Crocodile Crashes Aircraft In Congo 13
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samzenpus
from the I-only-let-him-touch-the-controls-for-a-minute dept.
from the I-only-let-him-touch-the-controls-for-a-minute dept.
An anonymous reader writes "A 20-seat regional airliner crashed in Congo, after an illegally trafficked pet crocodile escaped from a bag on-board. Panicked passengers stormed the cockpit, causing the plane to lose balance and crash just a few hundred paces from the runway they were supposed to land at. Only one person survived the impact."
Snakes on a Plane II: In Cold Blood (Score:2, Funny)
Spoof - who publishes this (Score:2)
The story originated from a site called www.thespoof.com!
CNN isn't the only agency to publish this one. Here's a Belgian paper which published it, and even mentioned that they found it on www.thespoof.com:
http://www.lalibre.be/actu/international/article/618724/un-crocodile-de-quatre-metres-cache-dans-un-sac-a-la-base-d-un-accident-d-avion-au-congo.html [lalibre.be]
(I guess they can excuse themselves because there's the language barrier.)
not CNN, I meant Fox News (Score:2)
s/CNN/Fox/
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Not quite. The Spoof has an article with fake quotes talking about the crocodile attempting to pilot the plane. It was published on October 22nd, 2010.
Other [aviation-safety.net] sources [msn.com] include more details, and appear to be legitimate. Some [eturbonews.com] predate the Spoof article.
It's not the incident that The Spoof fictionalized. It's just the details.
seems you're right (Score:2)
Strange.
I wonder why the Belgian paper credited www.thespoof.com with the story.
Now that I search that site for "crocodile" and "congo", I only find this story:
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s3i84966 [thespoof.com]
(which is a childish "spoof" about the pilot being in the jacuzzi at the time...)
didnt the crocodile say (Score:1)
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I can't be the only one who wants to know... (Score:2, Insightful)
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Been There, Done That - Ace Rimmer - What a Guy! (Score:1)