Interesting Links for 23-02-2014

[andrewducker]

• Plane full of skydivers hits plane full of skydivers. Everyone lives - with amazing headcam footage.
  (tags: crash video sky parachute airplanes )
• Researchers discover genetic variant linked to children who seek out more violent games and movies
  (tags: violence media genetics children )
• The Very Hungry Rust Monster
  (tags: comic dnd viaDraxar )

Comments

[nojay]

A while back someone I know in the Army was doing his qualifying parachute jumps before joining 3 Para. It was about the time the Iraq war was about to kick off and all the good-condition Hercules aircraft the RAF possessed were staging out to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus in preparation. This left the jump qualifications to be flown on the back-of-the-hangar planes that were a bit ropey, to say the least. As my friend said later, it was a good thing everyone on board had parachutes (two of his scheduled jumps were cancelled when the plane had to return to the airfield because of engineering problems).

[andrewducker]

Doesn't surprise me, sadly. Glad your friend survived it ok!