James Gosling witnesses and blogs Reno airshow crash.
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James Gosling witnesses and blogs Reno airshow crash.
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Re: James Gosling witnesses and blogs Reno airshow crash.
#2The youtube video linked on his story has been removed by Youtube for "content violations". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCNePeKn3Tg&feature=playe...
Re: James Gosling witnesses and blogs Reno airshow crash.
#3The youtube video linked on his story has been removed by Youtube for "content violations". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCNePeKn3Tg&feature=playe...
Here's a currently-working video; I'm not sure if it's the same one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYaEh9h5aM0 .
There's a Wikipedia article about the crash, with a bunch of news links: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/2011_Reno_Air...
Another angle, showing the plane climbing high into the sky before turning over and diving: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndd9PVDM3jU
Assorted photos of the crash and aftermath (no gore, but beware): http://www.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=J7&Dato=20...
Re: James Gosling witnesses and blogs Reno airshow crash.
#4Here is a clear version of the youtube video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybgd0EfxWCI
Re: James Gosling witnesses and blogs Reno airshow crash.
#5Here's the whole video (it happens about 39 minutes in.) Please note it's somewhat disturbing:
http://www.livestream.com/loadedtv/video?clipId=pla_b2efcd7d...
This is really tragic.
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Re: James Gosling witnesses and blogs Reno airshow crash.
#7I know this is the internet and everyone (including me) watches every video link to any event, but please seriously consider whether you really want to watch the links people are posting here.
Effectively what happens is the plane is being followed by the camera, then when it crashes the camera loses focus for 2s, then refocuses in on a dead body, pans around to a few dead bodies, and zooms out to show you a bunch of bodies and some wreckage. Like Gosling says in his post, there are no flames, no gore, not really even any smoke. What makes it so disturbing is that it's just lifeless bodies, instantly killed... just lifeless, no blood or explosions. I suppose that some of them may be unconscious, but just knowing that Gosling said most were dead or uninjured kind of makes me think otherwise.
Re: James Gosling witnesses and blogs Reno airshow crash.
#8The youtube video linked on his story has been removed by Youtube for "content violations". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCNePeKn3Tg&feature=playe...
Here's a currently-working video; I'm not sure if it's the same one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYaEh9h5aM0 . There's a Wikipedia article about the crash, with a bunch of news links: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/2011_Reno_Air... Another angle, showing the plane climbing high into the sky before turning over and diving: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndd9PVDM3jU Assorted photos of the crash and a…
To give the uninitiated an idea of what happened, whenever a plane at the Reno races experiences a mechanical problem, the pilot points the aircraft vertical and bleeds off all their forward speed. Once they're high enough, they level off and glide to the runway for a landing.
For the 'Unlimited' class of race aircraft, this typically occurs once a day during the races. These aircraft are running 3000hp engines, and race at speeds around 500mph.
Link #3 has the best angle on this maneuver. It looks like the pilot lost control shortly after pulling the plane vertical, after which it rolled 180 degrees and pitched straight to the ground.
Re: James Gosling witnesses and blogs Reno airshow crash.
#9I know this is the internet and everyone (including me) watches every video link to any event, but please seriously consider whether you really want to watch the links people are posting here. Effectively what happens is the plane is being followed by the camera, then when it crashes the camera loses focus for 2s, then refocuses in on a dead body, pans around to a few dead bodies, and zooms out to show you a bunch of…
That's is what affects me most about these things. When I see videos of people being murdered (beheadings, the hammer video) it's shocking but there's no connection because I at least never think "I could be murdered next! Someone wants to hurt me!" but with this it's people just in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's scary how fragile human life is and this is a reminder even if you're the most wonderful purpose and there's no malicious intent involved you're still at risk.
Re: James Gosling witnesses and blogs Reno airshow crash.
#10This is the fourth fatal air show accident/crash I've seen in less than a month:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/21/us-kansas-airshow-... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14602900 http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/homepage_showcase/accident-at-selfri...