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Major Airshow Disaster At Sun n' Fun Airshow, Lakeland, FL

Posted on 03/31/2011 1:40:59 PM PDT by U S Army EOD

Sun n' Fun has been hit by strong storms and probable tornado damaging or destroying many aircraft. Several injuries and some structural damage to buildings. The Zenith line took a direct hit. This is on the news and several websites.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: florida; lakeland
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To: P-Marlowe

Well said, this is far from a disaster.

Broken hip and some other minor injuries, a few million $ in property damage?

Every Saturday night in every one of the 200 most populated American towns and cities.


41 posted on 03/31/2011 3:07:19 PM PDT by MindBender26 (While the MSM slept.... we have become relevant media in Ameirca.)
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To: Cheetahcat

Apparently they were torn off, some of the planes were actually torn into. I’ve had one flipped over in the wind and it didn’t look like some of those that I have seen on the aviation web sites. They are a mess.


42 posted on 03/31/2011 3:07:43 PM PDT by U S Army EOD
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To: U S Army EOD
You have got to be some liberal that doesn’t own an airplane.

Grasping at straws, huh?

The fact of the matter is that this is not breaking news. And it is not a MAJOR AIRSHOW DISASTER.

It is a sad day for some aviation enthusiasts. But hardly a MAJOR DISASTER.

43 posted on 03/31/2011 3:08:29 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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Last summer in the 25,000 person town where I live we had a huge hail storm come through (missed our airport, thankfully!).

More than $1,000,000 worth of windows were broken on our university campus alone.

The total damages quickly soared to well over $100,000,000.

I'm sure many here would not consider it a ‘disaster’ but it sure felt like one from my desk.

This is a tragedy for the loss of the aircraft.

If the story was about ‘Six Whales Beached’ well, all too many would consider THAT a disaster.

The moral to this story: Save the planes, eat the whales!

44 posted on 03/31/2011 3:09:31 PM PDT by Leo Farnsworth (I'm not really Leo Farnsworth.)
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To: The KG9 Kid

If you aren’t interested or don’t understand the situation, don’t reply.


45 posted on 03/31/2011 3:09:46 PM PDT by U S Army EOD
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To: P-Marlowe

And your flying experience is?


46 posted on 03/31/2011 3:11:26 PM PDT by U S Army EOD
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To: BillyA

>> Sorry to disturb you - we’ll only wake you for bigger injuries in the future.

I don’t know, the sarcasm isn’t on balance with the concern some of might have upon reading the headline — not to minimize the welfare of those thought to have been trapped in the tent structure.


47 posted on 03/31/2011 3:12:34 PM PDT by Gene Eric (*** Jesus ***)
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To: P-Marlowe

>>>It is a sad day for some aviation enthusiasts. But hardly a MAJOR DISASTER.

That’s your opinion, and It does not give you license to be a major wazoo aperture.


48 posted on 03/31/2011 3:15:39 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
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To: P-Marlowe

You are an idiot pal.
Probably 30,000 folks there to look at all kinds on neat airplane stuff and a very stiff storm hits.
Misleading?
Get real moron.


49 posted on 03/31/2011 3:20:10 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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To: U S Army EOD
And your flying experience is?

My Father was a Marine Leatherneck flying over 2000 hours in a Corsair F4U in Korea and was shot down twice and earned a purple heart.

My son is a licensed pilot who got his pilot's license on his 17th birthday, but now that he no longer works at the airport as a flight school dispatcher, he can't afford to fly. I am lifelong aviation fan, but this is NOT A MAJOR AIRSHOW DISASTER. This is a sad day for some aircraft owners. They'll get over it. They are a tough bunch.

50 posted on 03/31/2011 3:27:04 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: U S Army EOD
I almost didn't respond, some of the comments are.. interesting.

I guess it's how I was raised. Disaster is loss of life, loss of function within your person because of an accident. I was told that if you walked away alive, everything else, eventually could be fixed.

We'll agree to disagree and leave it on a polite note.

I wish everyone well who was there and that had property damage. I'm glad that in the winds and turmoil, there was no loss of life.

51 posted on 03/31/2011 3:28:26 PM PDT by RikaStrom (Pray for Obama - Psalm 109:8 "Let his days be few; and let another take his place of leadership.")
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To: RikaStrom; P-Marlowe; BillyA; U S Army EOD
Incredibly misleading headline. There was a storm, weather damage, but certainly nothing along the implied lines of a an air show disaster,

I agree. Now THIS is an airshow disaster:

52 posted on 03/31/2011 3:30:05 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: U S Army EOD

Your title suggests a plane went down into the crowd ala Ramstein.

Glad to hear it was the weather.


53 posted on 03/31/2011 3:44:32 PM PDT by hattend (Obama got his 3am call about Egypt. The call went right to the answering machine.- Sarah Palin)
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To: U S Army EOD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaSYbSVE1oY&feature=feedu

AVWeb report. No serious injuries, minor injuries treated on-site. 40 Damaged or destroyed aircraft, exhibit damage.

Still, if that was my Husky laying in a crumpled ball I might consider this a major disaster.


54 posted on 03/31/2011 3:48:28 PM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: MindBender26
...A broken hip and some broken planes do not a disaster make...

It does if it's your hip or your plane.

55 posted on 03/31/2011 3:53:29 PM PDT by FReepaholic (Pray for Japan.)
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To: P-Marlowe

>>>My Father was a Marine Leatherneck flying ... My son is a licensed pilot..

Neither gives you license to be a wazoo aperture.


56 posted on 03/31/2011 3:57:31 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
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To: U S Army EOD

“Apparently they were torn off, some of the planes were actually torn into. I’ve had one flipped over in the wind and it didn’t look like some of those that I have seen on the aviation web sites. They are a mess.”

What a disaster,I wish everyone the best.


57 posted on 03/31/2011 3:58:59 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: P-Marlowe
Seven injuries, so far reported. MAJOR DISASTER!!!

Now here is an around seven injury disaster in the making!

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58 posted on 03/31/2011 4:07:18 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Keith in Iowa; U S Army EOD
Neither gives you license to be a wazoo aperture

I am simply pointing out the misuse of the Breaking News sidebar and the misleading headline.

I can add to my "resume" that my cousin was killed in a Cessna 172 light plane crash. And when it happened it was front page news all over the country.

59 posted on 03/31/2011 4:09:06 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: P-Marlowe

The news had just broken.


60 posted on 03/31/2011 4:12:15 PM PDT by U S Army EOD
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