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snucks
Nov 3, 2008

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Hotel_(Los_Angeles)
A Los Angeles hotel near skid row, the site of multiple suicides and murders, the residence of two serial killers. Not the type of place most people would want to stay at.
Last year, after complaints of the water tasting funny, the naked corpse of a college student named Elisa Lam was found in the water supply tank. Hours before her presumed death, there's footage from the hotel's elevator of her:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TjVBpyTeZM
Either she was hallucinating somebody really was out to get her.

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snucks
Nov 3, 2008

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LaughMyselfTo posted:

Actually, the CIA faked Kennedy and killed the moon landing.
hosed up but true

snucks
Nov 3, 2008

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_5390
Airplane pilot windscreen retention bolts were too small, but the difference was imperceptible to the human eye so they were installed anyways. The windscreen flies off halfway through the flight, one of the pilots gets sucked out of the plane as the copilot hangs onto him. The copilot has to take an emergency landing while holding onto the pilot, as the flight attendants try and prevent people from freaking out at the sight of a presumably dead pilot smashing his frozen head against the plane's exterior.

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Lancaster's face was continuously hitting the direct vision window; when cabin crew saw this and noticed that Lancaster's eyes were opened but not blinking despite the force against the window, they assumed that Lancaster was dead. Atchison ordered the cabin crew to not release Lancaster's body despite the assumption of his death because he knew that releasing the body might cause it to fly into the left engine and cause an engine fire or failure which would cause further problems for Atchison in an already highly stressful environment.
Terrifying because of how such a small error can have such huge consequences in aviation, life-affirming that the situation was so well handled.

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