Just curious, didn't people die in some of these accidents? If so, wouldn't this be considered snuff?

I had the same thought... kind of classless to call them dimwits... at the very least in some cases it seems clear that mechanical issues were at least partly to blame...

*discuss

cuz people die in it.. but we've had other videos in the past where people die and they were allowed.. i think the most recent example was a huge explosion in canada..

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The first 3 minutes seem to be ok but the last minute is in my opinion snuff.

Fine, I'll *discard, so nobody will be scarred for life

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What?! Discard?! Snuff is snuff, but this is newsworthy footage in my opinion, so it doesn't deserve to be discarded. I agree the tongue-in-cheek nature of the title is a bit appalling, and the Top Gun soundtrack doesn't help to make it not feel atrociously macabre. But, I don't think this isn't Siftworthy.

Mintbbb, I think you made a mistake for discarding this video.

*promote this back into mintbbb's queue.

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Um, hey Siftie, if you haven't noticed this is a discarded video, so please *promote it. Much appreciated, you worthless bucket.

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*return

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*promote...

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Thanks =) Modified the title to to something more suitable!

HAHAHA! Maybe people got hurt! Hehe.

(Please note I didn't vote for this video.)

mint, you've been on fire yourself lately with these submissions of yours! Great sntuff!

I'll upvote any video with John McCain in it. I think he piloted at least a few of these!

Oh yeah.. and happy fleet week, SF.

It isn't snuff if you can't see people dying.

I thought it was good until the last minute too.

I'm a pilot and I'm novoting this -- the tone is too smarmy for me. These are people falling to earth and getting maimed or killed (usually not even doing particularly Darwinesque things).

I won't give my opinion on all of the clips (unless you're really interested) but I will say that the second one appears to be a not-uncommon approach and landing on the incredibly challenging Runway 13 at the now-defunct Kai Tak airport.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Tak#Runway_13_approach

The last one, though, unlike the others, *is* a total Darwin award; the asshole Air Force pilot had a reputation for being a cowboy and had long sworn that he would manage to roll a B-52 heavy bomber before he retired. Unfortunately he took his crew with him when he augered in.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,982358-1,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Fairchild_Air_Force_Base_B-52_crash

Totally disagree with the EIA, darwin award/dimwit tags. There are too many chances for catastrophe and it takes too much skill to land any of those aircraft safely, WITHOUT the adverse conditions, to call ANY pilot dimwitted, IMO...