Goodyear Blimp Crash in Germany
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Goodyear Blimp Crash in Germany
Imagine my surprise to read about it first...........on book of f-ces..
Drama in Hessen: Drei Passagiere gerettet
Mods, feel free to move this OUT of jetblast (!) if appropriate.
Drama in Hessen: Drei Passagiere gerettet
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Fire drama in Hesse: In Reichelsheim (Wetterau) is a Goodyear-Zeppelin flight of a round fire to fall while! Drei Passagiere konnten sich retten. Three passengers survived. Der Pilot kam bei der Katastrophe in den Flammen ums Leben. The pilot died in the disaster in the flames died.
Das Unglück ereignete sich gegen 20.30 Uhr beim Landeanflug auf den Flughafen Reichelsheim. The accident occurred around 20.30 clock on the approach to the airport Reichelsheim.
After BILD.de information engine noise was a loud sound. Es roch nach Benzin. It smelled of gasoline. Die beiden 80-PS-Motoren des viersitzigen Zeppelins hatten Feuer gefangen. The two 80-hp engines of the four-seat Zeppelin had caught fire. Etwa 2 Meter über dem Erdboden rief der australische Pilot den Passagieren zu: „Wir haben einen Crash!“ About 2 feet above the ground called the passengers to the Australian pilot, "We have a crash!"
Darauf sprangen sie ab, der Pilot blieb an Bord – und das Luftschiff schoss (wohl durch den Gewichtsverlust) etwa 50 Meter in die Höhe! Then they jumped off, the pilot remained on board - and the airship shot (probably by the weight loss) about 50 feet in the air! Dann ging es in Flammen auf. Then it went up in flames.
Vom Boden waren noch die Schreie des Piloten zu hören. From the bottom of the cries of the pilots were still heard. Auf einer Wiese ging der Zeppelin kurz darauf nieder. In a meadow Zeppelin went down short of it. Am Unglücksort liegen die verkohlten Überreste. At the accident site are the charred remains.
Bei den Geretteten handelt es sich um ein TV-Team und einen Presse-Fotografen. When the survivors it is a TV crew and a press photographer.
Der Reifenhersteller Goodyear ist mit seinen Blimp-Luftschiffen gerade auf einer „Verkehrssicherheitstour“ durch mehrere Bundesländer unterwegs. The tire manufacturer Goodyear blimp, with its airships, just on a "safety tour" of several states on the road. „Blimps“ sind Luftschiffe ohne inneres Gerüst. "Blimps" are airships without internal structure. Größter Hersteller ist die Firma Goodyear. Is the largest manufacturer Goodyear.
Vom 10. Of 10 bis 13. to 13 Juni macht Goodyear anlässlich des Hessentages auch Station auf dem Flugplatz Reichelsheim. June Goodyear makes the occasion of Hessentag also stopped at the airport Reichelsheim.
Das Unglück ereignete sich gegen 20.30 Uhr beim Landeanflug auf den Flughafen Reichelsheim. The accident occurred around 20.30 clock on the approach to the airport Reichelsheim.
After BILD.de information engine noise was a loud sound. Es roch nach Benzin. It smelled of gasoline. Die beiden 80-PS-Motoren des viersitzigen Zeppelins hatten Feuer gefangen. The two 80-hp engines of the four-seat Zeppelin had caught fire. Etwa 2 Meter über dem Erdboden rief der australische Pilot den Passagieren zu: „Wir haben einen Crash!“ About 2 feet above the ground called the passengers to the Australian pilot, "We have a crash!"
Darauf sprangen sie ab, der Pilot blieb an Bord – und das Luftschiff schoss (wohl durch den Gewichtsverlust) etwa 50 Meter in die Höhe! Then they jumped off, the pilot remained on board - and the airship shot (probably by the weight loss) about 50 feet in the air! Dann ging es in Flammen auf. Then it went up in flames.
Vom Boden waren noch die Schreie des Piloten zu hören. From the bottom of the cries of the pilots were still heard. Auf einer Wiese ging der Zeppelin kurz darauf nieder. In a meadow Zeppelin went down short of it. Am Unglücksort liegen die verkohlten Überreste. At the accident site are the charred remains.
Bei den Geretteten handelt es sich um ein TV-Team und einen Presse-Fotografen. When the survivors it is a TV crew and a press photographer.
Der Reifenhersteller Goodyear ist mit seinen Blimp-Luftschiffen gerade auf einer „Verkehrssicherheitstour“ durch mehrere Bundesländer unterwegs. The tire manufacturer Goodyear blimp, with its airships, just on a "safety tour" of several states on the road. „Blimps“ sind Luftschiffe ohne inneres Gerüst. "Blimps" are airships without internal structure. Größter Hersteller ist die Firma Goodyear. Is the largest manufacturer Goodyear.
Vom 10. Of 10 bis 13. to 13 Juni macht Goodyear anlässlich des Hessentages auch Station auf dem Flugplatz Reichelsheim. June Goodyear makes the occasion of Hessentag also stopped at the airport Reichelsheim.
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tRANSLATION IS ODDLY WRONG: TRANSLATES mETERS TO fEET AS 1:1. If a more realistic ratio, 3:1 and a bit, is used, the drops get considerably scarier.
Tragic event! Pilot suddenly found himself way far up S. Creek with no chance for a paddle.
RIP
Tragic event! Pilot suddenly found himself way far up S. Creek with no chance for a paddle.
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horrific pictures found here on another German site...
I had taken pictures and filmed it on Saturday....
so sad....
I had taken pictures and filmed it on Saturday....
so sad....
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I have asked PPT to put this thread back to R & N and merged with the second thread that has now started there.
The tragic death of a pilot, especially in these circumstances, is not a subject for Jet Blast, I feel.
The tragic death of a pilot, especially in these circumstances, is not a subject for Jet Blast, I feel.
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It was mentioned in Dunnunder forum, with the following link:
Goodyear Blimp Crash in Germany
Warning: disturbing pictures of the aircraft aflame.
Goodyear Blimp Crash in Germany
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OFSO says:
Sorry bout that Cap'n. One was briefly but conspicuously incapacitated, as it were.
Guess the idea of reporting distances in error by a factor of 3 doesna get yer goat -- possibly that'd be why proximity warning systems have gotten so popular in the EU lately?
One woulda thunk it were a capital offense to substitute 50 feet for a hundred fifty in such a report -- the one iffy for a jump and the other not so good at all.
Unhappy the result, any way one counts it. "Sad" says it truly.
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Sorry bout that Cap'n. One was briefly but conspicuously incapacitated, as it were.
Guess the idea of reporting distances in error by a factor of 3 doesna get yer goat -- possibly that'd be why proximity warning systems have gotten so popular in the EU lately?
One woulda thunk it were a capital offense to substitute 50 feet for a hundred fifty in such a report -- the one iffy for a jump and the other not so good at all.
Unhappy the result, any way one counts it. "Sad" says it truly.
