Maybe he didn't have it up too loud.
Maybe he was listening to Pink Floyd's track "One of the days (I'm going to cut you into little pieces)" from the album "Meddle" (1971).
No, not for the title but for the section with the helicopter guitar riff.
If he left the front door at around 03:00 into the track and the helicopter hit him at around 03:28 then it would have been the ultimate in immersive musical experiences.
For those of you that only know the drummer from Pink Floyd as that twat who let the Top Gear Crew drive his ferrari Enzo then the clip is a good opportunity to get to know him as that twat in the suave headband and "I've come to clean the pool" moustache
I found the responses quite funny here, its not the ipod's fault, its the moron driving the ipod. As for blaming the pilot, thats idiotic, I'm quite sure that the pilot didn't intend crashing, most pilots would much rather keep their aircraft in the air. When a helicopter crashes, you have very little glide time and control when you auto-rotate to land, you just pick a open area and try land it there, and thats if you are lucky enough to auto-rotate before the blades lose momentum. I actually agree with this article. I've seen uni kids almost hit by trams and cars because they couldn't hear it coming, if you can't hear a helicopter falling out the sky then you have your volume WAY to loud.
Safety officials are investigating a close call between an Indonesian passenger jet and a group of construction workers at Perth Airport last week.
It is believed a Garuda jet inbound from Bali aborted one attempted landing after the pilot queried traffic controllers about vehicles on the runway.
The Garuda jet then narrowly missed hitting the workers when it appeared to misjudge a second approach.
No one was hurt in the incident and the Australian Transport Safety Bureau says it is speaking to the plane's crew and air traffic controllers to find out what happened.
Maybe he didn't have it up too loud.
Maybe he was listening to Pink Floyd's track "One of the days (I'm going to cut you into little pieces)" from the album "Meddle" (1971).
No, not for the title but for the section with the helicopter guitar riff.
If he left the front door at around 03:00 into the track and the helicopter hit him at around 03:28 then it would have been the ultimate in immersive musical experiences.
For those of you that only know the drummer from Pink Floyd as that twat who let the Top Gear Crew drive his ferrari Enzo then the clip is a good opportunity to get to know him as that twat in the suave headband and "I've come to clean the pool" moustache
And if he was on acid, well what a freaky experience
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if i live under a flight path, and i listen to my ipod to drown out the noise from the planes, does that mean there is more chance that a plane will land on my head?
yup...expect to die any day now.
I suspect it's the electronic interference that the iPod produces acts as a beacon and confuses the aircrafts gps. In a state of panic the aircraft will attack the iPod in an attempt to kill it this protecting the rest of the swarm.
Also at risk are deaf people....especially those with cochlea implants
He could have had really good in ear monitors that cut out all the sound and was listening to Pink Floyd at the time. Seriously though, yeah, walkmans have been around for ages, and even though earphone technology has progressed a lot, sensationalism and jealous iPod haters turn it into something 'newsworthy'.
Yeah but he did fly home in a helicopter from the Top Gear shoot instead of driving his Enzo.
I'm Afraid that that says wanker in very big letters indeed.
Even before the very gratuitous book plugs are taken into account.
Besides, it was Sid Barret that was the genius in Pink Floyd, alas he burned so very brightly and all too briefly.
