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Phin Power to the families of the dead and to Travis and Adam for recovery.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/200809 ... KLK80.html

I just heard about this. Sad news indeed

sad

Here is a pic of the plane:



I am surprised they survived.

Here is a link to the story with video of crash site and NTSB news

conference.

http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?sto ... 32&catid=2

The whole airport is closed which will cause many problems

one being we have a UPS air hub here.

Here is a slideshow of close up pics of plane.

I really can't beleive there were survivors.



http://www.wistv.com/global/Category.asp?C=127802

Wow, can't believe anyone survived this terrible crash.

Lots of Prayers and PHIN Power going out to the families of the victims.

I sure hope Travis and Adam can pull through this....that wreck looks horrible. Lots of PHIN Power heading their way.

We have a small airport in Columbia but this runway was extende by UPS
so they could land 747's during Christmas. The runway is about 1.78 miles long.



Here is loction of crash site closer.



They traveled quite a distance off the runway!

Amazing anyone came out of that crash alive.

I read that a passer-by in his car saw the fireball and came up on the wreckage and Barker and the other survivor's clothes were on fire and the guy helped them get their clothes off. I guess the DJ guy has burns over 50% of his body, including his face. Barker fared a little better I think.

I've been through that airport for work and while the airport is small, I didn't think the runway was too small. Something went seriously wrong, this is not the "wet runway" and slid off the end accident.

Here are the preliminary results from the investigation.

I knew they should have taken off rather than abort. Someone with flight

knowledge may have insight that I am missing. The only other thing I can

say for sure is that the plane construction was completed on my birthday.




http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_i ... 6308&key=1

So they attempted to abort the takeoff because of a problem with the plane?

Look at it this way, they probably wouldn't have gotten airborne no matter what they tried..... (And maybe that's what saved Travis and DJ)