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    14-Year-Old Girl Survives Yemeni Plane Crash

    Wreckage Found By Brazilian Searchers Is Not From Flight 447

    Brazilian Searchers Find Aircraft Wreckage in the Atlantic

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    Image of rajmahall rajmahall
    07/01/09

    In reply to 14-Year-Old Girl Survives Yemeni Plane Crash
    14-year-olds are always the biggest badasses. That's why they're recruited exclusively to operate all of Japan's giant robots:



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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    07/01/09

    @rajmahall: Asuka was a bitch.
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    Image of Leucadia Leucadia
    07/01/09

    In reply to 14-Year-Old Girl Survives Yemeni Plane Crash
    "Fragile and timid"? After being thrown from an airplane in midair and clinging to wreckage among dead bodies for hours? No shit.
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    Image of randomnessish randomnessish
    07/01/09

    @Leucadia: Fragile and timid my ass. "Fragile and timid" doesn't fight to survive a plane crash in the ocean as people die around it, with a broken collarbone, at 14 years old.
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    Image of Niko Bellic Niko Bellic
    07/01/09

    In reply to 14-Year-Old Girl Survives Yemeni Plane Crash
    Not bad. She got nothing on my homegirl Vesna, though:


    [en.wikipedia.org]

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    07/01/09

    @Niko Bellic: Oh my God, what a total badass she is. Now when I am in awe of someone of the female persuasion, I am calling her a total Vesna!
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    07/01/09

    In reply to 14-Year-Old Girl Survives Yemeni Plane Crash
    Jesus.. makes you wonder about San'a/Moroni airport security..
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    Image of Tara Incognita Tara Incognita
    07/01/09

    In reply to 14-Year-Old Girl Survives Yemeni Plane Crash
    But did they find Leonardo DiCaprio?


    Seriously, though, well done her.

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    Image of SharonTaint SharonTaint
    06/05/09

    In reply to Wreckage Found By Brazilian Searchers Is Not From Flight 447
    Tighten those tin foil hats, people...
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    Image of BaconCat BaconCat
    06/05/09

    In reply to Wreckage Found By Brazilian Searchers Is Not From Flight 447
    And somewhere in the Brazilian heartland a jet engine has just fallen from a crear sky and crushed 17 year-old misfit Donnie Darçao.
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    Image of boozeshaman boozeshaman
    06/05/09

    In reply to Wreckage Found By Brazilian Searchers Is Not From Flight 447
    This story fits creepily well into some of the kooky but strangely resonant theories about 2012 I have read; in particular, the notion that in these last couple years there will be a series of developments involving high-profile "disappearances" that will accelerate panic and awe on the planet, and send world religions into deep philosophical crises. This stuff is "supposed to" begin this summer.


    Jesus, I'm stoned.

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    Image of koniki koniki
    06/05/09

    @boozeshaman: Please expound on this. What are the deets of these 2012 theories?
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    06/05/09

    @koniki:


    I think most serious Mayanologists don't place much stock in the 2012 thing.

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    Image of dado dado
    06/05/09

    In reply to Wreckage Found By Brazilian Searchers Is Not From Flight 447
    One time at a bed and breakfast the girl I was with lost a diamond earring...not a very big one. While searching through the carpet I found another diamond earring, a bigger one. So these things can happen. She kept the earring and we broke up shortly thereafter.
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    Image of Richard Lawson Richard Lawson
    06/05/09

    In reply to Wreckage Found By Brazilian Searchers Is Not From Flight 447
    WOW.
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    Image of TableNine TableNine
    06/05/09

    @Richard Lawson: And here I thought the Brazilian Triangle had to do with landscaping.
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    Image of AndIAmTellingYou AndIAmTellingYou
    06/05/09

    @TableNine: LOL
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    Image of Astigmatism Astigmatism
    06/05/09

    In reply to Wreckage Found By Brazilian Searchers Is Not From Flight 447
    Wait, so there's debris and an oil slick too large to be from this flight? Meaning something even bigger crashed there?


    Screw Lost - this is beginning to look like Sphere.

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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    06/02/09

    In reply to Brazilian Searchers Find Aircraft Wreckage in the Atlantic
    Oil and an airplane seat...


    I had a date end that way once.

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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    06/02/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Olestra?
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    Image of Trulymadlyme Trulymadlyme
    06/02/09

    @momof3wildkids: Alli.
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    Image of kimsama kimsama
    06/02/09

    In reply to Brazilian Searchers Find Aircraft Wreckage in the Atlantic
    It's possible that the plane's autopilot or automatic systems could have been involved. There were two separate incidents of A330 failures in Australia (one plunging several hundred feet in turbulence, one with a malfunctioning autopilot. I've heard the A330s criticized as being "too automatic" -- instigating procedures that the pilot would not. It's sadly possible that there was some combination of factors involved here.


    I fly to Asia very frequently, and have actually flown through "walls of storms" -- and it's terrifying, but modern planes are supposed to be able to withstand them. I hope whatever caused the accident is discovered and rectified as quickly as possible. It still makes me nervous about my next long transpacific flight (especially during Typhoon season).

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    Image of bboston88 bboston88
    06/02/09

    In reply to Brazilian Searchers Find Aircraft Wreckage in the Atlantic
    I just hope they can find the black box otherwise we'll never know what happened and I may never fly again. At least on an Airbus 330.
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    Image of SharonTaint SharonTaint
    06/02/09

    @bboston88 (star please?): whatever happened was definitely a one in a million event. The A330's are highly reliable; the last time a fatal accident occurred in one was in 1994.
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    Image of Cheap Shot Cheap Shot
    06/02/09

    @bboston88 (star please?): As soon as I saw the first Airbus 330 I said to myself that I would NEVER go on that thing. It's weird but I feel safer in smaller planes, something about having over 200 people in a metal structure that scares me. Especially if it's boarded by a majority of overweight Americans.
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    Image of Crustaceans Rarely Get Past Me Crustaceans Rarely Get Past Me
    06/02/09

    @Cheap Shot: Statistically, smaller planes are less safe...
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    Image of ligmasagbatch ligmasagbatch
    06/02/09

    @Cheap Shot: I think you might be thinking of the big giant A380. This one is a smaller plane designed for low-demand long hauls (like Rio to Paris). It's not a monster plane like the 380.


    Love,
    Nerdlinger Jones

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    Image of Cheap Shot Cheap Shot
    06/02/09

    @ligmasagbatch: Ah! thanks for clearing that up.
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    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    06/02/09

    @Crustaceans Rarely Get Past Me: Is that true across the board, or only for smaller aircraft in general (as opposed to commercial) aviation?
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    Image of wry_bred wry_bred
    06/02/09

    In reply to Brazilian Searchers Find Aircraft Wreckage in the Atlantic
    I'll just continue to believe this is a cover-up perpetrated by Charles Widmore and that the passengers are all safely on Lost island now.
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