How not to take off with a floatplane
A De Havilland Beaver crashes while taking off at Lake Hood in Anchorage, AK, USA.
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2. Comment rated too low. Show this comment JerryD 3 years ago
Look! I'm gonna fly! I'm in the air! .... nooo I'm not! Is the plane insured? Feel's like been over the head in shit now!
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Good camera action, because mostly it's just OMG it crashed and... And you are so damn curious about what happened, and the cameraman has forgot about his cam, and you are left with audio only...
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4. Comment rated too low. Show this comment Cifer 3 years ago
some people just got too much money ...
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6. Fergus_Thedog 3 years ago
Aren't planes usually called things like "albatross" or "eagle" or similar flying creature..? That flying craft was screwed (pun unintended but gleefully acknowledged) as soon as it was called "beaver".
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7. Yellowdie12 3 years ago
Yeah, I think I would have been running at 0:38 and not wait until it hits me. That's just me...
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It looked like it slowed down halfway through the lake. And why wasn't the pilot lightly pulling back on the yoke then rather than waiting a second before the end of the lake to do it?!
Camera guy has balls.. he so easily could have been chewed up by the propellor. In fact, the pilot probably crashed like that because of the camera guy, he tried to get over him rather than just bumping up the end of the lake and through the fence.
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one may wanna say it's pilot's fault, to a certain level there is; not because is being unexperienced in flying, but choosing wrong way to accelerate, he should have taxi'd the opposite way @round, my guess.
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It is a bit hard to determine if people are being sarcastic on the Internet...but #10 that post was an epic fail...
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Pilot. "Ooh look we're being filmed!"
Passenger. "Um, don't you think you'd better watch where you're going?"
Pilot. "Oh it's OK, i've done this sort of thing a million times! Relax!"
Passenger. "OMFG!"
Pilot. "DOH!"
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15. lacroupade 3 years ago
#9 I have no idea what you are talking about my friend? But yes, something tells me you MAY 'wanna say its the pilots fault'!!! 
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Why did he took off? It is obviously still needs more acceleration and power. What a waste of money. 
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20. moon-trial 138 days ago
Flying short, landing hard!
This is the Middle East way to drive planes! 
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1. WildMonkey 3 years ago
So much FAIL it's a WIN!