CNN crash video as capture by USCG

Apparently the Coast Guard has some sort of video camera running
that captured the impact of the Cirrus against the building.
CNN has posted it on their website under "Watch Video".
The video is of poor quality but you can definitely see the explosion upon
impact.

David

The link to the video on CNN is a directly below the article on the
Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan that
have stumbled across an almost impenetrable forests of marijuana plants 10
feet tall.

Forest? Stumble?

What would Forest Gump do?

I watched the video last night. The explosion is visible, but the aircraft
prior to impact is not visible, at least to my eyes. I watched it several
times.

What I was looking for was whether the aircraft was doing aerobatic manuvers
or not. The eyewitnesses said acrobatic, and the news geeks kept repeating
acrobatic. Mayor Bloomburg said it right, since he's a pilot.

First it was a helicopter or an airplane, then a cessna and finally a
Cirrus. The newsroom computers must not have a Fact-Checker along with the
Spell-Checker. At least they didn't say a four seat Piper Cub. I've heard
that before.
ron


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Apparently the Coast Guard has some sort of video camera running
that captured the impact of the Cirrus against the building.
CNN has posted it on their website under "Watch Video".
The video is of poor quality but you can definitely see the explosion upon
impact.

David





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Ron Snipes wrote:

What I was looking for was whether the aircraft was doing aerobatic manuvers
or not. The eyewitnesses said acrobatic, and the news geeks kept repeating
acrobatic.

I discounted those reports the moment I heard them, since loss of control
could easily be mistaken for aerobatics to the untrained eye.

Unfortunately, one of the first sound bites on CNN was that of an otherwise
astute eyewitness who was supposedly a pilot. He stated that it looked to
him like the aircraft was doing aerobatics just before the crash.

Coming from a pilot, that was the absolute wrong thing to say, given the
implications of the comment to the general, non-GA experienced public.

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Peter R. wrote:

I discounted those reports the moment I heard them, since loss of control

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could easily be mistaken for aerobatics to the untrained eye.

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What in your opinion is the average human IQ? 30?

Ramapriya

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What in your opinion is the average human IQ? 30?

The average IQ is exactly 100.

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Peter R. wrote:

I discounted those reports the moment I heard them, since loss of control

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could easily be mistaken for aerobatics to the untrained eye.

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What in your opinion is the average human IQ? 30?


What does IQ matter to a matter of naiveté?

Matt Barrow wrote:

What does IQ matter to a matter of naiveté?


It's imho the only thing that matters. The reasoning of an event/action
is fundamentally reliant on whether a person has
subnormal/normal/above-normal IQ.

If the hordes of acrobatics videos I've seen are anything to go by, not
one maneuver has appeared comparable to the equally large number of
crash videos seen. That acrobatic maneuvers are controlled is easy
enough for anyone normal to tell. And in the event in question here, it
wasn't as if an F-16 (where one might not have known for sure whether
it was out of control) streaked across the sky and crashed but a small
aircraft!

Ramapriya

Peter R. wrote:
I discounted those reports the moment I heard them, since loss of control
could easily be mistaken for aerobatics to the untrained eye.

I remember once I was cruising down the freeway and saw a small plane
spiralling out of control at high speed, heading straight for the
ground. I would've screamed, but my breath was already sucked out of my
lungs. Then at the last second, the plane was able to pull up
miraculously. Then I realized that it was a stunt plane doing
acrobatics. But seriously, I wonder how many other drivers were
thinking the same thing and if it caused any accidents.

The moral of this story is that aerobatics could easily be mistaken for
loss of control to the untrained eye. =)

Bucky writes:

The moral of this story is that aerobatics could easily be mistaken for
loss of control to the untrained eye. =)

Impact with a building is usually a pretty good criterion for
distinguishing between aerobatics and bad flying.

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