In the photos, you can tell that their fellow countrymen are sad by their long feces.
Not a good week for small airplanes in the Bay Area!
First the Gilroy crash, now this morning, another plane (a Piper PA-46 Malibu) crashes on approach to Buchanan Field in Concord. Three dead adults and one badly injured boy in the plane, and a major freeway interchange closed for hours.
This one was a failed TOGA - they’d attempted a landing, aborted and tried again, but they struck the grassy freeway median, about 1000 feet short of the runway. Weather was cloudy and rainy. Initial reports make it sound like the pilot is from Las Vegas, but the FBO at San Diego (where they left from) described the pilot as a fairly regular customer.
So, the fan hit the shit.
stands up, applauds and yells “Bravo.”
You know, before I read this, I thought I knew every reason for a closed-casket funeral possible…
I know a guy that lived through that type of experience. He worked as a hired hand at my uncle’s farm. One of his jobs was to scrape the floor of the barn with a bobcat and push the manure into a slurry store - which is a huge tank of liquid cow shit very similar to the one in the story. This manure gets a crust on the top of it and it can be difficult to tell where the edge is.
On this fateful day, the hired hand pushed the pile of manure too far and drove the bobcat over the edge. This one had a full cage and seatbelt and he said he didn’t get the seatbelt unfastened until the skidsteer hit the bottom of the tank. He was then able to swim the 20’ through liquid shit to the surface.
I don’t know if I’d want to survive that, but it would definetly be better than drowning in shit.