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What was the purpose of the fire extinguishers? To put out the plane after it crashed?
by beart 4y ago
What was the purpose of the fire extinguishers? To put out the plane after it crashed?
- gonzo41 4y agoAll I can think is the extra weight on his legs my break his tib/fib, which would not be good.
- mannykannot 4y agoIt would have made for a more gripping video: some real drama for once, with some real rather than badly-acted tension.
- arlcode 4y agoThat's anyones guess. I doubt that by the time he got too the plane there would have been anything left worth extinguishing? Perhaps too prevent a forest fire? Although that would've been equally futile. Maybe someone who intentionally crashes a plan for a few YouTube clicks isn't the brightest bulb in the chandelier after all.
- beeboop 4y agoI think he probably has them for just that reason - to put out any fire his crash might start. He knew there is massive, massive liability and jail time for deliberately doing something that causes a fire and can potentially destroy miles of trees, homes, and people.
- cryptonector 4y agoThose must be some fire extinguishers if he could use just two of them to put out fires spanning "miles of trees, homes, and people"!
- codebolt 4y agoEvery fire starts small. And besides, the guy has already demonstrated that he lacks critical thinking skills.
- josephcsible 4y agoIt's unlikely that you'd land near your crashed plane if you jumped out of it while it still had enough altitude for your parachute to work. By the time you got to your plane, if a fire were going to get big, it already would have.
- Breza 4y agoThe first thing he did after landing was head to the crash site. Not saying he could have actually stopped a forest blaze with fire extinguishers (it's not like wildland firefighters use them) but that might have been what he had planned.
- shkkmo 4y agoWell, sure, that's where the lack of critical thinking skills comes in. Though, de'd still probably get there before it spread to miles and miles...he just wouldn't have had much impact when he did even if it was only a few dozen yards in size.
- unfocussed_mike 4y agoHe is a fairly skilled parachutist and was wearing a skydiving rig. He also knew where he was putting his plane down. So he might have got to it. But on the other hand he's also an idiot. Nevertheless he at least thought he might have to do this.
- sundvor 4y agoOne of the things I was most impressed by was how he managed to aim for some camera worthy bushes to land in when there were SO many better options for safety. I wasted an inordinate amount of time analysing the whole thing myself, including but not limited to finding the location based on geographic features - and then testing in Flight Simulator. I'm pretty sure I wasn't the only one. I'm disappointed he's not thrown in jail for reckless endangerment.
- danielbarla 4y agoAlternatively, he could have been thinking about his next hit YouTube video already, titled "See, this is why I always jump with two fire extinguishers on me!".
- picsao 4y ago
- aurora72 4y agoThere are hundreds if not thousands of big forest fires across the earth. How many of them started with a plane crash? None.
- simonh 4y agoNumber of planes deliberately crashed into a forest known to be prone to forest fires? Also probably none. There's always a first time though.
- NovemberWhiskey 4y agohttps://www.sltrib.com/news/2021/06/20/flatt-fire-is-largest/ https://www.sltrib.com/news/2021/06/20/flatt-fire-is-largest...
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- KennyBlanken 4y agoTo get to the gopros if the plane was on fire. An extinguisher that small is basically useless except for very temporarily beating back the fire to get to something/someone.
- VBprogrammer 4y agoThat seems like the best explanation. After all the whole jump was futile if he didn't recover the footage.
- someweirdperson 4y agoPossibly not fire extinguishers. They might be smoke canisters, used for a nice visual effect by sky divers.
- CrimsonCape 4y agoLooks like water bottles if you ask me, which would be a necessity in that area.
- NorwegianDude 4y agoI would guess that people who goes skydiving usually don't go up in the plane alone...
- hatsunearu 4y agoIt appears that he actually made a ton of effort to prevent a fire from erupting from the crashed plane, which is really, ironically, the smoking gun that this was a planned crash. For instance, the apparent reason why the engine stopped working isn't due to mechanical failure of the engine (very common in old ass prop planes, just as your Hyundai might blow up, due to oil starvation, spun bearings, rods grenading itself, etc), but rather running out of fuel. He purposefully brought not enough fuel to kill the engine, and secondarily prevent a fire. It was also strongly speculated that he filled one of the fuel tanks with water, probably in an attempt to prevent a fire from erupting.
- withinboredom 4y agoAn empty tank is a more dangerous tank. An empty tank is full of vapor, which is the bit that explodes, not liquid.
- hutzlibu 4y agoBut after that, there is no more gasoline left for burning.
- withinboredom 4y agoA tank full of gas won't explode if punctured, but there might be a fire if it leaks near something hot enough. An empty tank will explode with just the slightest spark. A half tank just depends on where it gets punctured, but with gravity and all, it's likely to be the bottom half that gets punctured.
- throwaway0a5e 4y agoCars use in-tank pumps turned by brushed electric motors. Why don't they blow up when empty? Even in an empty fuel tank the vapors are way to rich to ignite. You might get a good flash if you introduce air and ignition at the same time but odds are you won't get any sort of sustained fire.