darwin award,dimwit,plane,crash,air force,accident If you are afraid to fly.. Don't watch this!

If you are afraid to fly.. Don't watch this!

posted by mintbbb

8 months 4 weeks ago • 1277 views

tags: darwin award, dimwit, plane, crash, air force, accident

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I am afraid of flying, and here I am.. watching and posting something like this! Add me to the list of dimwits, but oh well..

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Just curious, didn't people die in some of these accidents? If so, wouldn't this be considered snuff?

written by steroidg | 8 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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I had the same thought... kind of classless to call them dimwits... at the very least in some cases it seems clear that mechanical issues were at least partly to blame...

written by Januari

| 8 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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*discuss

cuz people die in it.. but we've had other videos in the past where people die and they were allowed.. i think the most recent example was a huge explosion in canada..

written by pipp3355

| 8 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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written by siftbot

| 8 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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The first 3 minutes seem to be ok but the last minute is in my opinion snuff.

written by thegrimsleeper

| 8 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Fine, I'll *discard, so nobody will be scarred for life

written by mintbbb

| 8 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Discarding this post - discard requested by original submitter mintbbb.

written by siftbot

| 8 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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What?! Discard?! Snuff is snuff, but this is newsworthy footage in my opinion, so it doesn't deserve to be discarded. I agree the tongue-in-cheek nature of the title is a bit appalling, and the Top Gun soundtrack doesn't help to make it not feel atrociously macabre. But, I don't think this isn't Siftworthy.

Mintbbb, I think you made a mistake for discarding this video.

written by blankfist

| 8 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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*promote this back into mintbbb's queue.

written by blankfist

| 8 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Only published, queued, or discarded videos, published Sift Talk posts, and published blog posts may be promoted - ignoring promote request by blankfist.

written by siftbot

| 8 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Um, hey Siftie, if you haven't noticed this is a discarded video, so please *promote it. Much appreciated, you worthless bucket.

written by blankfist

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Only published, queued, or discarded videos, published Sift Talk posts, and published blog posts may be promoted - ignoring promote request by blankfist.

written by siftbot

| 8 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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*return

written by lucky760

| 8 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Returning this video from Sift Talk - return requested by lucky760.

written by siftbot

| 8 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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*promote...

written by blankfist

| 8 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Friday, October 10th, 2008 2:21pm PDT - promote requested by blankfist.

written by siftbot

| 8 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Thanks =) Modified the title to to something more suitable!

written by mintbbb

| 8 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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HAHAHA! Maybe people got hurt! Hehe.

(Please note I didn't vote for this video.)

written by Napalm

| 8 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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mint, you've been on fire yourself lately with these submissions of yours! Great sntuff!

written by shuac

| 8 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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I'll upvote any video with John McCain in it. I think he piloted at least a few of these!

Oh yeah.. and happy fleet week, SF.

written by Trancecoach

| 8 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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It isn't snuff if you can't see people dying.

written by Fade

| 8 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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I thought it was good until the last minute too.

written by alizarin

| 8 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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I'm a pilot and I'm novoting this -- the tone is too smarmy for me. These are people falling to earth and getting maimed or killed (usually not even doing particularly Darwinesque things).

I won't give my opinion on all of the clips (unless you're really interested) but I will say that the second one appears to be a not-uncommon approach and landing on the incredibly challenging Runway 13 at the now-defunct Kai Tak airport.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Tak#Runway_13_approach

The last one, though, unlike the others, *is* a total Darwin award; the asshole Air Force pilot had a reputation for being a cowboy and had long sworn that he would manage to roll a B-52 heavy bomber before he retired. Unfortunately he took his crew with him when he augered in.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,982358-1,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Fairchild_Air_Force_Base_B-52_crash

written by calvados

| 8 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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