[Scan-DC] Another plane "crash" in Manassas

[b_thom@juno.com]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 12:06:45 -0400 (EDT) Justin D Osborn
<jdosborn@wam.umd.edu> writes:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, XLTBOB wrote:
> 
> > one was injured, the pilot was the only occupant. This
> > time I was close enough (since I was driving the first
> > in pumper) to get the landing on videotape...
> 
> You were driving the first-due pumper and you were video taping at 
> the
> *same time* ??  I'm trying to picture someone videotaping a plane 
> crash
> while driving a fire engine... :-)

It's easy, if he was not simultaneously driving and taping. Have you ever
seen the tape of the two guys who got in the Audi sedan and sped along
under the small aircraft with landing gear problems? The driver drove,
the passenger stood up through the sunroof, and a videographer made a
video. The guy in the passenger's seat wiggled the reluctant gear loose,
and the plane landed safely. Great tape. It has been on Fox's "Most
Amazing Videos," or "When Planes Go Bad," or whatever they call it when
it shows.