Vintage Jet Slams Into Homes Near Air Show

"Emily" wrote in message
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Yes, it did strike, it did impact, and it did collide.

Yet the media uses the word slammed.

Then what the hell difference does it make? Slammed is a dramatic, active
verb. All writers who paid attention in writing classes learned to avoid
weak verbs. If a jet plane flying into a house, exploding, incinerating the
house and leaving nothing but a smoking ruin -isn't- "slamming" into
something, nothing is.

Your opinion that "slammed" is subjective is subjective.

You know, I grew up with a couple of military officers for parents, who
viewed the media as a necessary evil.

Pilots are frequently of the arrogant opinion that the media somehow owes
them something. They just don't. Journalists earn livings and reputations
by writing vivid, truthful accounts. There is nothing untruthful about the
FACT that the jet SLAMMED INTO the house and no reason why a
journalist--especially after the treatment observed in this forum--should
feel an obligation to sugarcoat it for the sensitivies of the aviation
community.

A community journalist's job is to report to the community what happened.
Mission accomplished. Your sensibilities about what words is insignificant
compared whatever memories, pets or possessions the property holder lost
because of the accident. And the media has been calling it a tragic accident
AND calling the pilot a hero since it happened, so I don't see the point of
whining about media insensitivity.

-gatt

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 23:13:48 +0000, gatt wrote:

Er, if that's too incriminating
or something, let's just say it combusted?

Engaged in an uncontained but brief exothermic event?

The entire house is gone.

House has received the beginning of a complete reconstruction. For free!

Almost no wreckage of the house remained an hour afterward, let alone the
plane.

The event was sanitary.

- Andrew

Sounds like the houses were incinerated when that jet slammed into them...


;-)


"Skylune" wrote in message
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by "Robert M. Gary" Jul 17, 2006 at 10:50 AM


So it "slams" in to a house vs. just "crashed" into a house.



Critical distinction there. (Somewhere...) One home completely
destroyed. Two others aflame.

"gatt" wrote in message
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For perspective, somebody died in the Sandy River again yesterday. I
mentioned to my wife that this old man augured his jet and died doing
something he loved after living a long, successful life.

I seriously doubt he loved losing control, knowing he was going to crash and
that his life was about to end.

gatt wrote:
"Emily" wrote in message
. ..

Yes, it did strike, it did impact, and it did collide.

Yet the media uses the word slammed.

Then what the hell difference does it make? Slammed is a dramatic, active
verb. All writers who paid attention in writing classes learned to avoid
weak verbs. If a jet plane flying into a house, exploding, incinerating the
house and leaving nothing but a smoking ruin -isn't- "slamming" into
something, nothing is.

Your opinion that "slammed" is subjective is subjective.

You know, I grew up with a couple of military officers for parents, who
viewed the media as a necessary evil.

Pilots are frequently of the arrogant opinion that the media somehow owes
them something. They just don't. Journalists earn livings and reputations
by writing vivid, truthful accounts.


Truthful? That's debateable.

Sorry, I killfiled you before I read the rest of your drivel. Idiot.

"Emily" wrote in message
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Sorry, I killfiled you before I read the rest of your drivel. Idiot.

In other words, she can't handle an opposing opinion, couldn't think of a
way to argue like an adult, so she stuck her fingers in her ears and
resorted to name calling.

Whatever. I'm an idiot. With a degree in journalism and a passion for
aviation. I couldn't possibly have a little perspective on this issue. I
must just be an idiot because I disagree with her.

No skin off my back at all. I prefer to associate with mature adults.

-c

"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
news
Er, if that's too incriminating or something, let's just say it
combusted?

Engaged in an uncontained but brief exothermic event?

The entire house is gone.

House has received the beginning of a complete reconstruction. For free!

Almost no wreckage of the house remained an hour afterward, let alone the
plane.

The event was sanitary.

LOL!

"A vintage jet suffered an engine problem today and caused mild damage to
three homes after an unscheduled off-runway touch down. The pilot expired
at the scene and a slight conflagration caused a fireball and a small cloud
of smoke to extend thousands of feet into the air. The damage to the house
is comprehensive and the resultant pyrotechnic event resulted in a
Three-Alarm on the job training exercise for local fire departments..."

Several aviators nationwide are seeking help for being slightly inconvience
by the mejia's choice of the word 'slammed'

-c

"gatt" wrote in message
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It didn't strike, it didn't impact, it didn't bounce off of, it didn't
land on, they didn't collide...it smashed into the friggin house.


Now you've gone and confused the whole issue! Did it "Slam" into the house,
or did it "Smash" into the house?
Crash Lander

"Crash Lander" wrote in message
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It didn't strike, it didn't impact, it didn't bounce off of, it didn't
land on, they didn't collide...it smashed into the friggin house.

Now you've gone and confused the whole issue! Did it "Slam" into the
house, or did it "Smash" into the house?

I dunno, but this mejia sensationalism all started when some fool screamed
"OH, THE HUMANITY" during an unscheduled blimp unpleasantness.

The die was cast. Now, every time friggin' fighter jet falls into a
neighborhood and bounces off a gutter, douses everything with jet fuel and
then ignites, it's a "fire" and the airplane "struck" the house. Just
because the house was instantly crushed, consumed by fire and incinerated
doesn't mean the airplane "slammed into" it. That's, like, subjective and
stuff.

It -figuratively- slammed into the house. More accurately, it lost power,
drilled into the house, exploded, blew the house to hell and gone, blew most
of the house next to it away, blew a fireball thousands of feet into the air
and required three fire departments to extinguish the homes burning around
the crash site. But it sure didn't -slam- into anything, did it?

And, gawdam, it wasn't a "vintage jet." It was "retired from active
military service."

-c

Dave Stadt wrote:
"gatt" wrote in message
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For perspective, somebody died in the Sandy River again yesterday. I
mentioned to my wife that this old man augured his jet and died doing
something he loved after living a long, successful life.


I seriously doubt he loved losing control, knowing he was going to crash and
that his life was about to end.

Which isn't what the above post said.

Matt