Skydiver hit by plane

[JellyWorld]

I just found this article on google news.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/2554.html

It's gross...

 

[LittleB]

Can you imagine losing your legs, then having to get over it quickly enough so that you can safely land? Horrifying.

 

[short recoil]

He took the risk, he died.

 

[KoreBolteR]

i feel sorry for him, and the people who knew him.. that is one of my worst nightmares (either the parachute not opening, or being stuck VERY hard by a vehicle)...

i would rather be shot in the head than fall to my death from a plane.

whats the chances of hitting a plane from skydiving , very unlucky guy, thatd happen to me if i did a skydive.

 

[Gunner]

Yeah it's just bad luck, like korebolter said, what are the odds? it's like an astronaut being hit by a satellite in orbit. :|

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

He took the risk, he died.

I'm jsut wondering, but what motivated you to actually write that?

 

[kmack]

He took the risk, he died.

I'm jsut wondering, but what motivated you to actually write that?

to take the time to do that is just sad. he is purely doing it to pursue some online image he is trying to establish, it is for a purely inflammatory reason. dont acknowledge it (anymore, im sure we'll get a relpy to this in which he defedns himselfs, and furthers his argument against this poor man).

 

[Ren.182]

Poor guy... Feel sorry for him

 

[Direwolf]

Wow, talk about bad luck. I think I have more of a chance of being eaten by a shark as I type this than that actually happening.
Sounds like he was a hell of a guy though.

 

[Kangy]

He took the risk, he died.

I don't really think anyone expects to be hit by a plane in the sky when they go skydiving. It's hardly a risk you'd expect. Fact is, a plane shouldn't be flying near skydivers anyway. How is it his fault?

 

[Tr0n]

His last name was wing...and he got hit by the wing of the plane. :|

Weird...

 

[Harryz]

He took the risk, he died.

Why do anything?

 

[Ennui]

Like getting hit by a car, but going a few hundred miles per hour.

That sucks. Poor guy.

 

[KoreBolteR]

his name was mr wing?

and he got hit by a wing ...

 

[Dan]

Yeah it's just bad luck, like korebolter said, what are the odds? it's like an astronaut being hit by a satellite in orbit. :|

An astronaut probably couldn't be hit by a satellite. First off mission control tracks every piece of debris up there, and secondly, everything at the same altitude has to move at the same speed to remain in orbit. So everything up there is moving the same speed as you are making a collision impossible, unless some crazy russians decided to orbit their satellites in the opposite direction of everyone else.

 

[Vegeta897]

The pilot was screwing around, and thought it would be funny to fly near him, to "show off" so to speak. You guys are aware that the plane that hit him was the one he jumped out of.

Come to think of it, my friend did this to me in Battlefield. Hate to add humor to this sad situation but.. It was pretty funny, in the game.

So yeah. When you screw around, others get hurt. An innocent man died because of it.

 

[Steve]

What are the odds!?!

 

[Ennui]

What are the odds!?!

Very, very small.

 

[kmack]

He took the risk, he died.

do you say the same thing about a person who is murdered on the street?

a person who gets in a car?

a person who boards a plane?

a person who leaves their house?

there is risk in everything you trogolydite :dozey:

 

[Vegeta897]

What are the odds!?!

Knock knock? I explained it in my post. What happened to the days when people read the thread

It was barely two pages, c'mon, don't be lazy.

 

[SimonomiS]

Pilot must feel like shit. Still, managing to land just after losing both legs takes skill.

 

[Direwolf]

An astronaut probably couldn't be hit by a satellite. First off mission control tracks every piece of debris up there, and secondly, everything at the same altitude has to move at the same speed to remain in orbit. So everything up there is moving the same speed as you are making a collision impossible, unless some crazy russians decided to orbit their satellites in the opposite direction of everyone else.

This is actually a massive problem in space a growing concern among the space community. While all the large pieces of debris are usually tracked, the millions of smaller pieces of debris in orbit are undetectable and all traveling in random paths. And to remain in orbit they all move at several hundreds of thousands of miles per hour, which is enough to cause liquefacation upon impact. Space shuttles have lost heat tiles and cracked windshields, and damage has been sustained from objects as small as an errant pain fleck.
Just a little aside.

 

[Gunner]

An astronaut probably couldn't be hit by a satellite. First off mission control tracks every piece of debris up there, and secondly, everything at the same altitude has to move at the same speed to remain in orbit. So everything up there is moving the same speed as you are making a collision impossible, unless some crazy russians decided to orbit their satellites in the opposite direction of everyone else.

Okay Mr. Scientist!

 

[<RJMC>]

wow thats really bad luck

 

[JFry]

The pilot was screwing around, and thought it would be funny to fly near him, to "show off" so to speak. You guys are aware that the plane that hit him was the one he jumped out of.

Where did it say that?
It'd be funny to see a leg or two fall out of the sky. I wonder where they landed.

 

[Th30N3Cr0wbar]

V_V I feel bad for his family

 

[Direwolf]

Hmmm...more confusing information. I'm looking at pictures of the damage done to the plane and the plane itself is a skydiving plane, but the article also states:

Witnesses said he slammed into an airplane after skydiving from a different plane over Volusia County Saturday morning.

 

[Vegeta897]

It's the same one.

 

[oldagerocker]

ouch... sadness. not good.

 

[Direwolf]

It's the same one.

I'm willing to think that might be the case, but I've yet to see absolutely any information to support it.

 

[Tr0n]

God...I can't resist it anymore...I have to say it.


He was pwned.

 

[evil^milk]

actually, if you think about it, he pwned everyone when he landed with his legs severed.

 

[MikeL15]

God...I can't resist it anymore...I have to say it.


He was pwned.

Dont say that in a thread like this.

You make me laugh, being disrespectful to the legless man .

Anyway, where did you find those pic of the planes damage? And Id be to scared that the plane took my... (i think you know what) off thatd Id probly die while still in the air...

 

[Burn]

He took the risk, he died.

You're a terrible person.

 

[Link]

Sucks to be him.

I am a little confused as to everyone saying "well done for landing". A parachute is not powered, so its not really like he had a choice. Or is it that he hit his landing zone?

The fact that he survived the impact is what amazes me. Don't read the next bit if your squemish:

Spoiler

A planes wing is very, very blunt. If it took of his legs then they wern't "chopped" off, they would have been ripped out of his pelvis

You would expect the trauma of that to be instantly fatal. I think I would have just cut my lines if it happened to me.

 

[Danimal]

Ouch. But then again, he took the risk of sky diving.

 

[kirovman]

Ouch. But then again, he took the risk of sky diving.

Not many people expect to be severed by a plane though.

The worst you expect is to hit the ground pretty hard, with a quick, relatively painless death.

Thinking about what he must have gone through is horrifying.


"Man gets hit by meteorite"

Well, he took the risk walking outside his house that day!

 

[Link]

True, but there is still a very very small chance of it happening, and it is a risk you accept. Same with going outside. In doing so, you accept the risk of being hit by a meteorite. Its a very small risk, but its something you accept in doing it.

Still, I would have gone and found one of my legs and buggered the pilot to death with the soggy end (Bad red dwarf reference)

 

[Teh_Poet]

Why do anything?

Some risks are worth it. Some risks, which are very small, happen.

 

[Glo-Boy]

An astronaut probably couldn't be hit by a satellite. First off mission control tracks every piece of debris up there

That's actually inaccurate. Mission control can monitor the big stuff, but last I heard there were about 50,000 little pieces of junk in orbit.