Hot Topics | |
---|---|
Coligny wrote:Seriously... How many people do they really need onboard for these kind of operations ?
Coligny wrote:And it's way more than the max number of people that can be carried... (5)
Socratesabroad wrote:Well, the AS365 N3 that crashed is supposed to carry 11 plus 2 pilots, so even if you subtract 3-4 passengers for the emergency equipment, winch, etc. there shouldn't have been any load problems.
Two Japanese journalists reported missing by their television network while pursuing a story of a helicopter crash were found dead on a mountain Sunday near the scene of the accident.
Nippon Television reporter Yuji Kita and cameraman Jun Kawakami were on their way to the scene of the crash that killed five people last weekend. The two men were unresponsive when found Sunday morning partially submerged in a pool of water in a gorge about 980 feet (300 meters) below a mountain trail in Chichibu city, roughly two hours northwest of Tokyo.
They were taken to a hospital and declared dead in the afternoon.
"I am filled with sadness that we lost two extremely talented and ambitious people," said Nippon Television President Tadanori Hosokawa at a press conference.
The network said it is investigating the accident and the journalists' preparations for the assignment.
The journalists began their trek Saturday morning, and Nippon Television said it contacted authorities after they did not return in the evening.
The area is not particularly dangerous for regular mountain climbing, said Kiyomitsu Yashiro, deputy chief of the Chichibu police department. But Kita, 30, and Kawakami, 43, appeared to have been scaling a steep gorge.
"It quite easy to hit branches or the surrounding walls, so you can assume accidents will occur," he said.
IkemenTommy wrote:First a woman dies after being missing in the woods... then a helicopter rescue crew to search for the woman fatally crashes... and then two Nittele boy scouts with minimal gear go out to report on the failed helicopter attempt to save the woman end up dead also.
I guess they learned this time to not send any more rescue choppers.
CrankyBastard wrote:Was talking with a neighbour earlier about these incidents, the guy is seriously convinced that the spirit of the first death is responsible for the others.
He said something about the period between the mid July obon and mid August obon is a time span when recently deceased/released spirits are in limbo waiting for the right opportunity to cross over, and being Japanese prefer to go in as large a group as possible.
IkemenTommy wrote:First a woman dies after being missing in the woods... then a helicopter rescue crew to search for the woman fatally crashes... and then two Nittele boy scouts with minimal gear go out to report on the failed helicopter attempt to save the woman end up dead also.
I guess they learned this time to not send any more rescue choppers.
IkemenTommy wrote:and then two Nittele boy scouts with minimal gear go out to report on the failed helicopter attempt to save the woman end up dead also.
Greji wrote:---a bit long to requote--
hairygateau wrote:..but the one piece of equipment they were all carrying would have been those fekking bear-bells.
tidbits wrote:no matter how you'd like to change any English spelling, please don't refer to your wifey like this.
tidbits wrote:no matter how you'd like to change any English spelling, please don't refer to your wifey like this.
Greji wrote:Maybe it ain't his wifey. Maybe it actually is his bitch????
Coligny wrote:Actually it's a reference to Ali-G since most of my english have turned into a mess of lolcat-chav cross over...
To stay classy she on her side prefer to pronouce it "beeyotch" when she use it to call me...
Yup... Wherever we go, people get the feeling that the circus is in town...
I might switch to 'me jooly' if U pr3f3r...
(on a side note, if it piss you off as much as me when people use the expression "the wife" I, like, totally feel your pain....)
tidbits wrote:The only thing I agree with you is your comments on your command of English, so I don't understand what are you singing here. Never mind, it was just a gentle suggestion anyway.
Coligny wrote:Not always easy to find common 'cultural' references...
And for the older crowd... some morally decadent animated Daguerreotype
[YT]iNtNxhQmkt4[/YT]
FG Lurker wrote:
Figured this pretty much fit this thread...
GomiGirl wrote:Good find FG. Very apt.
A helicopter carrying two crewmembers crashed on Sunday in a mountain on Yakushima in Kagoshima Prefecture in southwestern Japan, killing the two men, police said. The 38-year-old mechanic Shoji Miyake and the 47-year-old pilot, Yasuhisa Tanigawa, died after being taken to a nearby hospital.
There were no reports of injuries other than the crewmembers in the 8:40 a.m. crash, according to the police. The chopper belonged to Aero Asahi Corp based in Tokyo, they added.
According to the Environment Ministry, the chopper was dispatched to the island to transport building materials for repair work on a bridge near the crash site in the mountains.
The police are investigating whether the chopper was actually carrying the materials at the time of the incident.
The 500-square-kilometer island south of the prefecture in Kyushu is especially noted for old growth Cryptomeria trees believed to be about 3,000 years old and nearly 20 meters tall. It is also on the World Heritage list.
A Ground Self-Defense Force helicopter with a crew of four crashed on Sunday at the GSDF Yao garrison in the city of Yao in Osaka prefecture, with one of the four on board sustaining serious injuries, police said. The four crew members were taken to a nearby hospital, according to the local fire station.
The GSDF said the injuries to the four, three of whom were only slightly hurt in the crash, are not life threatening.
The UH-1 helicopter belonging to the GSDF Middle Army Aviation Group was on a test flight after a regular maintenance check and was hovering when it crashed, according to the GSDF, which is now investigating the cause of the incident. Two pilots and two mechanics were on board, the GSDF said.
Coligny wrote:I blame gravity...
Users browsing this forum: Google [Bot] and 102 guests