Chelyabinsk meteorite nearly brought down the plane

[bananas]

Source: RBC (Russia)

New details have become stories with the Ural meteorite. Celestial body, caused the damage to the Chelyabinsk region billion, nearly brought down the plane, coming to the gate.

"When approaching Chelyabinsk, already on the decline, were preparing for landing and saw a bright glow to starboard" - told the NTV crew commander liner Bombardier CRJ-200 Tatarstan Airlines "Ak Bars Aero" Alexander Arkhipov.

According to the co-pilot of a celestial body heat scorched his face. However, he had noticed that the car is divided into several chapters.

"Look, he broke into three pieces. Later I saw these huge chunks. They all flew to the side, burning," - says the co-pilot Sergei Kotov.

Both pilots emphasize that this catastrophe on Earth looked quite different. They are currently studying the video and witnesses, according to their surprised that the meteorite did not prevent the landing of the aircraft.

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Read more: http://top.rbc.ru/incidents/18/02/2013/845564.shtml

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Translated from Russian by Google.

Came across the story at http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=31118.msg1014318#msg1014318
where they're also discussing electrophonic sounds from meteors and spacecraft.

[Duer 157099]

1. Google translate needs some work n/t

[Summer Hathaway]

2. Why?

What part of a car being divided into several chapters do you not understand?

[Duer 157099]

4. *snort*

[get the red out]

8. I am so glad

that I hadn't made it to the soda machine before reading that, LOLOL.

[awoke_in_2003]

10. So says...

the copilot of a celestial body

[Ikonoklast]

18. "When approaching Chelyabinsk, already on the decline, were preparing for landing ..."

Gee, I admit the city looks a little ragged, but does he have to slam it to the entire world?

That co-pilot is a real jerk.

[Javaman]

30. The kindle car. nt

[HoneychildMooseMoss]

3. "According to the co-pilot of a celestial body"

[christx30]

5. So it wasn't a natural meteor.

It was a crashed space ship. I KNEW IT! Where's that baby with the red cape?

[SkyDaddy7]

15. "crashed spaceship"???

Last I heard it was a secret weapon being tested by those evil Americans!! LOL!!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

17. Good thing I read your comment before dialing 911. I thought I was having a stroke.

[Coyotl]

19. I thought my dyslexia was relapsing.

[Incitatus]

21. I assumed it was a Yahoo writer. nt

[ManiacJoe]

29. Bing's translator does a little better.

[valerief]

6. I hadn't known Chelyabinsk was already on the decline.

If it only had a gun, this could have been prevented.

[Plucketeer]

7. It would've taken

a "good guy" with a meteorite to neutralize this debacle.

[valerief]

9. Boom!

No pun intended.

[bananas]

12. lol - I'm so used to google translate, I think it's normal

I couldn't understand why everyone was making fun of the story.
Then I went and read it again.
Now I can't stop laughing

[awoke_in_2003]

11. Kicking just for the wonderful translation...

[jpak]

13. It made a sound - like someone shaking a can of plums

[Webster Green]

26. Oscar!

[tawadi]

14. Might've been an interesting article

in Russian. lol

[awoke_in_2003]

16. I don't know...

it is pretty interesting in "English"

[colorado_ufo]

20. "Look! He broke into three pieces!"

Billion what?

[Javaman]

31. All three! - Lee Mercer is running for office in Russia. nt

[jsr]

22. New details have become stories alright

[cartach]

23. You had to be there and

you had to be Russian.

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. I love the idea of Commander "Ak Bars Aero" Alexander Arkhipov

it would be like Group Captain "Milky Way" Bigglesworth:

[James48]

25. black rectangle...

My God....It's full of stars!

[JimDandy]

27. LOL.

Pretty awful translation. Reads fine in the original article and I'm rusty with my translation skills.

[CreekDog]

28. purple monkey dishwasher