Re: OT: Worst crash you have witnessed?

On Feb 13 2009 7:02 PM, Porsche_Dan wrote:

Not that this is a contest, but what is the worst accident you have
witnessed first hand? I have got to be in the top percentile.

My son is in a PhD program for psychology and keeps bringing me books to
read, surveys to fill out etc.... Frightening stuff really, searching your
inner baggage is a very painful process for most. Based on the
psychological theory that we are a sum of our experiences my son has been
probing me on my views of human carnage.

I have seen some horrific shit but by far the worst was an airplane
accident that rained bodies on my house.

My Dad was a military pilot, which prompted me to get my license and go
the commercial pilot route. Mid way through my education there was a
collision over my home in San Diego. A Cessna hit a PSA 727 sending both
planes and 100+ people into a residential area.

We were lucky, only a body hit our house, airplane parts hit others and
killed people on the ground. Whole bodies, limbs, and guts were strewn
about. They actually brought in meat trucks to preserve the bodies for
identification. I remember the tragic humor that followed. One truck said
Oscar Mayer on it, others also had commercial names on the sides. Hard to
eat a steak with that mental image!!

I didn't fly for some time after that, and even now when I fly commercial
I'm picky about airlines and safety records. Seeing dead bodies is no big
deal for me. Nothing will compare to what I saw in San Diego that day. My
family is amazed at how human carnage doesn't bother me in the least, come
to find out I am a sum of my experience.

Best friends head land at my feet after he got hit by a train. The look on
he face was oddly peaceful.

Chris

"NO! I want this shit to STOP! Right NOW! Nobody takes me serious
anymore." - Paul
Popinjay, 01/16/2009

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