VIDEO - LAPD officers pull man from airplane seconds before train crushes it

 
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 1:37 am    Post subject: VIDEO - LAPD officers pull man from airplane seconds before train crushes it

holy fuuuuuuuuuuu

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 8:13 am    Post subject:

In this case, the LAPD did a magnificent job.


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PostPosted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 8:39 am    Post subject:

Chalk one up for The Boys & Girls In Blue
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 8:47 am    Post subject:

WOW! I had to read tat subject line three times just to make sure I was reading it correctly.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 11:14 am    Post subject:

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WOW! I had to read tat subject line three times just to make sure I was reading it correctly.

I just reread it. Initially, I thought they pulled him from a car. Amazingly no one was killed.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 5:43 pm    Post subject:

It's weird how there are dozens of scrapes and many even closer to death than this. Some muhs truly escape buses a half step in time, not even a full one. I just saw a whole vid full of them the other day. Giant boulders falling onto mountain roads a partial second before or after a car stops in front or passes it, that kinda thing. Seen both sides of a tractor trailer rolling over a dude in China w/o getting one tire on him and another where all the contents of a limb were splatted out of the corpse's skin like a tire running over a banana. Of course, the clips where the folks who are a half step or a second too late are specialty clips.

There was a 60s song about these phenomena:


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PostPosted: Tue Jan 11, 2022 12:20 pm    Post subject:

jodeke wrote:
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WOW! I had to read tat subject line three times just to make sure I was reading it correctly.

I just reread it. Initially, I thought they pulled him from a car. Amazingly no one was killed.


Yep . . . the idea that a plane crashed right into a rail crossing shortly before a train came along and cops pulling him out last second is nuts. If you put that into a primetime cop show, people would laugh at the implausibility.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 11, 2022 2:24 pm    Post subject:

I think that's a push-pull train. It looked like an engine was in front. If it was it probably prevented injury to passengers and the engineer.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 11, 2022 3:08 pm    Post subject:

jodeke wrote:
I think that's a push-pull train. It looked like an engine was in front. If it was it probably prevented injury to passengers and the engineer.


That was the "CAB" car which is the opposite side from the engine and is allowed to carry passengers.

CAB cars are weighted with a crumple zone to help with impacts. That plane was very light and only the tail was on the tracks so the train likely did pretty well through the impact.

You can see the engine of the train at the 28 second mark on this video:
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 11, 2022 4:10 pm    Post subject:

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jodeke wrote:
I think that's a push-pull train. It looked like an engine was in front. If it was it probably prevented injury to passengers and the engineer.


That was the "CAB" car which is the opposite side from the engine and is allowed to carry passengers.

CAB cars are weighted with a crumple zone to help with impacts. That plane was very light and only the tail was on the tracks so the train likely did pretty well through the impact.

You can see the engine of the train at the 28 second mark on this video:
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Thanks. Man, that train was moving! Do they have speed limits on them in city limits?
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 11, 2022 4:46 pm    Post subject:

jodeke wrote:
LakersRGolden wrote:
jodeke wrote:
I think that's a push-pull train. It looked like an engine was in front. If it was it probably prevented injury to passengers and the engineer.


That was the "CAB" car which is the opposite side from the engine and is allowed to carry passengers.

CAB cars are weighted with a crumple zone to help with impacts. That plane was very light and only the tail was on the tracks so the train likely did pretty well through the impact.

You can see the engine of the train at the 28 second mark on this video:
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Thanks. Man, that train was moving! Do they have speed limits on them in populated parts of cities?


Yes. Each section of track has its own limit determined by a lot of things like turns, at-grade crossings, how many people are expected to be near the tracks.

The max speed allowed for the Amtrak trains (which share tracks with these metro's) is 90. A crew will be shut down on the spot if they exceed that plus a small buffer. I'm assuming it's similar for the Metros.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 11, 2022 5:42 pm    Post subject:

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