Three killed in horrible irony accident

[CHNOPS]

3 pilots killed en route to FAA safety conference

 

[tactful]

For a minute there, I thought it was going to be a Chinese laundry accident, bummer.

 

[SkAoUt]

Yeah, I thought at least a steel mill or iron worker.

More of an aluminumy accident really.

 

[CHNOPS]

I just rlealized the worst part: there is going to be no one available to investigate the accident for at least the next three days.

 

[Wings]

That's really the worst part?

 

[thør]

I can't imagine that they'd run out of fuel. I can imagine that the fuel filter was plugged or they had water in the fuel.

 

[mark_j]

That's really the worst part?

Awww come on... if you can't laugh at death, what can you laugh at?

 

[evesdream]

Awww come on... if you can't laugh at death, what can you laugh at?

JRW, Warrior Queen and ScottyX.

 

[evernoob]

Awww come on... if you can't laugh at death, what can you laugh at?

Great googly moogly, a mark_j sighting!

*gigglehug*

Where have you been, you crazy wonderful man?

 

[mark_j]

Great googly moogly, a mark_j sighting!

*gigglehug*

Where have you been, you crazy wonderful man?

Lurking about, tending horses, fixing fences, trying to get my young thoroughbred trained this year..

That sort of stuff.

 

[CHNOPS]

That's really the worst part?

Unless I'm way off here and it turns out these were real people with families and friends, and not just characters in some convenient punchline created to serve me, then yes.

 

[Wings]

Unless I'm way off here and it turns out these were real people with families and friends, and not just characters in some convenient punchline created to serve me, then yes.

Oh good! Until then we shall sip and dine in the name of being merry.

 

[CHNOPS]

I fear that now my super-funny "I guess they didn't get very FAA!" joke won't be met with the kind of universal approval I have come to enjoy.

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

daaaamn

 

[Wings]

What I MEANT to say was...oh Sonny, you so crazy-funny.


Also, I wonder who did their pre-flight checklist.

 

[ryan8558]

The conference was 30 miles away. Should have driven.

 

[warrior queen]

The conference was 30 miles away. Should have driven.

The irony there is you are many times more likely to die in a road accident than in an air crash