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Small Blimp goes down at US Open / Erin, WI
A small blimp owned by Airsign.com deflated, caught fire and went down. It appears the pilot parachuted out. Although injured, it appears the pilot survived (www.jsonline.com) Mais...
Very few will know what you meant...lol
It's practically standing still now they've dropped ropes out of the nose of the ship; and (uh) they've been taken a hold of down on the field by a number of men. It's starting to rain again; it's... the rain had (uh) slacked up a little bit. The back motors of the ship are just holding it (uh) just enough to keep it from...It's burst into flames! Get this, Charlie; get this, Charlie! It's fire... and it's crashing! It's crashing terrible! Oh, my! Get out of the way, please! It's burning and bursting into flames and the... and it's falling on the mooring mast. And all the folks agree that this is terrible; this is the worst of the worst catastrophes in the world. Oh it's... [unintelligible] its flames... Crashing, oh! Four- or five-hundred feet into the sky and it... it's a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. It's smoke, and it's in flames now; and the frame is crashing to the ground, not quite to the mooring mast. Oh, the humanity! And all the passengers screaming around here. I told you; it – I can't even talk to people, their friends are on there! Ah! It's... it... it's a... ah! I... I can't talk, ladies and gentlemen. Honest: it's just laying there, mass of smoking wreckage. Ah! And everybody can hardly breathe and talk and the screaming. I... I... I'm sorry. Honest: I... I can hardly breathe. I... I'm going to step inside, where I cannot see it. Charlie, that's terrible. Ah, ah... I can't. Listen, folks; I... I'm gonna have to stop for a minute because I've lost my voice. This is the worst thing I've ever witnessed.
— Herbert Morrison, Transcription of WLS radio broadcast describing the Hindenburg disaster.
— Herbert Morrison, Transcription of WLS radio broadcast describing the Hindenburg disaster.
hahaha, well played!!
I thought it was a hot air balloon shaped like a blimp??? at least that's what CNN said today Don't know just asking
The pilot is okay but suffered some burns, a spokesman for AirSign said in a telephone interview from the company's Florida office. "He stayed with the blimp until it went down," he said, adding that a crew member on ground pulled the pilot from the wreckage.