SUV plows into Vancouver airport

[kevind]

Mmmmmmm...maybe SUV's should be banned in Vancouver along with small planes.


http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2009 ... 6-qmi.html


SUV plows into Vancouver airport

Pilot crashes into airport, but it's not what you think

By BOB MACKIN, QMI Agency


A sport utility vehicle crashed into the international departures terminal at Vancouver International Airport before 7 a.m. Tuesday morning.

A black Honda Pilot driven by a male valet mounted a curb outside the Fairmont Vancouver Airport Hotel and careened through plate glass doors, eventually stopping near the Delta Airlines check-in counter, according to an eyewitness.

"We could see this SUV coming inside the airport area where people are checking into their flights, the vehicle is spinning and sliding on the floor as it's coming towards the ticket booth," Terry Giannakos told CBC Radio in Vancouver.

Giannakos said there were pieces of glass and metal flying.

"It was quite spectacular when it was happening in real time," he said. "It was surreal."

Giannakos estimated around 150 people were waiting at airline check-in counters in the area, but miraculously no injuries.


Vancouver International Airport is the official airport of the 2010 Winter Olympics.

[username:]

Hahaha, Wow! Pictures please.

[moocow]

[AntiNakedMan]

Great reporting as usual... I think the story would've been better if it ACTUALLY was a Honda Pilot...

[Inverted2]

This has all the hallmarks of an Al Qaeda attack.

I should be a reporter

[Joe Blow Schmo]

Vancouver International Airport is the official airport of the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Strange, and here I thought Regina airport would make a much better 'official airport'

[KAG]

I nomonate that driver for next season's Canada's worst driver.

[Ralliart]

Did they Taser the vehicle to bring it to a stop?

[buck82]

Nah its a ford, so it stopped all on its own

[linecrew]

I just want to know, was there a mechanical fialure (ie. throttle stuck or brake failure) or is it a case of yet another driver that has no business being at the well of thousands of pounds of metal, plastic and rubber hurtling themselves down public roads?

[turbo-prop]

My guess, they where late for work and couldn't find any parking with all the construction.

[genetic jack hammer]

I just want to know, was there a mechanical fialure (ie. throttle stuck or brake failure) or is it a case of yet another driver that has no business being at the well of thousands of pounds of metal, plastic and rubber hurtling themselves down public roads?

Don't make no difference. Flight crew and still going to be thoroughly harassed by CATSA employee's (and I use that term loosely).

[KT111]

That'll buff right out.

[mdscientist61]

Maybe the driver of the SUV was inspired by these guys:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/offbea ... arking.cnn

[. ._]

They should ban SUVs for the Olympics. They'll do more damage than any terrorist in Super Cub.

-istp

[Inverted2]

Put it in H



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al6ndfn-Bic