There is absolutely nothing out of the ordinary about this. All aircraft avoid thunderstorms for many reasons other than just lightning and if you are just flying home from an air show it makes a lot more sense to wait till the storms are gone than risk losing a plane to a downdraft or something.

They have nothing to worry about, lighting doesn’t strike II

I was going to let it go until he called them both propellers AND rotors in once sentence. Jalopnik wouldn’t let an author say a car is turbocharged when it’s supercharged. What’s the difference?

That is not towing.....

Towing? This is why you guys should let FA die. If your “journalists” don’t know the extremely common and correct terminology why even write about it? You even use the correct term in the article. It’s like putting a burger on the grill and saying it’s stir-fried. That’s called a sling load by the way and is a long…

SICK PASS BY THE R8

This is exactly how that opening scene in fast and furious wouldve gone down in real life

HMMWV FOR SALE

It’s a story from August that other sites already covered in August, all working from the same press release.

Gizmag covered this story in August of 2015, presumably working off the same press release:

Ignore him. People (including me) are just upset Tyler left.

Hi Justin.

absolutely fake, but great nonetheless!

Anyone with an IQ over 80 can understand that correlation does not equal causation. Unbelievable. Even if this was valid, it’s not the speed that caused the deaths, it’s the shockingly low standards with which people are allowed to drive and the resulting otherwise avoidable “accidents.” Maybe we should lower the…

Oh boy, here we go.

In other words, these high-end attack helicopters, when properly equipped, are far more suited for a battlefield with a MANPADS threat present than their predecessors.

Love the Ford GT license plate haha, “F Enzo”

Fitting song at the end.

I’m not a pilot either. However, it appears as if the real culprit of the hard impact is gravity. If the earth had less mass the impact wouldn’t have been as severe.