Find a Job Dating Wine Our Papers Feedback My Stories Tuesday, Jun 14 2011 6AM 73°F 9AM 71°F 5-Day Forecast Pilot killed after helping three passengers to make incredible escape as Goodyear blimp plunges to the ground in flames

A Goodyear blimp burst into flames and plunged to earth in a weekend crash in Germany.

The pilot was killed but three passengers managed to jump to safety when the airship caught fire as it was coming in to land at the Reichelsheim aerodrome near Friedberg.

When the airship was just six metres from the floor, the pilot told his passengers, all journalists, to jump to the ground while he tried to land safely.

Once the three had leapt clear of the blimp he took it back up before being it became overwhelmed by flames and crashed to the earth, in a chilling echo of the Hindenburg disaster.

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Bag of Randomness

  • Yesterday after the evening news I hit a wall (no Jimi, not literally).  All my favorite shows are in rerun status, and the Mavs have no more games left to play.  There’s no “next game to prepare for” anymore.  I’m sad.  Yeah, there’s the Rangers, but the intensity isn’t there.
  • Cuban says he wants to do something other than rings.  I have a feeling a bunch of very large men over six feet tall and 200lbs are going to change his mind.
  • If you think about it, the Fab Five and the Miami Heat have a lot in common . . . awesome talent, arrogance, Juan Howard.
  • It looks like Dallas was able to celebrate a championship without overturning cars, looting, or setting things on fire.  We’re acting like we’ve been there before.  But I bet if the Cowboys ever win a Super Bowl, you’ll see some ‘negative’ celebrating.
  • Bill Simmons is starting to grow on me again.  Maybe it’s because he’s writing about the NBA Finals and my hometeam is playing in it, or maybe because he’s writing for a new website somewhat loosely tied to ESPN called Grantland.com.
  • Dirk’s home got decorated while he was away winning a championship in Miami.  I like how someone left him a six pack of Shiner.
  • Don Carter got his house wrapped.
  • I bet Dirk plays better next year because he’ll be playing without a monkey on his back.
  • Per the Gov: Mavericks and their fans honorary Ohioans for a day – Hey, for a kid who always wanted to visit that state because that’s where his father grew up, that means a lot.
  • Did I go out and buy a bunch of championship gear yesterday?  Nope.  I guess that’s a sign of aging.  But I did buy a newspaper to keep and add to my Dallas championship collection.
  • An interesting post about how members of the local media got the Mavs all wrong and should be eating humble pie.  And who could blame them when the Mavs lost to the Lakes two weeks before the playoffs 110-82.
  • After legal dispute, two Miss San Antonio head to Texas pageant
  • The world’s first womb transplant is planned with a mother giving her womb to her daughter.  That’s right, the womb in which the daughter was carried will soon be inside her so she can possibly give birth to a child.
  • A gigantic topless Jennifer Aniston poster hangs on the side of a parking garage in Dallas.
  • Qaddafi wrote a thank you letter to the U.S. Congress recently.
  • Airbus Unveils Images And Plans For A Transparent Airplane In The Year 2050 – I always thought it was a bit odd that planes haven’t really changed shape or design over the decades.
  • Why you should always sleep with a teddy bar.
  • Today is actually a difficult day for me.  Only a few will know why.
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