"Denver Plane Crash Causes Hundreds to Lie, Make Uneducated Judgments" [link: cnn, dp] This should be the official title of the headline in tomorrow's paper. So this is what happened. I was watching TV and I got a call from my mom. She told me that there had been a plane crash and asked if it was near my house. It was. Here is the map.  So. I was close. I walked outside and there was the 9news helicopter flying right above me. It was weird. I could see the smoke coming from a few blocks down. Its when I got back inside that the problem started. I was watching 9news and they started getting calls from eye-witnesses. Most of them were fine, but then I kept on hearing people say that they heard a loud bang/crashing sound. This made sense until they said where they were when they heard it. These people were further away than I was. I thought that maybe it was because I was in the basement, so my roommate went to the apartment upstairs and asked Tina & Christian if they heard the crash. They didn't even know that there was a crash. So yes, I realized that the people calling in were most likely just trying to get on TV, because there was no such noise, not one heard from 6 blocks away at least. The best was this woman calling who was driving on Federal when it happened. Right. You were driving in rush hour traffic with your window down, your radio off, in your car that emits no audible noise, and for some reason there was no sound coming from other motorists which allowed you to gear the sound or a wing getting hit from 12 blocks away. Glad the investigators will have that expert eye-witness testimony in case they need to get some facts straight in the investigation. What happened next was even better. This guy called in who lives a little closer to the crash than we do, and he said he saw it and heard it and saw the plane fall down, etc. Then he proceeds to lecture the listening audience of KUSA, 9news, Denver, COlorado on how he has pictorial accounts of "hundreds of planes" flying "too low" around his house "all the time", and how he has "made complaints to the FAA on several occasions on this terrible problem" and the best of all: That "its too bad it takes a tragedy like this to make the FAA see that something has to be done." This guy is almost as good as Jack Van Impe [audio]. There is absolutely no way that mid-air collision had anything to do with flying to low. Nick's brother [united airlines pilot] put it best when he said "Its like saying they crashed because they are airplanes." This guy probably just got fired from a government job for slapping an intern on the butt and now hold a grudge that he chose to take out on the FAA. To him, I say shut up. All of the stupid citizens aside, it is quite scary that it was so close to my house and I feel horrible for the four that have died and their families, and whoever lived in that house. Hopefully they will get through this okay.
 
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