Oh dear, it looks like an
articulated lorry has rolled over near Bismark. I hope no-one
was hurt.
You can almost make out the advertising logo across the side,
does anyone recognise it?
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If, for some weird reason, you enjoy seeing traffic accidents
from above, you’ll love our previous post
9 (Possible) Traffic Accidents.
Thanks: http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/834933/page/
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Deep in the Mojave desert, there’s
some sort of aircraft which looks as if it crashed and was left
to rot. So how did it come to be here?
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There’s a military airfield to the east,
Camp Wilson, so it’s possible the aircraft came from there -
but why would they just leave it in the middle of the desert?
Of interest is that this location is very close to (that famed
magnet of extra-terrestrial activity) Giant
Rock. There’s even more airstrips just south east of the crash
site at
Outlying Field Seagle, where two of the strips are abandoned
but http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_SanBernardino_SE.htm#seagle
apparently the third is still in operation. Most interestingly,
the Xs at each end of the runway indicates that no-one should try
to land here, as it’s used exclusively by unmanned
aircraft…
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Thanks to Shane McGillacutty.
Nestled within the trees of this suburban park is a
crashed plane, that’s been there since
1985!
The story goes that the pilot ran out of fuel over the city of
Sao Jose dos Campos and was forced to land in the small park. Then,
for some unknown reason, the Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia was never
removed.
Embraer’s headquarters are actually located just down the road
from the crash site, but it’s not a very good advertisement for
their products…
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Updated: It would seem that this plane didn’t
crash after all, it is a prototype model of the Embraer 110
Bandeirante on permanent display. You can see ground-level pictures
on http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0699743/M/ airliners.net
and http://www.flickr.com/photos/psouva/376877637/ Flickr.
Thanks: Cerávolo & Marc
On the 19th of June 2005, a Mahfooz Aviation Boeing 707-347C
crashed while landing at
Addis Ababa-Bole Airport in Ethiopia. Luckily all 5 crew
survived, but the aircraft was written off.
Although I could be wrong (hey, it’s happened before), I believe
that this Google Earth satellite photo shows the wreckage of that
exact crashed plane!
So, what’s my proof? Firstly, the satellite photo is dated as
November 2005 and the June crash is the only Addis Ababa-Bole
Airport incident listed on the http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20050619-1&lang=en
Aviation Safety Network for the whole of 2005.
For further proof I measured the wingspan of the crashed plane
using the Google Earth ruler, and it more or less matches the 44.42
m wingspan of a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_707 707-320B.
Anyone able to prove me wrong (or even right)?
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