Plane used in Honda skydiving ad crashed next flight
Mere hours after Honda's impressive skydiving commercial named "Jump" aired live in Europe, the plane used in the spot crashed and claimed the lives of its pilot and a skydiver. Nine other skydivers aboard the plane, a Pilatus PC-6, were fortunately able to escape before the crash. While Honda has extended its condolences to the victims' families, the automaker was apparently in no way connected to the incident. The sky divers in Honda's commercial and the production crew had all moved on by then, but it's a little creepy to think of what would've happened if this tragedy had occurred on live television. The crash occurred in Toledo, Spain after the aircraft lost a wing, the cause of which is not yet known. Thanks to Satish for the tip.
[Source: BBC]
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Mobius_1 10:46AM (6/02/2008)
Wow, BBC put this in their "Entertainment" section
Condolescences to the family of those who lost their lives, and the plane which has probably left a legacy
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D 10:55AM (6/02/2008)
I remember reading a few days ago about this plane crash and thinking, "Spain? That's where they filmed the Honda ad" but then dismissing it as a coincidence.
Then I read this. Eerie.
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halogenrepublic 11:01AM (6/02/2008)
Deepest condolescences to the family of victims in this tragedy.
Apparently, Honda should be building airplanes as well.
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Brett 1:22PM (6/02/2008)
done...
http://hondajet.honda.com/default.aspx?bhcp=1
tankd0g 11:07AM (6/02/2008)
Now that's news worthy.
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oby 11:03AM (6/02/2008)
"Apparently, Honda should be building airplanes as well."
They do. Check out the Hondajet.
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halogenrepublic 2:26PM (6/02/2008)
Cool. Thx for the tip.
Brian Marshall 11:24AM (6/02/2008)
Creepy. Sympathies to the friends and families of the victims.
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gary 11:48AM (6/02/2008)
"aircraft lost a wing, the cause of which is not yet known"...look at the picture for the cause.
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Elblendo 12:01PM (6/02/2008)
The picture shows a group of skydivers falling away from the plane. They're not all dangling off the wing. Would you care to elaborate on your comment?
The Luigiian 2:55PM (6/02/2008)
You dumbass, they're not hanging on to the wing, that's a trick of perspective.
Mr. Blake 2:57PM (6/02/2008)
@ Elblendo
Would you care to take a joke?
beanspants 11:32AM (6/02/2008)
a skydiver died in a plane crash? is that someone who's profession is 'skydiver' or someone who had a skydiving parachute on at the time of the crash? if it's the latter, that's wierd.
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Bah 12:18PM (6/02/2008)
Maybe he was waiting for the other nine guys to jump out first and simply didn't have enough time to escape. When wings fall off planes I don't think they stick around in the sky all that long.
Al 2:51PM (6/02/2008)
Condolences to the families of the victims.
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The Luigiian 2:52PM (6/02/2008)
Like others have said, condolences to the families of the pilot and skydiver.
This is what happens when you entitle an advertisement "Jump" and then not use the Van Halen song of the same name.
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bruno 3:29PM (6/02/2008)
They call it "thrill seeking" for a reason. If it weren't dangerous it wouldn't be thrilling. Obviously they realize that it's a numbers game and sometimes your number is up when you play with danger. I went to school with a guy who died when a whole planeload of divers went down with the plane.
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Snark 5:39PM (6/02/2008)
And the Curse of Soichiro claims another pair of unfortunate souls.
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Westside T.O. 10:56AM (6/03/2008)
I offer the friends and families of those lost in the crash my deepest condolences. The Honda crew just got lucky...
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