subject: The Most Bizarre Cause for a Plane Crash: A Crocodile [print this page] The Most Bizarre Cause for a Plane Crash: A Crocodile
The local time on August 25th, by 2010, the democratic republic of Congo, a small plane crashed, including one British pilot in 20 people was killed. And the culprit of the plane crash is actually a crocodile.
A crocodile jumped out during the process of flight caused passengers around panicked and lost balance, and then plane crashed soon. The twin-engine plane crashed on a civilian building which is only a few hundred meters away from the destination. 39-year-old co-pilot Chris Wilson and 62-year-old pilot Belgian Danny Mott both died in the accident.
On August 25th, this small plane took off from the capital Kinshasa and destination is an airport located in Bandundu area. Before the crash, the airplane did not have any apparent machinery fault.
According to the report from "Youth Africa", the report and the testimony of the only survivor showed that the cause of crash is one crocodile jumped out from a traveling bag, triggering a passengers panic. The passengers hid the crocodile in bag with plane and hoped to sell it for a good price after landing, unexpectedly, when the plane prepared to land on Bandundu, crocodile suddenly escaped. Frightened stewardess hurried escaped to the cockpit, followed by a large group of passengers. Despite the pilot tried his best to control the plane, the plane finally lose balance and crashed.
Ironically, the crocodile survived from the crash. After the rescue workers found it, it was killed by swords. Fortunately, the owner of the building was not at home at that time and escaped from this disaster.
We all know it is forbidden to bring with any animal or other dangerous objects when taking the flight, such as guns, knives, and wine, etc. But you would feel confused how this passenger went through the safety-check successfully before taking the flight. The airport officials were investigating the matters. After the plane crashed, the rescue workers found the only one who was survived. He told them a secret. When the plane was prepared to land, he took out his iphone out and could not help to make a phone call to his fiance immediately after landing. Then he suddenly found one crocodile was climbing to him and he did not know why. The workers asked him to take out his iphone, they found there is a crocodile design in his iphone case cover which was bought from online store http://www.dinodirect.com/iphone-cases-f-cell-phone-pda-accessories/. It maybe the reason for the crocodile escaped from the back-pack.