Jim Carter wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Emily ]
Posted At: Sunday, August 06, 2006 10:31 PM
Posted To: rec.aviation.piloting
Conversation: Banner Plane Impacts Water w/ photo
Subject: Banner Plane Impacts Water w/ photo

Owen wrote:

Emily wrote:

Owen wrote:
Aug 5, 2006. Banner plane loses power off Hyannnis, Cape Cod,
Massachusetts and ditches in the water. Although beachgoers and
witnesses were stunned, the pilot swam away unscathed. The
Champion
was
later recovered from the water.

Picture as the plane hit the water: (wow!)
http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-
fba/Globe_Photo/2006/08/06/1154850848_7715.jpg

Story:
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/planecrashes6.htm


http://www.boston.com/news/local/mas...06/08/06/plane
_c
rash_off_hyannis_stuns_beachgoers/

How like the public to be more concerned about themselves than the
pilot.

Well if a car goes careening out of control while you're walking
down
the street and it looks like it could hit
you, would you at that particular instant be more concerned with
yourself or the driver?

This wasn't a car careening out of control, it was a plane crashing.
And yes, if I saw a plane crashing, I would be more concerned about
those on board than it falling on me.

I liked that part in the Cape Cod newspaper article where the witnesses
"thought it was going to hit the jetty and explode". I wonder just how
much ordinance this guy was carrying.

More misinformation that people pick up from Hollywood. Although they
kind of know that real automobiles do not explode when they crash,
people are less familiar with airplanes. They learn from the movies
that airplanes explode when they crash, even when they are out of fuel.
Think about that when someone blows off yet more Hollywood idiocy with
"It's only a movie."

By the way, nearly everything that people here in the Philippines know
about America they learn from watching American sit-coms.... And
Americans wonder why people from other countries look at them funny.