Anybody know the story behind this picture? (I'm referring to what's in the background, guys...)
looks shopped to me, but what do I know?
not saying the plane didn't crash somewhere, just not sure that it crashed there. Line where the plane hits the beach, shadows wrt the shadows on the pier, it just looks funny. Might be real, but it looks funny.
not saying the plane didn't crash somewhere, just not sure that it crashed there. Line where the plane hits the beach, shadows wrt the shadows on the pier, it just looks funny. Might be real, but it looks funny.
I an find nothing about it in US news. One would think there would be some coverage
True. The only page I could find was a blog where this exact picture was posted and claimed to be Miami a few days ago. Someone put a link that was broken to a Reuters story about the landing. Searching Reuters showed no story nor did I find one on Google. Given that Henning is in the suburbs of Miami and did not stumble across news on this yet I find the claim in the blog highly suspect. That does not mean I think it is a fake picture, not yet anyways, just that there is still more to be uncovered.Maybe it's a few years old. Or if everyone lived, they not have said more than a few paragraphs about it.
Is that a Beechcraft? Get it? (sorry)
The picture is old. It was "debated" in another forum several months (well, a long time) ago. Someone came up with the story on it but I forgot what it was. But it was determined that the picture was legit.
He ALMOST made it back to FLL.... you can see the pier and the airport in this Google Map:December, 2001:
N582HG (cn 46) Looking like a beached whale, the aircraft that ditched in the Atlantic on Dec. 6 after departing FLL.
OK, guys, got it! It's the middle link in my previous message. The prop bends and everything match up:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0205673/L/
He ALMOST made it back to FLL.... you can see the pier and the airport in this Google Map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...7&spn=0.037932,0.086002&t=h&z=14&om=1&layer=t
OK, guys, got it! It's the middle link in my previous message. The prop bends and everything match up:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0205673/L/
He ALMOST made it back to FLL.... you can see the pier and the airport in this Google Map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...7&spn=0.037932,0.086002&t=h&z=14&om=1&layer=t
I still find it odd that people would be (or would be allowed to be) sunbathing next to an airplane wreck, so either the people in the foreground are Photoshopped in, or they're really die-hard sun worshippers.
I have NO context (date, place, or otherwise) for this photo. It was in a collection of photos in an email titled "things you won't see everyday" my sis-in-law sent me.
However, based on the comment above that it might be a Convair, I found this:
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20041204-0
Maybe? Or perhaps:
[EDITED: THIS IS THE RIGHT ONE, SEE ADDITIONAL MESSAGE BELOW WITH ANOTHER PICTURE FROM A DIFFERENT ANGLE]
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20011206-0&lang=en
Or, even this one, which "came to rest on on the beach in the surf line" (however, looking at a Google Maps photo of the departure airport, runway 8, beach, doesn't show a pier anywhere nearby, so that's doubtful to be the correct record):
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19970630-0
OK, guys, got it! It's the middle link in my previous message. The prop bends and everything match up:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0205673/L/
He ALMOST made it back to FLL.... you can see the pier and the airport in this Google Map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...7&spn=0.037932,0.086002&t=h&z=14&om=1&layer=t
You're right, looks like it, they must have spun around in the landing.
I still find it odd that people would be (or would be allowed to be) sunbathing next to an airplane wreck, so either the people in the foreground are Photoshopped in, or they're really die-hard sun worshippers.