Fernanda Vogel, 20, Brazilian model
Mcklinton
"top model" who apparently drowned on Saturday after a helicopter crash. The
body was found near Santiago, about six mile northeast of the crash site (about
seventy miles south of Sao Paulo).
She was travelling with her borfriend Joao Paulo Diniz, the son of a
supermarket magnate when the helicopter went down in rough waters. According
to Diniz and the co-pilot -- who survived -- everyone made it out of the
helicopter and tried to swim to shore. Vogel said she had stomach cramps and
tried to float until help could arrive. No one was wearing life-jackets.
The body of the pilot was found on Tuesday.
Somebody was just recently posting how they thought helicopters were a very
dangerous way to travel. I guess this is more proof.
There was very little about Vogel, other than she was a successful model, and
was born in Rio de Janeiro.
Dana Linton
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hkr...@capu.net
I was in a helicopter crash about 30 years ago in West Virginia when I worked
for the AP. It was a pretty scary several minutes. We crashed into a school
yard near Morgantown. My understanding is that the engine "blew." The pilot
"rotated" us down, very fast and very hard. Oil was spewing everywhere. There
were three of us aboard, including the pilot. No one was hurt.
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Tregembo
<hkr...@capu.net> wrote in message news:3B6B1EC8...@capu.net...
Helicopters, my only phobia. I have a theory that some day some pencil neck
geek physicist will be doodling after lunch and announce, "Hey, I just
figured it out. Helicopters CAN'T fly. And at that exact second every
helicopter and every bumble bee will fall to the ground dead.
Ray Arthur
LJD
all of the idiots who I have to watch out for. Motor vehicle deaths far out
weigh the helicopter crash fatalities. It's in the statistics. Helicopter
or any other aviation fatality is just a little more exotic death and gets
more attention.
LJD
Mcklinton <mckl...@cs.comNOSPAM> wrote in message
news:20010803174910...@ng-cv1.news.cs.com...
J.D. Baldwin
In the previous article, LJD <k...@kak.net> wrote:
> Hmmm..I feel more comfortable in a helicopter than I do on the roads
> with all of the idiots who I have to watch out for. Motor vehicle
> deaths far out weigh the helicopter crash fatalities. It's in the
> statistics. Helicopter or any other aviation fatality is just a
> little more exotic death and gets more attention.
What statistics? Where? Helicopters are fairly dangerous beasts even
when they're high-end, multi-engine ones, being maintained and flown
by experienced professionals. General aviation helos are just too
unspeakably scary even to contemplate.
BTW, you probably *don't* really "have a greater chance of dying on
the way to the airport than from the airliner crashing." (Depending
on a few variables that change with each individual situation.) And
yes I *do* have the stats on that one.
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