Plane crash in SFO.

[Perd Hapley]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMXRxNbPvGI

Should have a NSFW warning. Gonna have to fire you Regolith.

[geronimotwo]

Sounds like they've confirmed that one of the teenagers that died at the scene was in fact run over by a fire truck 
That said, even small plane crash sites can be chaotic.  I imagine a 777 with over 300 POB is a nightmare.

when she was run over she was covered in foam.  they didn't see her until after.

[Angel Eyes]

The NTSB was also fooled:   http://www.ntsb.gov/news/2013/130712.html

[Regolith]

Should have a NSFW warning. Gonna have to fire you Regolith.

It wasn't until late in, and I figured most people knew about it already.

Besides, technically it's your fault. 

[Matthew Carberry]

Hasn't been brought up yet in the thread that I've seen.

One of the slides deployed into the aircraft trapping people in their seats, with someone trying to deflate it with a butterknife, and numerous people were trapped by their seatbelts.

One of the crew went back into the cockpit for the axe and the first responders were resorting to tossing up knives and eventually going into the burning wreck to cut folks free.

Lucky they had the minutes to wait for that to happen.

Sure glad the flight attendent's union was allowed to override the actual security experts about reallowing pocket knives.

[Tallpine]

Hasn't been brought up yet in the thread that I've seen.

One of the slides deployed into the aircraft trapping people in their seats, with someone trying to deflate it with a butterknife, and numerous people were trapped by their seatbelts.

One of the crew went back into the cockpit for the axe and the first responders were resorting to tossing up knives and eventually going into the burning wreck to cut folks free.

Lucky they had the minutes to wait for that to happen.

Sure glad the flight attendent's union was allowed to override the actual security experts about reallowing pocket knives.

I wonder if you can carry ice skates in your carry on luggage 

[Fly320s]

I wonder if you can carry ice skates in your carry on luggage 

Yes, but only figure skates. Hockey skates are toooooooo dangerous.

[Matthew Carberry]

Yes, but only figure skates. Hockey Double-edged assault skates are toooooooo dangerous.

FTFY

[Marnoot]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=L1JYHNX8pdo

KTVU gets punked. 

Plane captain: Sum Ting Wong
Pilots and flight crew: Wee Tu Low, Ho Lee Fuk, Bang Ding Ow.

Asiana is now suing KTVU over this:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/15/asiana-airlines-to-sue-tv-station-over-fake-pilot-names-report/?test=latestnews

[Regolith]

Asiana is now suing KTVU over this:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/15/asiana-airlines-to-sue-tv-station-over-fake-pilot-names-report/?test=latestnews

 

It was stupid of the TV station not to realize the names were fake, but it doesn't really meet the definition of slander, either.

Perhaps someone should take the folks at Asiana responsible for that decision aside and explain the whole "First Amendment" thing to them...

[Perd Hapley]

Asiana is now suing KTVU over this:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/15/asiana-airlines-to-sue-tv-station-over-fake-pilot-names-report/?test=latestnews

Not the NTSB?

[Hawkmoon]

The NTSB didn't provide the names, but they (or one of "they") confirmed them.

It's bad enough a television news anchor could actually have read the names without twigging to the fact they were bogus, but how could an NTSB drone possibly have confirmed names that were not the names of any members of the crew?

I sincerely hope that person no longer works for the NTSB.

[Perd Hapley]

As I understand it, an NTSB intern provided the "names." Unless I am mistaken, and it was an intern at the station who made them up.

Apparently, some people are saying it was racist?   Morons, it's not racist. But it is funny.

[RoadKingLarry]

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[280plus]

Sure, it's ok to have the "Hung Won" Chinese restaurant. Nobody bats an eye at that. 

[230RN]

And where I came from there was a "Hung Fat's" restaurant.  Going the other way, I understand but can not confirm that Vick's Vapo-Rub (TM?) has a bad connotation in German.

[HankB]

Saw that a "lawsuit consultant" said that the airline is downright stupid to file suit; the way he put it, people died because Asiana's aircraft landed short on a runway in a routine landing that a novice pilot should have nailed; a lawsuit over a silly prank played on the TV station afterwards serves only to draw more attention to the entire incident, which it would be in the airline's best interest to have fade from the news ASAP. 

[AJ Dual]

Saw that a "lawsuit consultant" said that the airline is downright stupid to file suit; the way he put it, people died because Asiana's aircraft landed short on a runway in a routine landing that a novice pilot should have nailed; a lawsuit over a silly prank played on the TV station afterwards serves only to draw more attention to the entire incident, which it would be in the airline's best interest to have fade from the news ASAP. 

I agree.  And I don't like the abuse of frivolous lawsuits, or the nominally Left-biased trial-lawyers lobby that profits from it either.

However, anything that hurts or drains the Left-biased MSM is good in my mind. Since they're the ones who generally lay the "fertile ground" for the pool of potential jurors in America in the first place, and the death/destruction of the MSM is of critical importance as the first step in correcting a whole host of America's ills, including the influence of the trial lawyer's lobby, and mushy-headed juries in the first place.