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News: Pilot Rescued Seconds Before Train Crashes Into Airplane In California
Posted: 10 Jan 2022, 15:51
by FlyTexas
Re: News: Pilot Rescued Seconds Before Train Crashes Into Airplane In California
Posted: 10 Jan 2022, 16:12
by 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.
Re: News: Pilot Rescued Seconds Before Train Crashes Into Airplane In California
Posted: 11 Jan 2022, 03:27
by Airspeed
Surprised that they couldn't advise the train to stop
Re: News: Pilot Rescued Seconds Before Train Crashes Into Airplane In California
Posted: 12 Jan 2022, 08:58
by 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
Re: News: Pilot Rescued Seconds Before Train Crashes Into Airplane In California
Posted: 12 Jan 2022, 12:52
by 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.
Re: News: Pilot Rescued Seconds Before Train Crashes Into Airplane In California
Posted: 12 Jan 2022, 16:15
by 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.
