Sledding, hit a tree and almost broke my neck... hurts when i tilt it left still.
Last edited by 47man (2006-10-02 18:12:06)
Last edited by 47man (2006-10-02 18:12:06)
I was in Belize on vacation and bought a ticket from a local air carrier from Belize city to a small island off the coast where I was going to stay. It was getting late, they put me on the last flight out, we took off and flew into a rainstorm. Instead of turning around to land at the towered, lighted, international airport with a huge runway, our pilot decided it would be a good idea to try and land at the nontowered, unlighted, dirt strip, at night, in the middle of a rainstorm. Long story short, the pilot got lost and didn't pay attention to his instruments, we lost altitude until we hit the water at a shallow angle, and then everyone onboard (about 8-9 people) bailed out and we sat on top of the plane for about an hour until some of the locals came and picked us up in boats. Everyone walked away from it with no serious injuries, even a young child who was there with his parents. All in all, we were very, very lucky.BigmacK wrote:
!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?Skruples wrote:
I was in a plane crash. That's probably the closest to death I've ever been, by far.
Do tell!
Wow. What a noob pilot, I hope he got his license revoked permanently. Any pilot with half a brain would've realized that tryin to land at a dirt strip in IFR conditions would be hazardous. Well at least no one was hurt, and that's what counts.Skruples wrote:
I was in Belize on vacation and bought a ticket from a local air carrier from Belize city to a small island off the coast where I was going to stay. It was getting late, they put me on the last flight out, we took off and flew into a rainstorm. Instead of turning around to land at the towered, lighted, international airport with a huge runway, our pilot decided it would be a good idea to try and land at the nontowered, unlighted, dirt strip, at night, in the middle of a rainstorm. Long story short, the pilot got lost and didn't pay attention to his instruments, we lost altitude until we hit the water at a shallow angle, and then everyone onboard (about 8-9 people) bailed out and we sat on top of the plane for about an hour until some of the locals came and picked us up in boats. Everyone walked away from it with no serious injuries, even a young child who was there with his parents. All in all, we were very, very lucky.BigmacK wrote:
!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?Skruples wrote:
I was in a plane crash. That's probably the closest to death I've ever been, by far.
Do tell!
Wow, thats quite a story.Skruples wrote:
I was in Belize on vacation and bought a ticket from a local air carrier from Belize city to a small island off the coast where I was going to stay. It was getting late, they put me on the last flight out, we took off and flew into a rainstorm. Instead of turning around to land at the towered, lighted, international airport with a huge runway, our pilot decided it would be a good idea to try and land at the nontowered, unlighted, dirt strip, at night, in the middle of a rainstorm. Long story short, the pilot got lost and didn't pay attention to his instruments, we lost altitude until we hit the water at a shallow angle, and then everyone onboard (about 8-9 people) bailed out and we sat on top of the plane for about an hour until some of the locals came and picked us up in boats. Everyone walked away from it with no serious injuries, even a young child who was there with his parents. All in all, we were very, very lucky.BigmacK wrote:
!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?Skruples wrote:
I was in a plane crash. That's probably the closest to death I've ever been, by far.
Do tell!
Wow. I admire you very much, Imposed. My daughter was born with many complications and was also deaf. She got her cochliar implant when she was about 14 months old...she only weighed about 14 lbs too. She was the smallest child the doctor had ever operated on.ImposedThreat wrote:
I've almost died when I was a little kid walking on a frozen lake. There was a thin ice patch that was dark and I didn't know any better but I walked on it and fell through. I was with a couple of friends who tried to pull me out but couldn't. Luckily someone else witnessed it and called the cops. They arrived at the scene pretty fast and pulled me out.
I've also almost died when I got really sick with meningitis. That was not any fun at all. Now I'm deaf in both ears because of that and I now wear the cochlear implant.
You never had sex..Cougar wrote:
I had sex with a latina chick once who had just gotten her nails done.
I'm lucky to be here.
cpt.fass1 wrote:
You never had sex..Cougar wrote:
I had sex with a latina chick once who had just gotten her nails done.
I'm lucky to be here.
At first I laughed and then I went, "Oh. He's serious...."cpt.fass1 wrote:
I died when I was twelve, I was in a bike race in the summer time, got heat stroke road to the side and cracked my skull open on the curb. Was dead for about 2 mins I belive(Don't really know wasn't alive at the time) and woke up in the hospital with my mom freaking out above me.. It was real embarrasing it was in front of a girl that I had a crush on house and I pee'd and pooped myself. Needless to say I never got with her.. ha
Yeah it's true still funny...URE_DED wrote:
At first I laughed and then I went, "Oh. He's serious...."cpt.fass1 wrote:
I died when I was twelve, I was in a bike race in the summer time, got heat stroke road to the side and cracked my skull open on the curb. Was dead for about 2 mins I belive(Don't really know wasn't alive at the time) and woke up in the hospital with my mom freaking out above me.. It was real embarrasing it was in front of a girl that I had a crush on house and I pee'd and pooped myself. Needless to say I never got with her.. ha
Losser?Reciprocity wrote:
Four times:
1. born feet first
vehicles
2. dump truck nearly killed me while waiting in a turn lane. waiting to pull into a gas station, a van pulls out straight across the oncoming lane and stops, he's positioned facing my left shoulder. barreling down the oncoming lane is a loaded dump truck. he pulled into the turn lane to avoid the van and then at the last second, pulled into his oncoming lane around me and on he went. this all happened within about 7 seconds. In the moment, i was pissed(angry to our UK friends) more than anything that this guy in the truck chose to kill me rather than the asshole in the van.
3. too much fun in a Mercedes 500SL with cheap tires. spun out on a right turn going around 110mph. the ass end of the car swept into the oncoming lane right between a semi trailer and Ford f350 super duty. cuntinued spinning around at least 10 to 12 times. until it stopped in a grassy ditch. started the car, rocked it out of the ditch and drove home. no damage, just liquified grass covering one side of the car.
4. Quad on the Oregon sand dunes. nuff said.
I have to ask, was this dirt strip directly ahead of you guys, or did he make a turn?Skruples wrote:
Instead of turning around to land at the towered, lighted, international airport with a huge runway, our pilot decided it would be a good idea to try and land at the nontowered, unlighted, dirt strip, at night, in the middle of a rainstorm.