# Worst ways to die #437 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 19, 2006, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ways-to-die-437/384835 "2006-12-19T21:14:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ways-to-die-437/384835/1 "2006-12-19T21:14:36Z")
Crash your plane into [20 feet of raw sewage](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/19/BAG8JN26UK1.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea). I can see the conversation now. Pilot 1: Damn! The engines are failing! Pilot 2: Do you see anywhere to land? Pilot 1: Negative, no viable areas. Losing altitude! Pilot 2: Wait! Over there, there’s a huge vat of liquid! Maybe if we angle it in… Pilot 1: Angling in! Pilot 2: We’re coming in too fast! Pilot 1: Wait, that’s not quite liquid. Pilot 2: What? What do you mean? Pilot 1: I think that’s a sewage plant! Pilot 2: Shit. Pilot 1: Exactly! ::sploosh:: - Yes, I know, small plane, one pilot. The conversation wasn’t nearly as interesting that way, though. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ways-to-die-437/384835/2 "2006-12-19T21:41:51Z")
What a crappy way to go. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ways-to-die-437/384835/3 "2006-12-19T21:46:27Z")
Guess the plane crapped out… ---
**Author:** ![SlowMindThinking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@SlowMindThinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlowMindThinking)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ways-to-die-437/384835/4 "2006-12-19T21:50:14Z")
Actually, I remember some poor skydiver dieing when he landed in a sewage treatment “pond” in the DC area. This would have been in the 1990-1991 time frame. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ways-to-die-437/384835/5 "2006-12-19T22:07:02Z")
That’s pretty close to where I live. They were three Japanese nationals who “had come to this country to learn how to fly”, apparently. I hope they died on impact, rather than drowning in the nasty sludge. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ways-to-die-437/384835/6 "2006-12-19T22:22:00Z")
Hell, even suffocating in an airtight cabin would be better than…ooog. > [@sfgate.com](#): > > the plane probably came in at a very steep angle. So maybe they didn’t survive the hit. Kinda hope not. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ways-to-die-437/384835/7 "2006-12-19T22:34:21Z")
St Peter: “How did you die?” Japanese pilots: “We crashed straight down into a pool of shit.” St. Peter:(holding his nose) “You go to Hell.” ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ways-to-die-437/384835/8 "2006-12-20T00:53:58Z")
[“It appeared to fall from the sky in a tailspin”](http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/19/BAG2NN2CTL7.DTL), according to an eyewitness. Straight down. So yeah, they probably died instantly. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ways-to-die-437/384835/9 "2006-12-20T01:01:28Z")
Well, that’s one bit of good news anyway. There’s no way anyone could have survived _that_ twisted wreckage, so at least their lungs were effluvium-free before they died. Still, what a way to go. The medical examiner is going to have fun with that one. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ways-to-die-437/384835/10 "2006-12-20T01:20:00Z")
Foreign student pilots come to U.S. and crash planes into things. Seems like I heard that one before. Luckily, they greatly overestimated how far the splash would go and the neighborhood was spared. Operation Hiroshita they dubbed it. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ways-to-die-437/384835/11 "2006-12-20T01:30:03Z")
Final words on the CVR “Oh SHIT!” ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ways-to-die-437/384835/12 "2006-12-20T01:54:14Z")
[QUOTE=Rick] Final words on the CVR “Oh SHIT!” [/QUOTE] Y’know, a lawyer I know and I have this theory that a lot of the things that are published in NTSC accident-investigation transcripts as “(_unintelligible_)” or “(_garbled_)” are actually the pilots being, um, specially expressive about exactly how they feel about the situation… ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ways-to-die-437/384835/13 "2006-12-20T04:16:50Z")
Oh, that just is a, well, shitty way to go. In high school my chemistry class went on a field-trip to the municipal sewage treatment plant (worst field trip ever). We got to walk across the catwalks over the enormous, swimming-pool-sized tanks of poo. The place smelled exactly how you’d expect. And at periodic intervals along the catwalk, they had…life preservers. Like [these](http://floatplan.uscgaux.info/images/Lifering.gif). In case you fell into the vat of raw sewage. No one had the nerve to ask if they’d ever had to use them, but the general consensus amongst my classmates was that it may well be better to die than to live knowing that you nearly drowned in sewage. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ways-to-die-437/384835/14 "2006-12-20T10:01:57Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] The medical examiner is going to have fun with that one. [/QUOTE] Indeed, one can imagine **Gabriella** cackling merrily that it is up to some other poor shmuck that has to deal with these bodies. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ways-to-die-437/384835/15 "2006-12-20T15:13:43Z")
[QUOTE=NinjaChick] Oh, that just is a, well, shitty way to go. In high school my chemistry class went on a field-trip to the municipal sewage treatment plant (worst field trip ever). We got to walk across the catwalks over the enormous, swimming-pool-sized tanks of poo. The place smelled exactly how you’d expect. And at periodic intervals along the catwalk, they had…life preservers. Like [these](http://floatplan.uscgaux.info/images/Lifering.gif). In case you fell into the vat of raw sewage. No one had the nerve to ask if they’d ever had to use them, but the general consensus amongst my classmates was that it may well be better to die than to live knowing that you nearly drowned in sewage. [/QUOTE] There wouldn’t be enough showers … you’d never feel clean again. _shudder_ Hey, that reminds me of the doper that used the shitty Jacuzzi. Who was that again? By the way, did they even bother to recover the wreckage or bodies or was it like "I ain’t going in there! They’re dead they won’t care. We can just throw a couple of wreaths of flowers on there for the families, that’ll be fine. ". ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ways-to-die-437/384835/16 "2006-12-20T15:16:48Z")
“Yeah, it’s all heading for the anaerobic digester anyways…” :: shudder :: ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ways-to-die-437/384835/17 "2006-12-20T15:33:19Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] There wouldn’t be enough showers … you’d never feel clean again. _shudder_ Hey, that reminds me of the doper that used the shitty Jacuzzi. Who was that again? … [/QUOTE] I was curious so I did a search, it was [Happy Lendervedder](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=356483&highlight=jacuzzi). That was almost a year ago. Apologies to Happy for bringing it up, if the memories were finally starting to fade. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ways-to-die-437/384835/18 "2006-12-20T16:51:17Z")
They had some footage of the wreck on the morning news. If they wanted to land a plane in the tank, they couldn’t have aimed it much better. The tank’s been drained now, and the plane is quite simply all busted up. There was a lump of airplane about the size of a minibar fridge on the edge of the tank by the railing, and everything wlse was torn apart and wadded up in the tank. It’s definitely going to be a challenge to sort out what happened. The [Beech](http://www.mandmaviation.com/aircraft.htm) (bottom picture) they were in is a decently forgiving airplane that can tolerate a fair amount of clumsy piloting, so it should be difficult to push it into an unrecoverable spin, slip or stall. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ways-to-die-437/384835/19 "2006-12-20T17:42:19Z")
If only they had called in this guy to save the day: [http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061219/od\_uk\_nm/oukoe\_uk\_mexico\_sewers](http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061219/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_mexico_sewers) ---
**Author:** ![SlowMindThinking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@SlowMindThinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlowMindThinking)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ways-to-die-437/384835/20 "2006-12-20T17:48:39Z")
[QUOTE=pool] If only they had called in this guy to save the day: [http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061219/od\_uk\_nm/oukoe\_uk\_mexico\_sewers](http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061219/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_mexico_sewers) [/QUOTE] Man, what better proof do you need that it is all about attitude? I don’t care how much your job sucks, it is better than his _and he likes his job_! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ways-to-die-437/384835.md?page=2)