Nov 21 2009Huh?: "Plane Misses Runway, Lands In Lava"
A passenger plane headed for an airport in eastern Congo overshot the runway (spider solitaire) and ended up crash-landing in lava. Wicked! Of course, I'm making this cooler than it actually was because it wasn't molten lava and it wasn't in the middle of a volcano. Truthfully, I don't even know why I'm reporting this besides 1. I'm awesome and B. journalism.
The plane was flying from Kinshasa to Goma, and passengers had warned the crew that there were heavy clouds, Radio Okapi said.
An official from the U.N. mission in Congo, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he does not have permission to speak with media, said there were 117 passengers aboard.
Thankfully, nobody was injured. Oh -- and I love how people that don't have permission to speak are always speaking. Such rule-breakers! Now, not to honk my own bike horn or anything, but crash landing an airplane in lava isn't that impressive. Because one time I docked my pirate ship in the middle of an earthquake. Seriously, right in the middle. The epicenter. I know the terminology, it happened.
Plane misses runway, lands in lava [msnbc]
Thanks to iceman, who would have cooled the lava with his superpowers and made an ice skating rink.
Reader Comments
1. drbadnick - November 21, 2009 5:26 PM
fail
2. Soggymail - November 21, 2009 5:33 PM
I like turtles!
Oohhh and bacon is good for me!!
Lava is as tasty as a shiny penny glued to the underside of a bacon wallet, in a turtles pocket!!
3. CHRISYUN - November 21, 2009 5:34 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA OWNED
4. Johnny Okra - November 21, 2009 5:38 PM
Wow. This makes me wanna bake some tater tots.
5. Daisy - November 21, 2009 5:56 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back down where Max had to bring a pirate back from the the (mostly) dead, and tried to get out of it by talking about mutton lettuce and tomato sandwiches, and arguing with Baja about it.
6. andrew - November 21, 2009 6:29 PM
Dear Geekologist,
It has come to my attention that shits goin too slow on your site. You gotta start out-sourcing bro
-Andrew
7. Dean O'Shea - November 21, 2009 6:29 PM
Eh Daisy, nobody ever claimed the picture was an actual picture, it was just done to add " pazazz " to the article.
Y'know, like, if you're talking about how you like to bowl, and you put up a picture of someone else bowling, it's kinda just an EXAMPLE.
There was no claims it was real.
And no, you can't claim troll either, because you're just a general idiot.
8. mickey - November 21, 2009 6:58 PM
oh, its terrible!
9. har dee har har - November 21, 2009 7:14 PM
Truthfully, you're reporting this because bread-shoes.
10. einoj - November 21, 2009 7:15 PM
I can't belive how much better this blog is while being drunk. awesomw§!
11. KEVEERRROONNOOO - November 21, 2009 7:30 PM
I didnt know that africa could afford planes.... or bread shoes for that matter!
12. Dishy Dishyington - November 21, 2009 7:36 PM
@5, yeah!
@7, you must be new here.
13. KevEERRROONNOOO - November 21, 2009 7:46 PM
@12, I second your scholarly opinion.
@7, Don't mock her it only makes it worse!
14. Dean O'Shea - November 21, 2009 8:32 PM
Naw Dishy, I've been here ages, and it's called " biting trollbait so you can rage "
Derp, newfriend, you're not as smart as you think you are, trying to play the oldfriend card, while making yourself seem like a douche that's TRYING TOO HARD.
15. Otanx - November 21, 2009 9:07 PM
My question is why the passengers had to inform the crew that there were heavy clouds? Don't the pilots have those big window things in the front of the plane? Maybe the pilots had the little plastic blinds closed.
-Otanx
16. Dishy Dishyington - November 21, 2009 9:08 PM
Dean, so you're sayin' comment 7 was fake and meta troll bait designed to elicit responses like 12 & 13 ...but you realize comment 12 was meta meta troll bait ...just sayin'.
17. livingjetlag - November 22, 2009 2:41 PM
Welcome home, Daisy, I've missed you.
Since "non-molten lava" just means "rock," the story is essentially "Plane crashes into a field of @#$% rock, people actually survive somehow." I think MSNBC is having as slow a day as the Geekologie Writer, and are just screwing with their own headlines to kill time and avoid thoughts of suicide.
"Plane lands on pumice (MSNBC)" = boring.
18. That uncle who did that bad thing we don't speak about - November 22, 2009 4:56 PM
@15 - my thoughts exactly!!!
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We're having a little game of 'see who can fly the longest whilst blindfolded' up here in the front, and I'm totally kicking co-pilot Dave's ass, so I'd be grateful if someone could look out the window and tell me what the weather's doing."
19. Frank The Tank - November 22, 2009 11:20 PM
WTH daisy, who the hell are you and why is it that everytime I see your posts it makes me want to punch a baby while throwing a dog in a microwave on high at 37,000 feet????? You are about as useful as my grandma who can't drive anymore because she droe through the mall thinking it was a carwash.
20. Aaron - November 23, 2009 1:56 PM
Its the cover to The Budos Band's first album!!!
21. Rachel - November 23, 2009 2:20 PM
Hey!!! This is the town I live in!!!! On Geekologie!!! That's kinda fun!!!!
One of my organisations' landlords was on that flight...