What’s the story here?

 aircraft, awesomeness, photography
Dec 132009
 

I downloaded this photo off the web a few years back, but it didn’t have the context. Anybody got a link to a description? If it is a for-real shot, it’s amazing timing.

oops.jpg

 Posted by at 11:35 pm

  5 Responses to “What’s the story here?”

  1. fd says:
    December 14, 2009 at 3:17 am

    Here’s the report of the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch:

    http://www.aaib.gov.uk/publications/bulletins/october_2007/vans_rv_7a__g_cdrm.cfm

    (See the PDF link on that page.)

    Other pages which may or may not be of interest:

    http://web.archive.org/web/20071012062241/http://www.thatsnotnews.com/blog/general/snapped_before_impact

    http://www.pprune.org/private-flying/279412-croft-farm-flyin-today-oops.html

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfaCGc16jQ0

  2. fd says:
    December 14, 2009 at 3:26 am

    Also:

    http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=G-CDRM

    By the way, on the web.archive.org link posted previously, most of the potentially-interesting information is in the comments, which you have to scroll a bit (beyond the missing image links) to find.

  3. James says:
    December 14, 2009 at 8:52 am

    Real:
    http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=G-CDRM
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfaCGc16jQ0

    I got lucky when searching: “DRM” on the side of the airplane is part of the ‘tail’ number. Awesome picture!

  4. Hank says:
    December 14, 2009 at 9:16 am

    I’ve looked at this before. I decided it’s not a plane crashing head first into the ground, but more likely an airplane that “tripped.” It hit a prairie dog hole, or something like that, and nosed over. Anyway, that’s my theory.

  5. admin says:
    December 14, 2009 at 11:30 am

    Thanks for the info!

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