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news.bbc.co.uk — A double-decker sports plane has crashed into a car after plunging from the air. The pilot was performing aerial acrobatic manoeuvres and struck the family car, which was parked on a road near the airfield.

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  • Dustmuffins, on 07/15/2009, -1/+87This isn't a "double-decker". It's a bi-plane. It has two wings, not two decks.
  • JMScheib, on 07/15/2009, -0/+35Didn't drop out of the sky. Pilot recovered from the spin too late and didn't have enough time to regain altitude. The pilot pushed his limits. Glad to see he's alive though.
  • GodAImighty, on 07/14/2009, -1/+31Classic tailspin stall, pilot must have yawed too must while diving. Looks like the pilot actually recovered from the spin just before hitting the ground, but couldn't level off in time.
  • EnderWiggin, on 07/15/2009, -3/+29"Clearly guardian angels had a hand in the outcome"

    Clearly, it definitely wasn't just the skill and luck of the pilot correcting from a stall and crashing the best he could.
  • chinaman1212, on 07/14/2009, -3/+28that happened to me once. my wife says its o.k. and it happens to everyone at some time.
  • DeskFlyer, on 07/14/2009, -1/+21Yanked the yoke just a bit too hard on the recovery. He almost had it.
  • bigal590, on 07/15/2009, -6/+24"'Clearly guardian angels had a hand in the outcome', Grossostheim police said in a statement about the incident."

    You would think those "guardian angels" would have prevented the crash in the first place.
  • inactive, on 07/15/2009, -2/+14Come on, they were all the way over in Africa starving people, they got there as fast as they could.
  • MrMeikel, on 07/15/2009, -1/+10Yea I thought that sounded weird...
  • chriswastaken, on 10/27/2009, -0/+9i think the guy deserves credit, the plane was pointing downwards, traveling at 80+ mph and not one person went to the hospital.
  • emecks, on 07/14/2009, -4/+12Damn, this is the second small airplane accident video I've submitted today - I hope it's not tempting fate!!

    *This one just happened by the look of things
  • memper, on 07/15/2009, -0/+8verdammt! verdammt! verdammt!




    ...scheisse
  • 4AntiStupid, on 07/15/2009, -0/+8No falling out of the sky there...that was clearly "flying too close to the ground." Amazing no serious injuries.

  • DemDude, on 07/15/2009, -1/+8Holy *****, those guys on the bikes probably had to change pants after that.

    Also, try explaining that to the insurance people... "You got hit by what?!"
  • shiftkgb, on 07/15/2009, -0/+7Your response is humorous.
  • taylorp36, on 07/15/2009, -0/+6http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrO7tHeorgQ&fea ...
  • emecks, on 07/15/2009, -1/+6It was written by the BBC... perhaps the writer travels to work on a double decker bus and got confused, poor old chap :)
  • Jeepinator, on 07/15/2009, -1/+6I thought that was stupid as well. I almost skipped over the word plane and assumed it was a bus. Also, what the hell is a "sports" plane. I've never even heard that term used before. I mean you have your aerobatic planes and your commuter planes.
  • Whackly, on 07/15/2009, -0/+4wtf
  • DeadFox1, on 07/15/2009, -0/+4from the article: " The pilot also suffered minor injuries but was not hospitalised either. "
  • Gndoab, on 07/15/2009, -0/+4missed it. thanks
  • threon, on 07/15/2009, -1/+5Your wife told me the same thing.
  • 0biKwiet, on 07/15/2009, -1/+4Geeze that guy was lucky.
  • t0ny, on 07/15/2009, -0/+3I think his spin was intentional but it lasted longer then he wanted.
  • Wareznuke, on 07/15/2009, -1/+4How about this for a title, "German biplane performing a stunt crashes on moving car and miraculously all survived."
  • Whackly, on 07/15/2009, -2/+5Agreed. That pilot regaining control is all about training and the mentality needed to delay panic and process the immediate threat. That's not god, that's muscle memory and adrenaline.
  • elindell, on 07/15/2009, -0/+3"...you never know what you're capable of. I never thought I could shoot down a German plane, but last year I proved myself wrong." - Grandpa Simpson
  • zbeast, on 07/15/2009, -0/+3Don't feel bad I missed it too..The writer spent to much time
    talking about the people in the car and almost as an
    after though says. Oh ya, the pilot just got scratches and
    didn't have to go to the hospital.
  • duggtodeath, on 07/15/2009, -0/+3Another dramatic angle of the classic tailspin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIl5YwcO72g
  • Sanfranon5, on 07/15/2009, -0/+2That will teach those cyclists to stay to the right.
  • bdpf, on 07/15/2009, -2/+4The title is wrong, not a double-decker!

    Say guys that is a biplane. Darn Dustmuffins, posted correction first.

    See the photos of Kitty Hawk and the Wright brothers. Biplanes were use during and after WW I, through WW II, to present day.

    A double-decker is a English bus or hamburger!
  • Jeepinator, on 07/15/2009, -0/+2So a sports plane is either an aerobatic plane or a racing plane, which are pretty similar. Look at the Extra 300S. It gets raced and gets used for aerobatics.
  • BenBenMan, on 07/15/2009, -0/+2"...and if a double-decker plane, crashes into us, to die by your side, is such a heavenly way to die..."
  • anthropodeus, on 07/15/2009, -0/+2FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
  • BinaryFragger, on 07/15/2009, -2/+3You guys complain all the time about religious people, yet you never miss an opportunity to bash religion. Gotta love the Digg double standards.
  • anthropodeus, on 07/15/2009, -0/+1read the sixth post.
  • anthropodeus, on 07/15/2009, -1/+2@TobiasParker
    obvious troll is obvious
  • fragMasterFlash, on 07/15/2009, -0/+1And the only casualty was the pilots heavily bricked underpants.
  • inactive, on 07/15/2009, -0/+1The volume control goes up to 11!
  • tgc1, on 07/15/2009, -1/+2Any landing you can walk away from... and all that.
  • Velnich, on 07/15/2009, -0/+1was a "/s" really necessary?
  • webadelic, on 07/15/2009, -0/+1Straf those cars, bikes and people ! haha
  • jpenn, on 07/15/2009, -0/+1Gravity - ONE
    Bernelli's Principal - ZERO
  • inactive, on 07/15/2009, -0/+1Catching your flight....you're doing it wrong.
  • nawitus, on 07/15/2009, -0/+1I think he took the WW2 act a bit too seriously.
  • valleyman86, on 07/15/2009, -2/+3Thank god he knew what he was doing... /s
  • MacBandit, on 07/15/2009, -0/+1His motor was sputtering.
  • Disgod, on 07/15/2009, -2/+3"... works in ways "that have precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.."

    FTFY

    /shameless jacked the last half of that.
  • RGSPro, on 07/15/2009, -0/+1I'm surprised he wanted to go into a spin at such a low altitude. He did pull back too much and increased his angle of attack past the plane's Clmax, but he was too close to the ground to not be pitching for altitude without hurting someone.
  • Nothlit, on 07/15/2009, -1/+2When you are in a stall/spin, pulling up is only going to make things worse.
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