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maryte

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Posted: Mar 11, 2009 - 7:15am

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:
just the other side of town to us...

my wife grew up near here.



 

I thought of you folks when I saw this - terrible to have happened, but I'm glad you're all okay.  {#Hug}
rachlan

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Posted: Mar 11, 2009 - 6:32am

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

now 16 dead including the guman:

son of a successful businessman
graduated from "Realschule" last year (mid-stream) sounds like he felt like a total loser
fled in his Dad's Porsche..
Dad had 18 guns at home.. bet he's regretting that now.

 
crazy shit.   headlines today both germany and alabama.  {#Sad}
NoEnzLefttoSplit

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Posted: Mar 11, 2009 - 6:26am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Scary random shit. They had one in Alabama yesterday too.
 
now 16 dead including the guman:

son of a successful businessman
graduated from "Realschule" last year (mid-stream) sounds like he felt like a total loser
fled in his Dad's Porsche..
Dad had 18 guns at home.. bet he's regretting that now.


ScottFromWyoming

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Posted: Mar 11, 2009 - 5:40am

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:
just the other side of town to us...

my wife grew up near here.



 
Scary random shit. They had one in Alabama yesterday too.

NoEnzLefttoSplit

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Posted: Mar 11, 2009 - 5:37am

just the other side of town to us...

my wife grew up near here.


Xeric

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Posted: Mar 6, 2009 - 7:49am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:


 

Wasn't there a sandwich shop in there too? I can't quite picture it all correctly.

 



Lazy mentions Pickle Barrel—was in bar, maybe?
ScottFromWyoming

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Posted: Mar 6, 2009 - 6:04am

 Xeric wrote:
  May just possibly have some personal bias, maybe,
 

 

Wasn't there a sandwich shop in there too? I can't quite picture it all correctly.


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Posted: Mar 6, 2009 - 5:00am

IT'S FRIDAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Xeric

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Posted: Mar 6, 2009 - 4:19am

 Lazy8 wrote:

The governor (an MSU graduate) gave the tv news an interview, and admitted that some of his research had been conducted at the Rockin' R.

Boodles was a decent place; you could get a good lunch for five bucks and they had local beer on tap. But the Pickle Barrel...my kids will be VERY disappointed.

The art gallery? Pfft. You could throw rocks thru random shop windows in Bozeman and hit a piece of "art" one out of three times.
 
Really—I only remembered shaking my head over Boodles' dinner menu prices and walking on down the street.  May just possibly have some personal bias, maybe, since the dirty rotten bastard who ran off with my girlfriend used to work there. 

Also, the shoe place (see below) is only three blocks away.  Still. . . .

But I stand by the R Bar's demise as being no great loss—what a dump!  (Disclaimer: I was last in there in about 1985.  It's since been remodeled.  I have no idea what I'm talking about.)

ScottFromWyoming

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Posted: Mar 5, 2009 - 9:38pm

Holy crap!
Lazy8

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Posted: Mar 5, 2009 - 9:29pm

 Rod wrote:
Man, how lucky that it wasn't in the middle of the day with all the businesses open! I hope they find the missing person okay.
 
No kidding. The explosion threw a parked car out into the street, blew out windows for blocks, threw bricks over a block away. At the lunch rush it could have easily caught a hundred people.

Still no word on the missing.

These pictures don't show as much damage as the stories describe, but it's still pretty bad.



Rod

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Posted: Mar 5, 2009 - 9:17pm

 Lazy8 wrote:

The governor (an MSU graduate) gave the tv news an interview, and admitted that some of his research had been conducted at the Rockin' R.

Boodles was a decent place; you could get a good lunch for five bucks and they had local beer on tap. But the Pickle Barrel...my kids will be VERY disappointed.

The art gallery? Pfft. You could throw rocks thru random shop windows in Bozeman and hit a piece of "art" one out of three times.
 
Man, how lucky that it wasn't in the middle of the day with all the businesses open! I hope they find the missing person okay.

Lazy8

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Posted: Mar 5, 2009 - 9:14pm

 Xeric wrote:
Yeah.  The businesses (a "western" gallery, a ridiculously expensive and relatively-newly-arrived restaurant, a frat bar) aren't huge losses to the town.  But those buildings. . . .
 
The governor (an MSU graduate) gave the tv news an interview, and admitted that some of his research had been conducted at the Rockin' R.

Boodles was a decent place; you could get a good lunch for five bucks and they had local beer on tap. But the Pickle Barrel...my kids will be VERY disappointed.

The art gallery? Pfft. You could throw rocks thru random shop windows in Bozeman and hit a piece of "art" one out of three times.

PoundPuppy

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Posted: Mar 5, 2009 - 8:55pm

The little tiny train at Zilker Park was derailed this morning . No injuries reported. Film at 11:00.
Xeric

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Posted: Mar 5, 2009 - 8:53pm

 Lazy8 wrote:
There's a hole in my town.

Natural gas explosion in downtown Bozeman this morning. Destroyed roughly half a city block, many beautiful old buildings. Lots of wreckage and damage. As of 5 pm it was still burning.

One person missing so far.



 
Yeah.  The businesses (a "western" gallery, a ridiculously expensive and relatively-newly-arrived restaurant, a frat bar) aren't huge losses to the town.  But those buildings. . . .

We installed cabinetry in a jewelry store eight blocks away.  My boss called there this morning.  Cabinets still on wall . . . but shoes knocked from shelves next door—eight blocks from the explosion.

BlueHeronDruid

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Posted: Mar 5, 2009 - 8:32pm

 Lazy8 wrote:
There's a hole in my town.

Natural gas explosion in downtown Bozeman this morning. Destroyed roughly half a city block, many beautiful old buildings. Lots of wreckage and damage. As of 5 pm it was still burning.

One person missing so far.



 
We thought about you when we read about this earlier today. I'm glad to see your post.

winter

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Posted: Mar 5, 2009 - 8:25pm

 Lazy8 wrote:
There's a hole in my town.

Natural gas explosion in downtown Bozeman this morning. Destroyed roughly half a city block, many beautiful old buildings. Lots of wreckage and damage. As of 5 pm it was still burning.

One person missing so far.

 
Wow! That's terrible.
Lazy8

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Posted: Mar 5, 2009 - 8:22pm

There's a hole in my town.

Natural gas explosion in downtown Bozeman this morning. Destroyed roughly half a city block, many beautiful old buildings. Lots of wreckage and damage. As of 5 pm it was still burning.

One person missing so far.


Zep

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Posted: Feb 25, 2009 - 7:00am

Turkish Airlines Flight TK1951 was carrying at least 134 people on a morning flight from Istanbul when it hit the ground some distance short of Amsterdam's Schiphol airport.

The crash happened at 1031 local time <0931 GMT>. The plane was making its final approach to runway 18R when it crash landed in a ploughed field close to the A9 motorway.

It broke into three pieces but did not catch fire.

Helpers arrived at the scene very quickly and gave first aid on the spot.

Officials have now confirmed that at least nine people have died and some 50 are injured.

All flights at the airport were suspended immediately after the crash.

'It completely lost propulsion'

A student who witnessed the crash said the plane appeared to be gliding into the airport without engine power.

Thomas Freidhoff told the BBC: "At first it didn't seem that odd because it was flying low but aeroplanes do that around Schiphol.

"At a certain point I realised I was hearing engine noise, but it wasn't coming from that plane.

"It was gliding through the air trying to make the runway. It completely lost propulsion or couldn't glide anymore, and you clearly saw it come down several tens of metres and come to a quite sudden stop," he added.

The fact that no fire broke out on impact has prompted some to suggest that the plane was low on fuel when it hit the ground.

It was at the end of its flight from Istanbul, though experts say that there would have been a quantity of fuel onboard.

Chris Yates, an aviation safety analyst for Jane's, the defence and security group said that weather should not have been a problem.

"I don't think weather is a factor. Light winds, slightly overcast and some rain but only light showers. These are the sort of weather conditions that aircraft fly in all the time," he told the BBC.

Schiphol airport has a good safety record and is considered by pilots to be one of the premier airports in the world with a very good layout.

Flight safety

The Boeing 737-800 aircraft has a good safety record, experts say.

It is one of the latest versions of Boeing's 737 family of jetliners that first flew in the 1960s, considered the most successful aircraft of its type.

The aircraft first flew in 1997 and came into service the following year. This particular aircraft was delivered to Turkish Airlines in 2002.

There have been three previous crashes involving the single aisle, twin engine, short-to-medium range plane which can carry between 162 and 189 passengers.

In September 2006 a 737-800 collided with an executive jet mid-air over Brazil, killing all on board.

In May the following year, a Kenya airways flight crashed near Nairobi airport. All 105 passengers and nine crew were killed.

Three months later, a China Airlines 737-800 caught fire shortly after landing. All on board were safely evacuated.

Turkish Airlines has a good safety record. It is rated a four star airline by Skytrax, industry research advisors to the world airline and air transport industry. This is the same rating as Virgin and British Airways.

The last crash involving a Turkish Airlines plane was in 2003 when 65 people died in an accident in eastern Turkey.

 

Story from BBC NEWS:


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Posted: Feb 24, 2009 - 1:22pm

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