Re: Senior moment (link)

Richard Robinson wrote:

Austin Shackles said:

they were doing their normal wbo for which they got paid, and were fully
aware of the risks involved. There's no suggestion that it was shot dowm
that I've heard - it's supposed to have been a mechanical failure.
how does this make them "heroes", I wonder?


Curious suggestion. You're in a plane that goes down in flames and hits
the ground, you die. If it's a "normal" failure, you're not a hero, if it
was someone doing it deliberately then you are, even though the effect's
pretty much the same and you probably wouldn't even have a chance to do
anything very different. You possibly wouldn't even know which.
That seems an odd thought.

I know different. Two friends with whom I played bridge went down in their PR9 shortly after take off: massive failure of some sort. They could have bailed but stayed with it to try to avoid a school full of kids. They were aiming for the dog track, but missed it and hit some houses as they were too low to manouever. Five small children died. Five rather than a school full. Heros.

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