"As it was going down it was getting louder and louder and then all of a sudden it was just quiet." described an eye witness via telephone interview Monday, "When it hit the ground, I didn't see it, but then there was just dead silence."
Saturday morning two planes collided in the skies over the small town of St. Brieux, Saskatchewan, and while such plane crashes, similar to this, crash all over the world, there are usually mitigating circumstances involved. Normally some evidence that would point investigators in the right direction, in hopes of solving the mystery of why two perfectly good aircraft, with two (presumably) capable pilots, met with such tragedy. As of the writing of this piece, nothing clear has been released by investigators.
The mystery that plagued me, though, ever since first learning of this tragedy this morning, is how the f*ck is it possible for two planes to collide head-on? If the air space over St. Brieux was congested with hoards of flying aircraft, one could plausibly concede that such traffic would be a contributing factor to the crash. However, being that St. Brieux (and area) is practically in the middle of nowhere, chances are that this factor is not a contributor to the accident.
So how the hell do you suppose that the ONLY two airplanes in the sky for virtually hundreds of miles around, managed to plow into one another. I speculated that one was flying out of the direction of the sun and the other was flying into it, but according to authorities, and given the time of day, this simply was not the case. So I am baffled. Not to 'toot my own horn', but I'm pretty good at deciphering a good mystery or puzzle, but this one's got me hooped.
All I know is the odds of something like this occurring, have got to be greater than winning the lottery. That's like the only two people standing in a desert, firing a gun into the air and winding up shooting one another to death. Astronomical odds and they managed to do it. It is senseless. Senseless that five innocents had to lose their lives, including that of an eleven year old boy, due to a fluke.
you are right to ask why, and how, this might happen, jeff. good posting!
ReplyDeleteit seems unlikely that two aircraft would even appear around such a place as St. Brieux, let alone at the same time, yet somehow they did. of course with deadly precision, they somehow collided.
it seems, to me, that the amount of airspace around st. brieux is probably sufficiently vast enough for two, or perhaps even fifty, or 500, aircraft to operate safely. Air space is good because there are, naturally, no other obstructions to impede flight -- except, of course, the odd bird and other planes.