MIAMI, Nov. 20 — An American Airlines crew member who opened the door of a jetliner too soon after an emergency landing was sucked out of the plane and killed Monday at Miami International Airport, police said.
THE PILOT OF American Airlines Flight 1291, from Miami to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, turned the A-300 Airbus around when he spotted an engine fire warning light in the ****pit and successfully landed back at the airport.
“Before he had a chance to depressurize the cabin, one of the crew members tried to open the door and the crew member was literally sucked out of the plane,” Miami-Dade Police spokeswoman Nelda Fonticella said.
As many as 12 other people among the 138 passengers and crew on the jet were treated for minor injuries after sliding down emergency chutes on the tarmac at Miami International.
Airport officials said it was not known if there was a fire in the engine or if the warning light malfunctioned.
I'm sorry, but that person had to be kinda stupid. I mean, wouldn't their training have taught them *not* to open the door til the cabin was depressurized? Don't get me wrong, I feel bad for them, but common sense should've helped out a bit, don't you think?
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"They call me Dr. Worm. Good morning, how are you? My name is Dr. Worm. I'm interested in things. I'm not a real doctor, but I am a real worm..I am an actual worm." - They Might Be Giants
Yeah, that was like the guy last year who worked for the same airline, was a manager at his particular airport, and he walked right into an active propeller on a commuter plane. Yuck, what a way to go, but...DUH.
yah...THAT was smart "hey there's a moving propeller...wonder what it's like to walk into that"
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"No man can be condemed for owning a dog.
As long as he has a dog, he has a friend;
and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has."
- Will Rogers
Loyalty and love are the best things of all, and surely the most lasting. -- My Dog Skip
Well, having flown on a prop plane, once the propeller really gets going you can't see it at all...but someone who works at an airport and is experienced enough to be a manager for an airline at that airport should know enough not to walk that close to a prop plane.
I have to say I'm with mth right here...but as they say common sense isnt' so common
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"No man can be condemed for owning a dog.
As long as he has a dog, he has a friend;
and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has."
- Will Rogers
Loyalty and love are the best things of all, and surely the most lasting. -- My Dog Skip
I haven't seen any of the Darwin awards for a couple years now, but the ones I've seen in the past were more extreme than that...Like the guy who attached jet rockets to his car? Eek.
you know, you cant blame that person. an emergency landing is always panicky and she may have been under pressure from the passengers to get outta the plane cause they thought it might explode or something else. you cant always assume that it was their fault...altho it might have been...blah blah blah
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who is the sexiest **** that you ever did see?
FI-NI-TY!
ok, excuse me for disrespecting the dead person...
but that is freakin hilarious! to get sucked out of the plane, what a moron! hahahaha! it just sounds so funny!
thats not very nice. how would you like it if your mother or sister or daughter was sucked out of an airline door and shred to bits and had to have a closed-casket funeral.
you cant be excused for disrespecting dead people.
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who is the sexiest **** that you ever did see?
FI-NI-TY!
Originally posted by Finity: thats not very nice. how would you like it if your mother or sister or daughter was sucked out of an airline door and shred to bits and had to have a closed-casket funeral.
you cant be excused for disrespecting dead people.
well, first off, i wouldn't care if any of my family got sucked out of an airplane. sure, i wouldn't be laughing that much, but i wouldn't really care. and another thing, i'm jewish, they have closed-casket funerals anyways.
Originally posted by Finity: thats not very nice. how would you like it if your mother or sister or daughter was sucked out of an airline door and shred to bits and had to have a closed-casket funeral.
you cant be excused for disrespecting dead people.
I was picturing two seperate incidents: getting blown out a door; and getting chopped to shreds by a propeller. I just now put the two of them together, and I'm picturing a cartoonishly gruesome way to pass this mortal coil...
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You'd *have* to have a closed-casket funeral. If you didn't, who's to say that a mourner might not mistake the casket containing the chopped-up loved one for the buffet table containing mounds and mounds of delicious barbecued beef? ROFL
Man, I'm cracking myself up over here...
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My grandmother pulled a Superman™ out of a sunroof of a car a few years back in an auto wreck - best thing to happen to our family...yeah, you can disrespect dead people, especially those who deserve it...hee hee hee...
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