Boom!
Well I suppose I could mention the time that I worked for British Aerospace. Shortly after I left uni a friend of mine got me the cushiest job ever- accident investigation for British Aerospace (this was pre BAE merger). After the initial training all we had to do was wait around until a major accident had happened and should one of our craft have been involved we were flown out to the area and had to survey the damage, check every available source of evidence regarding the crash etc before presenting the findings (This may sound pretty intense but it was a walk in the park and I only saw a handful of them in my 1 years employment).

The most memorable of the crashes I saw was the site of a crashed airbus. It had occurred on a godawful deserted island in the Mediterranean. The plane itself had gone down a few weeks previous and the survivors were stranded on the island for a while.

Some of the passengers that survived believed that the accident was a good thing and a reason to go back to basics. They had constructed huts to live in out of parts of the plane wreckage, each member of this said 'tribe' were decorated in armour made from shrapnel from the plane too small to use for shelter. To be honest they really enjoyed their new way of life so much that they had decided to declare the island as their own country to live in.

The other survivors (the one that saw the accident as what it was (an electrical fault)) couldn’t wait to get back to civilisation and away from the Pro Crash Tin Nation.
(mon bison powered by magnets, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 12:49, 1 reply)

Is it
wednesday already?
(ragged, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 13:00, closed)