Real life disasters... Seen today's news? It's like the making of Final Destination 4. This crane carrying a load of 185 tonne load toppled and crushed 3 persons. A Chinese national, an Indian national and a Singaporean.
In the midst of its topple, the load knocked into the Indian grandfather standing on the oil rig, and the tip of the crane, smashed into the Chinese man on the ground. The Singaporean,also a grandfather, was in his excavator when the load crashed down on it...
Sick. Bloody sick.
I can only hope they all died instantly, especially the S'porean and the Chinese man la... such a load topple onto them... can't even start to imagine if they were crushed and pinned under, but still alive and awaiting help. like my dad said, everything inside them would have been flattened... den still breathing... *shudders* And the S'porean man, i can imagine, didn't even see it coming la since the load LANDED on him. I was telling my parents, this kind of freak accident, the person wun even know what hit him. Maybe die already oso dunnoe... Poor man.
There must have been something wrong with the crane. Maybe it was over due for checks and reservicing, if not, how can a crane just "snap"?! my god this kind of things do happen ok... and today's news is not the worst case scenario of machinery overdue for servicing.
2 days ago, i watched Discovery Channel. It was about plane-crash investigations wan... In yr 2000 this Alaska airline 216, crashed into the Pacific (i think). None of its 88 passengers survived. It was really quite horrific, the reanactment...
Something went wrong with the stabilizer.... The stabilizer is for controlling the up and down movement of the plane. if it tilts down, the plane tilts up and vice versa. Thru'out the flight, it's spins up and down a jackscrew.
So what happened was it was overdue for servicing/ oiling for TWO YEARS.
Supposedly the airline started to cut costs abt 5 fives back before this freak accident... it began to drastically increase flights number per day, THUS DRASTICALLY DECREASING the amount of routine checks inbetween flights etc etc.
By the time flight 216 took off, the jackscrew had so little or NO OIL at all, that it practically TORE OFF THE THREADS (IRON ridges that run down the screw) AND GOT stuck permanently in the UP position... So.. you can imagine wtf happened to the plane... It nose dived from the sky, plummeted at 350km/h towards the ocean and exploded into smithereens - none of the bodies recovery are intact :'(
The worst thing was, all the passengers and crew were conscious and all la.. not like there was any fire on board or it crashed with another aircraft or something. when it nose dived for 60s, it also Inverted so they were like hanging upside down from their seats, screaming and praying. But nothing was gonna save them la since the jackscrew was like gone beyond hope...
And til the very last minute, the pilots tried everything they could to control the plane. They were 2 old guys... but they never knew what happened even til their last moments- ground control can go and eat SHIT coz that guy depicted had only a manual to refer to.
When he couldn't find a possible explaination and solution for those pilots when they contacted him during sos, he went, "Erm, you can try anything u want, it's ok with me..." Then the 2 pilots turned to each other with a doomed look...
wah biang, quite upset after the show... because 'twas very real la. the pilot were so pitiful, having to see the ocean come up at their faces and there was nothing else they could do. The passengers were so terrified, probably wishing to die before they hit the earth. It must have really been like a cursed roller-coaster ride to hell literally- the way the plane just keep plummeting down upside down foreva...
