 5743952 daveO
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I'll drink to that :).

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 12:36 | 5743246 Grinder74
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there =/= they're.  The dictionary is your friend.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 12:33 | 5743235 Grinder74
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True, except at least one of his disciples was a Zealot (Simon, and possibly Judas too).

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 03:08 | 5742212 atomicwasted
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I think a lot of people on here don't understand - or are sock puppets who intentionally obfuscate - that being against the government of the state of Israel and its actions is completely separate from being anti-Semitic.  They are two separate things.  Israel is just a state like any other.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 03:57 | 5742264 ILLILLILLI
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I'm sorry, but that doesn't follow the hasbara paradigm. An anti-semite is anyone who dares question the actions of Jews or Zionists...at all, in any regard.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 07:26 | 5742443 crazytechnician
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It's a little more complex than that. Lots of Jews don't agree with Israel and plenty of non Jews agree with Israel.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 07:30 | 5742461 General Decline
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I don't see how that's complex,..

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 09:31 | 5742613 crazytechnician
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To some that is very complex.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 11:32 | 5742991 armageddon addahere
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An anti Semite is anybody who disagrees with any Jew anywhere about anything.

Since it is impossible to agree with every Jew in the world about everything, therefore everybody is an anti Semite including all Jews.

See how simple it is?

Also, if you come up with an argument a Jew can't answer, you are a Nazi.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 15:21 | 5743974 daveO
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s_Post-Soviet_aliyah#Emigration_of_Jews...

Now, we see articles about them leaving France. Tribalism lives.

 

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 10:10 | 5742742 BraveSirRobin
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"I think a lot of people on here don't understand - or are sock puppets who intentionally obfuscate - that being against the government of the state of Israel and its actions is completely separate from being anti-Semitic.  They are two separate things.  Israel is just a state like any other."

I would agree with you except that at this site there is a tremendous amount of overt anti-Jewish hate, pure and simple. These people of course reflexively hate Israel since it is a Jewish state. 

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 10:28 | 5742801 BraveSirRobin
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And if you need proof, see how an airliner accident in Taiwan has degenerated into a hate Isreal and Jew fest. There is simply no connection between Isreal, Jews, and this accident, but somehow look at what we are discussing. Should I list all the anti-Isreal and Jewish posts on this thread? The point is, why did anyone bring up Israel and Jews at all in this thread since their is ZERO connection if it's not overt obsessive bigotry and hate?

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 11:24 | 5742959 crazytechnician
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Here Here. On the actual subject - the plane crashed into a very narrow river. If the pilot managed to do that deliberately - and assuming the crash was not pilot error then that captain is a hero and deserves a medal. Anywhere else would have turned into an catastrophic inferno for the passenegers and people on the ground.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 11:39 | 5743018 armageddon addahere
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You must be new. Right after this site opened a gang of trolls showed up whose job was to distract and derail any discussion critical of the powers that be. Their favorite tools were accusations of antisemitism or racism, or to stir up an argument along right/left, Dem/Rep lines.

They were surprisingly effective. Lots of readers went for the bait hook line and sinker. The smarter posters left for more congenial pastures.

The trolls and lowbrows are still here and by now this whole line of discussion has become ritualized.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 12:33 | 5743237 TuPhat
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If I knew where they went, I might go there as well.  But I don't know so I'm still a lowbrow on ZH.  Just don't call me a troll.

Thu, 02/05/2015 - 04:32 | 5746271 giovanni_f
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@BraveSirRobin. You said: "There is simply no connection between Israel, Jews, and this accident, but somehow look at what we are discussing."

The label "antisemite" has the power to immediately stop any discussion on Israel and end the carreer of virtually any public person in  the west (google "Jim Clancy", "Tim Willcox" who were both successfully character-assassinated after daring to criticise Israel).

"Antisemitism" is a weapon applied so outrageously often out of context that I allowed myself the chuzpah do the same thing but from the other direction. The explosive reaction of our pro-israel-anything friends tells me that I did right.

To learn about Jewish history and the roots of anti-semitism in Europe, read Israel Shahak's fantastic book, "Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years".

http://www.amazon.com/Jewish-History-Religion-Thousand-Eastern/dp/074530...

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 04:55 | 5742303 giovanni_f
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"AIPAC" is just a "label" whereas "antisemite" is not? I help you:

"AIPAC" actually is anything but a label. It is a well defined thing. Practically it is a terror organization, formally it operates legally predominantly in the US. Its purpose is to garner support for its genocide against the palestinians.

"Antisemite" is a (somewhat outworn but still effective) label predominantly used by Israel affiliated terror organizations such as above mentioned "AIPAC" as main weapon in order to character-assassinate people who dare question the legitimacy of "setllements" in previously ethnically cleansed areas.

This has nothing to do with crashing airplanes.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 11:25 | 5742977 crazytechnician
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Yawn.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 03:11 | 5742213 kingstukie
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It's a disease you catch for Jews.

Thank God it's spreading.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 05:04 | 5742316 Counterpunch
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actual group hate/racism, including anti-semitism, is repugnant and logically absurd.

 

But counter-Semitism is just common sense and self-preservation and 'diversity' and fairness.

 

Counter-Semitism - Metapedia

 

 

 

THE RULE OF the Talmudic Jew in modern times is nearly one of an absolute monarch of a country. The Jews, through their complete domination of world finance and banking — through their malignant monopoly of the mass media of America, Britain, France, Canada and other Western powers — through their influential and vast network of subversive “lobby groups” — through their dominion over the courts and law profession in general — not to mention their pernicious presence inside the highest levels of government of the most powerful countries — have thus taken full control of the entire planet, as was foretold in ancient Jewish religious texts.   - http://zioncrimefactory.com/jew-world-order/

 

 

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 12:36 | 5743252 Deathstar
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"It's a disease you catch for Jews.

Thank God it's spreading."

 

Yes,  it's spreading like my ass cheeks as I leave another one in the shitter.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 06:02 | 5742382 Jafo
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Which is the sacrier constituent in those rivers?  The organotoxins or the bio-agents?

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 01:36 | 5742108 heisenberg991
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Long Duk Dong

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 01:36 | 5742111 Rusty Shorts
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Notice how the wing tip sliced right through the concrete steel reinforced guard rail....NO WAIT

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 01:40 | 5742122 Bernanke'sDaddy
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HAHA.

 

Well Played.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 10:13 | 5742748 Bollixed
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Didn't even dent the railing...

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5c1_1423056655

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 02:05 | 5742145 The_Prisoner
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Hahaha!
And the whole bridge collapses on its own footprint soon after.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 03:42 | 5742246 Villageidiot777
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Also smaller pedestrian bridge collapsed nearby.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 09:52 | 5742667 Barry McBear
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The intact passport of the pilot was found on the passenger seat of the mini-van.  Must have fallen out a window as the plane turned overhead.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 11:28 | 5742984 crazytechnician
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It collapsed in sympathy.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 02:29 | 5742146 Monetas
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Planes disintegrate .... when passing through .... WTC towers .... too .... as when a raw egg hits the fan .... or try throwing a water baloon .... through concertina wire ! PS: Some people saw molten metal pouring from the WTCs .... I saw molten plastic !

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 08:11 | 5742504 papaswamp
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Must not have had enough concrete/ steel melting jet fuel. Send that fucker back up and try again!

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 09:48 | 5742656 Tall Tom
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WTC7

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 11:43 | 5743041 Absolute Truth
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where was this amount of fuselage in front of the Pentacon.... Puzzling

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 01:38 | 5742114 fascismlover
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That might be the first ever wings right down approach where almost everyone survived...I am getting really interested in physics after that.  If true...a miracle of science.

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Wed, 02/04/2015 - 01:38 | 5742117 unirealist
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What's that plane fuselage built out of, titanium?

 

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 09:46 | 5742653 Tall Tom
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High Density Extruded Aluminum alloy, as every other Commercial Jet.

 

Titanium is much too brittle and much too expensive for jet fuselages.

 

Heat generated by atmospheric friction is not a problem for the skins of subsonic Jets.

 

However rigidity (which is the the lack of flexibility), and Metal Fatigue is a problem which Aeronautical Engineers must deal with. Titanium, being brittle, is much more apt to fail due to Metal Fatigue during the numerous pressurization/depressurization cycles a commercial jet will experience during its operational lifetime.

 

Titanium is not an appropriate material for the fuselages of Passenger Jets.

 

It may be appropriate for the SR-71, the X-15, and the Aurora as they fly at Hypersonic speeds. (Mach 5+) but not for commercial jets.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 01:39 | 5742124 Debugas
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most drawned under water

about 10 have been resqued so far

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 01:42 | 5742129 fascismlover
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About 10 what?  Fragments of fuselage and bodies?

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 03:40 | 5742243 DIgnified
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I'm guessing they're saying the deaths were drowning and that 10 people were rescued. Either that, or he's telling us his grandmother's secret spaghetti sauce recipe. 

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 03:53 | 5742261 Debugas
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thats correct

several hours ago BBC radio reported that about 10 people had been rescued and the rest still under water in different parts of the plane's fuselage

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 04:43 | 5742311 DIgnified
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Your post was pretty rough around the edges.  I got the gist though. 

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 01:53 | 5742133 maitrepoulet
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Damn...Sadly 9 dead so far and some 30 unaccounted for. Still, does look like the pilot tried to avoid the buildings...not sure if the pilot survived, but should definitely get a commendation for trying to save more lives. 

If the Malaysian Gov't or Australian gov't conducted this rescue, they'd still be looking for the plane on the other side of the bridge. 

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 04:00 | 5742265 ILLILLILLI
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LOL...or another country, for that matter.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 01:59 | 5742137 Monetas
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This guy wishes  he could jump in a river ! http://i.4cdn.org/b/1422984895020.webm

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 08:51 | 5742559 cigarEngineer
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did he died?

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 02:05 | 5742147 The_Prisoner
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That plane symbolises the Australian Dollar.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 02:11 | 5742151 thegr8whorebabylon
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rip

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 02:25 | 5742160 Bunga Bunga
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The bridge didn't burn and collapse, must be fake.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 02:43 | 5742183 Monetas
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This was obviously staged .... in a burbank studio !

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 03:17 | 5742223 Monetas
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Too much "Fracking" going on in Calabria ?

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 02:26 | 5742162 Silver Sativa
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Just dashboard cam things.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 02:38 | 5742178 SHRAGS
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Looks like an engine failure after takeoff and subsequent mishandling.  This is the most critical manoeuvre that a pilot faces and extremely precise handling is required.  There is a single engine best climb speed (V2), get below this speed, and you won't get the certified climb gradient to allow you to clear obstacles.  Get even slower and you go below VMCA (minimum control speed) - below this the rudder cannot counteract the yaw of the power asymmetry. Noting the roll in the video, that's what looks like happened.  

There was a very similar training accident in Darwin in 2010 ( http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2010/aair/ao-2... )

Perhaps he was trading airspeed for height in an attempt to clear the buildings, got too slow and lost rudder authority.

 

 

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 02:48 | 5742191 Monetas
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Viagra works pretty good .... for my rudder authority !

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 03:02 | 5742201 Automatic Choke
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one must have sympathy for the pilot(s) in a situation like this.....you can train and train, but nothing prepares you for a butt-clenching real emergency, and if the control margins are that thin (I'm taking your word for it, i'm not a pilot), then <insert preferred deity> help him(her).  sounds like there was a lot of skill and a lot of dumb luck making it to the river.

 

sheesh....i wish the morons on this site would give it a break.

 

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 03:23 | 5742228 SHRAGS
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The margins are indeed thin, you would only expect 1.6% climb gradient (certification says you should get 2.4%, for test pilots and new aircraft)  The max weight you can take off with is worked backwards from the most limiting obstacle on your intended flight path.  It is quite common to take of at the performance limits of the aircraft.  As I said, extremely precise handling is required when you are operating close to the perrformance envelope of the aircraft.

Our company trains down to visibility of 125m for takeoff (some operate down to 75m).  Thats when an engine failure at the stop/go decision point gets interesting.  You have to detect the swing &  apply the correct rudder seeing only 3 runway lights and rotate off the runway without any outside reference.  We train this at max certified takeoff weight and maximum crosswind + downwind on a wet runway. 

There isn't any time to clench, you are completely focused on controlling the aircraft in this situation.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 04:01 | 5742266 ILLILLILLI
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Thanks for the informative post...

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 10:30 | 5742689 Tall Tom
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Watch the video again.

 

Look at the Tail end of that aircraft and you can see, clearly, the damage to the port side rear stabilizer.

 

(Freeze the video at 20 sec.) 

 

Or freeze this video at 4 seconds.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eJNAx4BsUtE

 

 

 

This had nothing to do with an engine failure.

 

 

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 10:36 | 5742828 BraveSirRobin
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I think the point was to guess why the aircraft clipped the building in the first place. I looks to me that the props are rotating, but the wing configuration is clearly clean - no flaps are visibly extended. So, I think their premise is loss of engine power = loss of airspeed, = loss of altitude which results in the aircraft not being able to clear the building. I think that is what earlier posters were getting at. 

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 11:14 | 5742948 Tall Tom
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Look at the REAR of that Aircraft. The Rear has the Rudder and two stabilizers...usually orthogonally positioned. When the plane rolls to the point where the view of the belly is almost perpendicular, THEN PAUSE IT.

 

You will notice that more than One Half of the Port Stabilizer is MISSING.

 

It was knocked off during a collision...with a bridge...that collision which was NOT SEEN in this video as it had happened previously upon takeoff.

 

Both engines are running. It has nothing to do with the rudder. It has nothing to do with the engines.

 

Freeze this video at 4 seconds. I am looking at it as I write this.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 02:45 | 5742185 gwar5
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Don't see that every day.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 10:35 | 5742817 Tall Tom
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If that type of event happened daily then you still would not be seeing it every day as there would be no airline industry.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 02:57 | 5742198 Smuckers
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That is sooooo 2014.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 03:14 | 5742216 imaginalis
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The wingtip skiffed the roof of that van and whosever was in it had a lucky escape

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 03:36 | 5742240 Bobportlandor
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Better video looks like he might have took it down to miss power lines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eJNAx4BsUtE

 

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 03:51 | 5742260 SHRAGS
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That's a much clearer video.  Right at the start it looks like he is descending a a high rate with quite a high nose attitude (slow).  Perhaps he was trying to stretch the glide over the road to the river and got too slow.  Could have been a stall & wing drop or loss of rudder authority.  

I doubt he would have seen the pylons & wires. Unless the light is just right they are almost impossible to see which is why they kill so many ag pilots and low flyers.  

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 08:38 | 5742546 papaswamp
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Clips that van on the bridge too. Didnt see that first time around.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 04:06 | 5742270 Rusputin
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STAGED EVENT ALERT:

Looks all fake to me:

a)      The plane turns too quickly in my opinion.

b)      Where are the 55 survivors swimming about or resting on the river bank being treated?

c)       You would expect quite a number of survivors to be sat on the bank in shock and relief. It appears the rescue has been going on for some time already. I count 7 rescue boats in the water and thus the ‘incident’ must be at least 30-60 minutes old by the time of the shots.

d)      Everyone is standing or working and all appear to be male.

e)      No other debris floating in the river or washed up either.

f)       Also 3 dead out of 58, when a plane hits water at over 100mph sounds too good to be true, bones break at a 7mph impact. The plane that hit the Potomac river was smashed, only a handful got out alive.

g)      55 people would not fit in the visible section of the fuselage in an air pocket.

h)      55 people are not coming out alive from a submerged and broken up fuselage, full of tangled wires, furnishings, luggage thrown about!

i)        The river rescue would therefore be a drill.

Nice bit of video editing though. Maybe someone should do a technical analysis on the footage frame by frame.

 

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 04:21 | 5742282 Rusty Shorts
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Wag the Dog baby. Indian Scalps for sale on eBay - sleep with one eye open. Peace

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 04:23 | 5742286 ebear
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Don't you have anything better to do with your time?

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 07:15 | 5742445 StandardDeviant
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Really.  FFS...

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 05:04 | 5742305 SHRAGS
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There are 2 independent videos, the one in the article and this one: http://youtu.be/eJNAx4BsUtE  Both show exactly the same thing.

Your point (A) doesn't take into account a stall & wing drop or loss of rudder authority.  It looks exactly as you would expect for an incipient spin.  When an aircraft lets go it is a violent out of control manoeuvre.

Sorry to disappoint, but the crash looks VERY real.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 06:25 | 5742393 Lumberjack
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Looks real to me. Remember this crash involving a cargo jet a few years ago? Looks like cargo shifted and it stalled.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ColjRb3gHrk

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 10:59 | 5742901 Tall Tom
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The video in the article is a Television broadcast of infromation garnered from the video on YouTube.

 

This had nothing to do with "loss of Rudder authority" as the port rear stabilizer is damaged causing the resultat roll to port due to the lack of lift from the Tail..

 

 

There are three motions in any aerodynamic vehicle...Pitch, Roll and Yaw.

 

Yaw is controlled by the rudder.

Pitch is controlled by the Rear Stabilizers.

Roll is controlled be the alierons on the Wings.

 

This is BASIC KNOWLEDGE taught at any Pilot Training School in the World. It is as basic as the four forces acting on any stable aerodynamic vehicle.

 

You can actually garner a rudimentary education BY READING about this in FLIGHT DYNAMICS...

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_dynamics

 

The Rudder on any aircraft controls the Yaw, the direction pointed.

 

One half of Port Side Rear Stabilizer is missing....

 

There is NO LIFT whatsoever. The plane in that misconfiguration will ROLL....TO THE PORT...WHICH IT DID.

 

The Alierons on the wings do not have that surface area, thus the force necessary, to counteract that.

 

Watch the video frame by frame as I have.

 

YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE WRITING ABOUT. YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW TO FLY.

 

FUCKING READ BEFORE YOU WRITE.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 18:47 | 5744962 SHRAGS
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Wow, all caps and shouting.   Why the anger and hostility, seriously? I was trying to pass on some knowledge about what may have occurred based on two grainy video's and historical precedent in this type of accident

I've watched the videos and don't see any external damage to the aircraft prior to the roll.  All flight controls look like they are intact until it crosses the white centreline of the road, perhaps it hit a lamp post?  You know those black strips at the front of the wing and the elevators are pneumatic de-icing boots?  Are you confusing those?  If it was missing half an elevator, how was it flying wings level until just before it rolled.

Perhaps it is you that doesn't know as much as you think you do.  Go google Vmcg Vmca. and look at the link I posted earlier.

I guess the last 20+ years of my life sitting in high capacity aircraft has been a dream.  You seem incredibly sure of your own opinion, why qualifies you as an expert opinion?  Have you ever considered that perhaps it is you that needs to engage the brain prior to typing.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 04:49 | 5742318 Counterpunch
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It looks real to me and much of what you say doesn't, at least to me, make a lick of sense.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 05:22 | 5742352 Rusty Shorts
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009 Sound System-Born To Be Wasted - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0fUDymAA6I
Wed, 02/04/2015 - 08:49 | 5742537 Rusputin
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There are plenty of online debunkers who will do a thorough job on analysis here, but the stills show no floating bodies, parts or clothes etc, so that would be a new point j) on my list...

Give it 24 to 48 hours and we'll see what better informed people have to say and come up with.

My point a) could be wrong, but I see no rudder out event or full ailerons to provide this roll and dive, not a stall or weight shift either - I'll make this new point k).

Also another new point l) the car on the bridge hit by the wing tip does not have damage consistent with this type of impact, looks like footage of a bog standard car roll-over to me. I'd expect to see a big scraping slice as the wing tip clips the car.

http://rt.com/news/229135-taiwan-plane-crash-video/

Anybody got any intelligent comments about each point made, apart from a)? In absence I'm calling it - a staged and faked event.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 08:49 | 5742557 Wahooo
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I guess they got away with the gold.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 10:40 | 5742839 Tall Tom
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Maybe someone should do a technical analysis on the footage frame by frame.

 

Already did. It is quite real.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 05:17 | 5742347 ebworthen
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Well shit, glad I wasn't on that commuter.

Coast to Coast reported 12 dead, but still pretty good considering.

Reminds me of the plane that went down in D.C. back in 1980-1981, Lenny Scutnick (sp?) jumped in to save a Stewardess, Howard Stern the next morning joked that the Stewardess's asked "Would you like ice with your drink?" right before it crashed into the frozen river.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 05:22 | 5742355 Rusty Shorts
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roger roger

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 06:01 | 5742379 Fíréan
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Taiwan's civil aviation authority said 15 people were killed out of 28 pulled from the fuselage and that 30 people were still missing.

Source : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/03/transasia-plane-crash_n_6609928...

with  photo of the plane in the river mostly submerged under water.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 06:25 | 5742388 buzzsaw99
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In other news a nearby building has completely disintegrated into its own footprint at amazing speed from structural damage due to seismic disturbance from the impact. No wait, it's still up. Okay, now it's down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltP2t9nq9fI

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 06:28 | 5742396 Baby Eating Dingo22
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In US, the "luckiest van driver in the world" that had its roof pierced by the wing would end up being ticketed for reckless driving and not taking proper evasive steps

Assets would be confiscated

Blood and other DUI tests

And then sued by the plane passengers, airline, and crew

 

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 06:39 | 5742406 buzzsaw99
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damn was he flying a commercial airliner or dusting crops?

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 06:57 | 5742432 Jano
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wt us wait. however it would be a sheer luck, if "only" 3 dead passangers would be the price.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 07:38 | 5742470 sidiji
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That is some seriously good piloting...well not the bridge hitting part...but he stuck the landing didnt he?

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 08:03 | 5742496 Ace Ventura
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One thing I noticed.....for an airline commuter that has just taken off, I don't see much in the way of deployed wing-flaps. I know these get retracted after take off, but not typically until sufficient altitude and airspeed are attained. From the video, it appears that neither of these was reached before approaching the buildings. Could be the pilots reacted by trying to pitch the nose up to increase altitude, which only made the low-lift condition worse, even at full throttle. Again, hard to tell for sure, but it sure looks like the wings are already trimmed for straight-level flight at altitude.

Is it just me....or does it seem like a majority of these regional commuter accidents involve prop-driven platforms? The only jet-powered commuter incident I can recall from recent memory is the one where the pilots mistakenly attempted take-off from a closed runway that was undergoing repairs.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 12:49 | 5743298 Deathstar
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It's called stall combined with severe and sudden cross wind.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 08:16 | 5742515 papaswamp
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@airlivenet: ALERT 23 confirmed dead in Taiwan plane crash, country's Civil Aeronautics Administration says - @NBCNews http://t.co/vZ9WfXXV5j

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 10:43 | 5742773 BraveSirRobin
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Looking at the video I would not think there would be any survivors. Initial reports were probably only of bodies recovered so far.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 08:28 | 5742529 sidiji
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reminds me of a joke, how do you make kosher flambe?  stick a bunch of jews on a Malaysian airliner. 

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 10:16 | 5742762 BraveSirRobin
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Reminds me of the Joke of the sick, twisted Jew hater who goes by the name of sidiji on Zero Hedge. BTW, you are wanted at your office - Adolf Hitler is calling.

How do you turn a human tragedy in Taiwan into a sick, tasteless attack on Jewish people? Not even a speck of remorse or sympathy for the dead and their families. Sick indeed.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 12:29 | 5743218 sidiji
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Some people just have no sense of humor....ok to even things out, here's one you'll like:  how do you make 10 million Palestinians?  Start with 20 million, genocide 1/2 and put the rest in concentration camps in Gaza and the West Bank.  haha I thought you'd like that one.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 12:42 | 5743280 Totin
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Fixed:

 

how do you make 10 million Palestinians?  Start with 20 million, suicide 1/2, and blame it on the Israelis.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 12:44 | 5743289 Deathstar
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Stow the pro-khyke rhetoric.  They control you. They will stab you in the back if given the chance.  Read their talmud you moron.

You are the perfect example of the Stockholm syndrome.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 09:05 | 5742573 CHX
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Did I dream or was there USD written on the fuselage ?

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 09:40 | 5742638 homiegot
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Ho Lee Fuck Sum Ting Wong

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 10:11 | 5742739 Mike Honcho
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Pilot to copilot - "bet ya I can"

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 10:18 | 5742766 Duc888
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Looks real to me but WTF do I know.

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 11:41 | 5743032 AviationMeditation
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We got the bubble headed

Bleached blonde

Comes on at five

She can tell you 'bout the plane crash

With a gleam in her eye

It's interesting when people die

Give us dirty laundry

 

RIP

Wed, 02/04/2015 - 12:13 | 5743154 monad
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