A series of unfortunate events: a confused helicopter pilot accidentally gives a signal that he’s been hijacked. British RAF fighters are scrambled so quickly to shoot the thing down, they go supersonic. Brits down below fear explosions and earthquakes. Boom.
21-year-old Redditor named Devin says that her house was destroyed by the horrific F-18 plane crash on Friday. That circled wreckage above? Her crib. She took it upon herself to start an Ask Me Anything thread on Reddit to share her crazy and disturbing story.
In a horrifying real-life cross between Happy Gilmore and a Bon Jovi song, a man accidentally shot himself in the heart with a 10cm nail while trying to un-jam a nail gun. Somehow, he survived.
REMINDER: Don’t put yourself behind a aeroplane powering up for take-off unless you want to be blown away and eat some cement. That’s exactly what happened to this woman at Maho Beach, Saint Maarten, famous for being right next to an airport runway.
The US Navy has published photos of the aftermath of the F/A-18D crash. They clearly show the damage on the apartments that got hit, along with the foam-covered grounds. It’s amazing how lucky the residents and the pilots were.
A Navy F-18 fighter just went down smack in the middle of a Virginia Beach apartment complex, demolishing buildings and leaving others ablaze after multiple explosions—the jet itself is an enormous flaming heap of jet wreckage.
Jumping out of a moving vehicle just before it plummets off a cliff is standard stuff for action movies and James Dean impressionists, but actually seeing it happen in real life is breathtaking. A tow-truck driver in Norway did just that, though, when the heavy truck he was towing slipped off the icy road.
And you thought walking into a mall fountain or falling flat on your face was bad. This lady took a long walk off a short pier on account of her need to text.
Seven US Marines were killed last night at the Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, when their helicopters collided in mid-air around 8pm. They were training for deployment to Afghanistan, according to USMC spokeswoman 1st Lt Maureen Dooley.
The 60.2m superyacht Yogi sunk under a Force 8 storm in the Mediterranean Sea. This video shows the Hellenic Air Force rescuing the passengers in the middle of the gale. It took only seven hours to sink after the authorities got the first mayday, according to the builder Mehmet Karabeyoglu:
