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Offline Cthulhu

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Re: Close Call
« Reply #15 on: August 06, 2008, 04:22:32 PM »
Quote from: FrodeMk3 on August 06, 2008, 04:16:26 PM
Yenny, this was a horrible tragedy, no matter which side of the Iron curtain your on. Myself, I wouldn't have used such light or unconsiderate language in posting this.
Give him a break. I don't think he meant any disrespect to the victims. In a way I'm glad the camera was focused on the Su-27 and not the crowd. This is gruesome enough out of focus. :uhoh
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #16 on: August 06, 2008, 04:23:22 PM »
Quote from: DickBong on August 06, 2008, 04:22:20 PM
how many were injured and how many were killed in that crash/accident
85 killed, over a hundred injured.
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #17 on: August 06, 2008, 04:31:24 PM »
wheres that darned "rule -7" stick @ when u need it?
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #18 on: August 06, 2008, 04:33:54 PM »
Quote from: Cthulhu on August 06, 2008, 04:23:22 PM
85 killed, over a hundred injured.

wow....that's awful.  my late condolences to them :salute (when did this happen again (the film)? 2002?
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Offline Cthulhu

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Re: Close Call
« Reply #19 on: August 06, 2008, 04:35:26 PM »
Quote from: DickBong on August 06, 2008, 04:33:54 PM
wow....that's awful.  my late condolences to them :salute (when did this happen again (the film)? 2002?
July 2002.

There's a rather graphic post-crash video on the Wikipedia link I posted earlier. It's up to you whether you choose to watch it or not. Very sobering. :salute
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #20 on: August 06, 2008, 04:58:43 PM »
Quote from: FrodeMk3 on August 06, 2008, 04:16:26 PM
Yes. I believe they found enough of the camera intact, but the same couldn't be said of the photographer.

Yenny, this was a horrible tragedy, no matter which side of the Iron curtain your on. Myself, I wouldn't have used such light or unconsiderate language in posting this.

Oh I'm being straight foward, not like I colored my word of anything. I just said look at the timing on that pilot. I don't think I've said anything offensive. To me that pilot is a hero, staying in as long as he can to pilot the plane out of the crowed area and eject at the last possible second.
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #21 on: August 06, 2008, 05:00:46 PM »
Quote from: Yenny on August 06, 2008, 04:58:43 PM
Oh I'm being straight foward, not like I colored my word of anything. I just said look at the timing on that pilot. I don't think I've said anything offensive. To me that pilot is a hero, staying in as long as he can to pilot the plane out of the crowed area and eject at the last possible second.

That's not what he did.
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #22 on: August 06, 2008, 05:03:26 PM »
Oh maybe it was a different one I'm remembering.

Quote from: DickBong on August 06, 2008, 04:12:48 PM
:O :eek:  wow...did you see that up close camera view.....just WOW

Is this the same one w/ the picture? in the picture it seems like it was a Mig-29, in the film linked it's an SU-27.
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #23 on: August 06, 2008, 05:28:30 PM »
 :O That pic's insane... I read about this a long time ago, very sad.
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #24 on: August 06, 2008, 05:59:31 PM »
Picture looks fake...everything but the plane is motion-blurred.
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #25 on: August 06, 2008, 06:02:30 PM »
That was all Pilot error. Then he ejected to save his own butt. He should have known that the Flanker could not have recovered from that.
It doesn't even look like the burners were lit. Flankers smoke unless they are in burner.

As for fake, I think not. The reason everything is blurred except the plane is because the photographer was panning the shot on the plane. Follow the moving object and then everything else will be out of focus.
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #26 on: August 06, 2008, 07:00:40 PM »
Quote from: Donzo on August 06, 2008, 05:59:31 PM
Picture looks fake...everything but the plane is motion-blurred.
Cameraman was tracking the plane. Maybe the blurriness is because the people couldn't manage to move as fast as the airplane. :rolleyes:
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #27 on: August 06, 2008, 07:08:57 PM »
Quote from: Yenny on August 06, 2008, 05:03:26 PM
Oh maybe it was a different one I'm remembering.

Is this the same one w/ the picture? in the picture it seems like it was a Mig-29, in the film linked it's an SU-27.
Yenny, it's a 2-seater SU-27.
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #28 on: August 06, 2008, 07:54:55 PM »
I followed one of the links and then wished I hadnt. Its heartbreaking to see the broken little bodies of children on the pavement.

This was a terrible event.
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #29 on: August 06, 2008, 08:03:10 PM »
Quote from: Rich46yo on August 06, 2008, 07:54:55 PM
I followed one of the links and then wished I hadnt. Its heartbreaking to see the broken little bodies of children on the pavement.

This was a terrible event.
When the camera person walks past the pilot and his chute, there is a person in front of a prop transport who was in a lawn chair, cut in half.

Ugh.
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