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'Hero' pilot.
The pilot of the small plane that crashed into the housing estate last week has been hailed 'a hero' for aiming to avoid the houses.
Now call me cynical but if I were the pilot of that plane, I would be trying to find open space to land the plane safely, so that I may survive! The fact that he was steering the plane away from the houses towards the open space was more about trying to land the plane,saving himself and the passengers. The result that he only hit one house was just incidental, wasn't it?
Now call me cynical but if I were the pilot of that plane, I would be trying to find open space to land the plane safely, so that I may survive! The fact that he was steering the plane away from the houses towards the open space was more about trying to land the plane,saving himself and the passengers. The result that he only hit one house was just incidental, wasn't it?
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ok you are cynical.
You wern't there how can you possibly know what the pilot was doing and thinking from your smug little armchair?How can you know the state of the plane? how fast it was descending what he had time to do and what he did not?
Why must we always try and dig out the negative side of everything?
You wern't there how can you possibly know what the pilot was doing and thinking from your smug little armchair?How can you know the state of the plane? how fast it was descending what he had time to do and what he did not?
Why must we always try and dig out the negative side of everything?
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I can see your point of view but I think it's six of one, half a dozen of the other. Obviously had he WANTED to die, he wouldn't have steered it, but I should think in those few moments he had, he knew that his chance of survival was minimal. As you say though, more chance where a wall of bricks isn't in the way....
Loved the joke by Gromit BTW!
Loved the joke by Gromit BTW!
Of course this is a tragedy but there can be humour in even sad things.
Mr Harman, the owner of the house, unintentionally made me laugh in his interview. in the Mail this morning.
Apart from the fact he is continuing his golfing holiday and leaving Mrs H to sort things out, he describes receiving news of the crash but thought the plane had just clipped his house. He then watched it burn on tv, adding that
'It didn't hit home really.'
Mr Harman, the owner of the house, unintentionally made me laugh in his interview. in the Mail this morning.
Apart from the fact he is continuing his golfing holiday and leaving Mrs H to sort things out, he describes receiving news of the crash but thought the plane had just clipped his house. He then watched it burn on tv, adding that
'It didn't hit home really.'
The pilot of a crashed aircraft is invariably dubbed either a 'hero' or, effectively, a 'fool'. Someone always claims he was deliberately steering away from some site such as a primary-school playground (hero)or - at the later enquiry - that "pilot error" (fool) was entirely responsible for the crash in the first place.
The one thing we can be virtually certain of is that neither epithet ever really fits the situation. He was almost certainly just a well-trained and experienced bloke who did the best he could in the situation...end of story.
The one thing we can be virtually certain of is that neither epithet ever really fits the situation. He was almost certainly just a well-trained and experienced bloke who did the best he could in the situation...end of story.
Oh all these armchair pilots, I bet the only thing they have ever flown is a kite, and the more intelligent a model plane, (but these can be a sod at times).
In my book he was a hero (and I don't tend to use this label very often). Google Earth this area and you will see he was making for the only available wooded area, persumably to try and clip the trees to try and slow the plane down, but unfortunately he was losing height too rapidly.
In my book he was a hero (and I don't tend to use this label very often). Google Earth this area and you will see he was making for the only available wooded area, persumably to try and clip the trees to try and slow the plane down, but unfortunately he was losing height too rapidly.
I actually am now aware after the latest on this story, that the pilot was waving to people in a playing field to get out of the way - so as well as trying to save himself and passengers, he still had the presence of mind to think about others. I didn't know this before I posted the question. He was pretty heroic after all.
