News: Pilot Rescued Seconds Before Train Crashes Into Airplane In California

[FlyTexas]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... 155052002/

Brian

[Nigel H-J]

Those officers certainly deserve a medal for what they did. They themselves could easily have been killed had they been a few seconds longer in removing the pilot from the wreckage.

Nigel.

[Airspeed]

Surprised that they couldn't advise the train to stop

[cstorey]

The train was travelling at a speed which I would estimate at 70 mph ; absolutely no chance of stopping it . Medals for bravery deserved here

[AllanL]

The time clock on the bodycam suggest that they pulled him clear about 5 seconds before the train struck, so it may have been less than 200 yards away as they pulled him free.

Astonishing courage shown by all present.

[Vancouver]

I saw some wag post on a forum somewhere "If reported by the Daily Mail it would be, 'vicious police officers assault and drag man bleeding from his aircraft before destroying his plane with a passing train'"
Sadly there does seem to be some truth behind their style of reportage.