Video of rescue from plane caught in power lines

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Video of rescue from plane caught in power lines

#1 Post by Bob Juch » Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:08 am

Can you say lucky?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7568045.stm
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#2 Post by etaoin22 » Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:15 am

Lucky.

Especially the guy who had to wait a couple of extra minutes since they could only carry one at a time down....
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#3 Post by tanstaafl2 » Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:58 pm

I wonder if the first cherry picker didn't go high enough. That first one you see is different from the one they used to rescue the two passangers.

I also would be curious to see what they did with the plane itself. That it hung on that wire at all was pretty amazing.
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