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I just saw a plane crash

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Sklar
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I was driving to pick up my skis from the shop, and my dad, who was in the passenger seat, saw something flaming falling from the sky. It had a parachute attached to it so we thought it was a smoke jump gone wrong or something like that, but i guess it was a plane.
Not my video, but here it is

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kind of crazy
Sparknotes: I saw a plane crash
Feb 6 2010 4:47PM
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Sklar
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take 2
Feb 6 2010 4:47PM
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An10a_Eng
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i saw a banner plane crash into the ocean in south carolina
Feb 6 2010 4:47PM
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dunkaroos
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seriously? thats nuts
Feb 6 2010 4:48PM
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prontocuts.com
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i love how most small planes have parachutes now
Feb 6 2010 4:50PM
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@fterbang
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Wow that's crazy, was anyone hurt?
Feb 6 2010 4:51PM
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popNfresh44
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what the fuck,....any idea what kind of aircraft it was?
Feb 6 2010 4:51PM
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BravoWhiskey5280
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Was this in CO. Guessing it was because of 9 news?
Feb 6 2010 4:52PM
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dave44
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Looks like a glider to me - I doubt a parachute would be able to handle a plane's weight, plus, I've never heard of a plane designed with a parachute, while I can imagine gliders could be...

Pretty crazy though.
Feb 6 2010 4:53PM
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andrew.ski
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Cirrus sr22. ^^ has a parachute on it so if they go into a flat spin or something they cant get out of then the parachutes deploys and they fall to safety like gentle little snow flakes. It actually saved on of my friends.
Feb 6 2010 4:55PM
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prontocuts.com
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alot of small planes have parachutes
Feb 6 2010 4:57PM
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prontocuts.com
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And why would a glider be smoking?
Feb 6 2010 4:57PM
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dave44
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You do get motor gliders, used for takeoff.
Feb 6 2010 4:59PM
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Sklar
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It was in Boulder
No word on injuries yet, hopefully everyone is safe
Feb 6 2010 5:02PM
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prontocuts.com
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Alot of gliders get assisted by small gas powered aircraft, and most if not all motor propelled gliders are electric, the black smoke pouring out of that thing was not of any smoke that could be produced by an electric motor.

myth busted
Feb 6 2010 5:03PM
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Sklar
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Update:

4 people died in the crash

story from 9News

BOULDER - Four people are dead after a mid-air collision over Boulder where a plane hit a tow line that was pulling a glider.

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Former NTSB investigator Greg Feith says three of the people who were killed were on a Cirrus plane that hit a tow cable that was behind another plane. That cable was pulling a glider.

At least one person on the tow plane was also killed.

The glider landed safely after the cable was cut.

Feith says there are survivors, but it is not clear if any were on either of the planes.

The crash happened around 1:30 p.m. on Saturday.

Both planes went down in Boulder County open space, but the crash sites are separated from each other by a ridge.

Amateur video sent to 9NEWS shows something smoking with a parachute falling to the ground. Witnesses also report seeing fires on the ground in the area.

The video was taken by Hugh Walton of Boulder. His home is about a half mile from the crash site.

"I realized this is a plane with a person in it and I thought, 'Oh, that is not good,'" Walton told 9NEWS. "I was just leaving my neighborhood and I saw some riders, some cyclists, pull over to the side of the road and they were pointing and looking up. So I glanced over my shoulder and I saw some smoke and some flames going on way up in the sky."

Walton's wife says she heard a boom right above their house around the time of the crash.


I just saw 4 people died pretty much, i didn't see them collide, but still sketchy


Feb 6 2010 5:06PM
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skiierman
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planes with parachutes? the world has just gotten way less exciting...
Feb 6 2010 5:06PM
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JahJahBinks
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That is nuts.
Feb 6 2010 5:10PM
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statuswhitegirl
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diggin the icon
Feb 6 2010 5:11PM
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Logey.
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if there was no parachute they probably wouldnt have gotten a video. so would you rather see a video of it crashing or reading an artical about it crashing?
Feb 6 2010 5:14PM
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@fterbang
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Some kid just saw 3 people died, and you have to comment on my icon? On a less serious note change your icon.
Feb 6 2010 5:31PM
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@fterbang
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Id rather the plane not crash, or it land safely and no one get hurt. Come on people this isnt a matter of entertainment. The media has made people less sensitive to death. Please stop and think about what would happen if this was your family in the plane. Would you want there to be a parachute or an obituary?
Feb 6 2010 5:34PM
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LO_GO
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wtf thats epic crazy.
Feb 6 2010 5:36PM
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k-rob
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it would probably make me want to fuck underage girls.
Feb 6 2010 5:39PM
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@fterbang
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what the fuck? Is that supposed to be funny to all your dick riding nsg followers?
Feb 6 2010 5:41PM
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k-rob
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naw mang i just like fucking underage girls and being insensitive.
Feb 6 2010 5:43PM
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anxju
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what happens if they rodeo?
Feb 6 2010 5:44PM
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skiierman
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very true. i think they should invent a beacon that sends off a signal to everyone's cell within video range right when the plane is experiencing problems.
Feb 6 2010 5:45PM
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@fterbang
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What time are you and chad chilling tonight?
Feb 6 2010 5:48PM
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@fterbang
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What time are you and chad chilling tonight?
Feb 6 2010 5:49PM
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k-rob
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you best be trollin mr. usernameisafterbangbutcallspeoplefollowersandwonderswhypeoplerespondwithinsenseitivepedophiliawhenhisiconisfuckingpedobearfromfucking4chan.
Feb 6 2010 5:55PM
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k-rob
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...isfuckingpedobearfrom4chan.
Feb 6 2010 5:56PM
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@fterbang
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theres a time and a place for everything,just because your on the internet doesnt change that mr k rob
Feb 6 2010 5:59PM
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k-rob
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go fuck yourself you weird little prick.
Feb 6 2010 6:01PM
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@fterbang
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Your calling me a weird little prick? whos the one that said they like to have sex with underage girls on a thread where someone witnessed a plane crash. /discussion
Feb 6 2010 6:04PM
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@fterbang
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I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not, so there isn't anything wrong with spontaneously stating he likes having sex with underage girls? I just don't think he is the one to call me a "weird little prick".
Feb 6 2010 6:11PM
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k-rob
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you're the one who said people were being insensitive while you still had your pro-pedophilia icon from the most insensitive place on the internet. you weird little prick.
Feb 6 2010 6:11PM
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Sklar
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quit bitchin at each other

Its up to 5 deaths now, +vibes to the families

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BOULDER - 9NEWS has learned that five people are dead after a mid-air collision over Boulder where one plane pulling a glider was hit by another on Saturday afternoon.

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Former NTSB investigator Greg Feith says four of the people who were killed were on a Cirrus plane that hit the other plane, a Piper Pawnee. That plane had a cable strung out behind that was pulling a glider.

One person on the tow plane was also killed. Mile High Gliding confirms that person was one of their pilots.

Rick Brough with the Boulder County Sheriff's Office says the glider unhooked from the cable just before the crash and landed safely.

Feith says the person on the glider was the only survivor. It is unclear if there was more than one person in the glider.

The crash happened around 1:30 p.m. on Saturday not far from the Boulder Municipal Airport. The collision appeared to be over the US 36 and Broadway area.

Both planes went down in Boulder County open space, but the crash sites are separated from each other by a ridge. The debris field is over several miles and authorities are searching for pieces of the planes, including the sections with the tail numbers on them.

Amateur video sent to 9NEWS shows something smoking with a parachute falling to the ground. Witnesses also report seeing fires on the ground in the area.

The video was taken by Hugh Walton of Boulder. His home is about a half mile from the crash site.

"I realized this is a plane with a person in it and I thought, 'Oh, that is not good,'" Walton told 9NEWS. "I was just leaving my neighborhood and I saw some riders, some cyclists, pull over to the side of the road and they were pointing and looking up. So I glanced over my shoulder and I saw some smoke and some flames going on way up in the sky."

Walton's wife says she heard a boom right above their house around the time of the crash.

According to Feith, the Cirrus aircraft has a "ballistic parachute" that can be fired as a rocket. He says pilots use it as an emergency safety device to try and stop the plane from crashing. It is unclear if the pilot activated the parachute or if it fired off on its own.

Feith says no one at the airport heard the pilot of the Cirrus call in to Boulder Municipal Airport before the crash. That would mean the pilot of the Piper Pawnee may not have known about the Cirrus.


Feb 6 2010 6:25PM
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mr_grom
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That looks like a deatheater arriving to me.

But seriously that's pretty crazy.

Feb 6 2010 7:04PM
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robtheslobonacob
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"Feith says there are survivors, but it is not clear if any were on either of the planes."

^am i that stoned or does that not make any sense
Feb 6 2010 7:09PM
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Logey.
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haha agreed!
Feb 6 2010 7:11PM
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k-rob
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it makes perfect sense, because i survived and i wasn't on either of the planes.
Feb 6 2010 7:14PM
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Drail
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yea... or you're too sensitive to death.

if I were to think it was my family every time I hear on the news of someone dying, I would probably live a very very depressed life and have no friends.
Feb 6 2010 7:19PM
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Lemuel
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Haha I was thinking the same thing when I read the article. 

Also, the person in the glider was the only survivor, but it was unclear if there was someone else in it?  Seriously? 
Feb 6 2010 7:39PM
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ScuffDUFF
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damn scary shit.  I have spent alot of time in small aircrafts.  I trust my pilot but its always scary to think you could just be flying along and another idiot pilot could end up just flying rite into you.    Flying is the shit though.
Feb 6 2010 8:13PM
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DrZoidberg
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Alright, here's what I don't get. Why wouldn't the pilot/passengers of a small aircraft have the parachutes? Why die in a burning, slowly falling plane when you could quickly escape by jumping out with a chute. I guess the plane's parachute stops it from being a missile and killing people, but give the people chutes too.
Feb 6 2010 8:38PM
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pianoman
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and what confuses me is that it says the glider unhooked before the crash but seems to imply everywhere else that the plane crashed into the cable that was connecting the other plane with the glider.
Feb 6 2010 9:14PM
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@fterbang
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I had a dancing bear that i looked up on from google images. I didnt realize it was a peda bear or whatever you call it. Thanks.
Feb 7 2010 12:34AM
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theabortionator
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official word is no one was injured. The plane belonged to chalie sheen. His wife stole it and crashed it to get back at him
Feb 7 2010 12:49AM
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SteezyOhio
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you seem sensitive. ......
I like the smell of burning jew in the morning.
mexican people arn't good for anything.
middle eastern terrorists should be used as tnt in the construction industry.
aborted babies should be used by the nhl as ice hockey pucks.
asian people are only good for making my nike apparel, making fast azn food, and driving taxi's.
if i could i'd have sex with squirrels.
my penis is longer then and elephants trunk and i had it in your mom last night.

i'm sorry NS im gonna get some ban hammer time, rowen take mercy. i'll miss you for this short time, but i had this stuff i just came up with, and im totally gone lol.
Feb 7 2010 12:49AM
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SteezyOhio
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i must just be that stonedd.......
Feb 7 2010 12:53AM
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