[Hooligan]

What amazing LAPD cops, fantastic! Hope the pilot is making a good recovery.

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/273962

[nallen]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/plane-hit-by-train-after-crashing-train-tracks-california-2022-01-10/

Clucking bell!

[Iceman]

Already covered here, only a few posts down.

Iceman

[Nero]

From the cop's perspective...

[timjenner]

Was that pilot having the luckiest day of his life or the unluckiest?

[Gasbag]

I’d love to see the wording on the insurance form!

[Nero]

I’d love to see the wording on the insurance form!

I made a lovely forced landing and then a train came and hit me! They didn't even stop to exchange insurance.

~ Scott

[PeteSpencer]

BBC 6 oclock news showed footage from a different point of view perhaps from a cops body camera of an old boy bleeding heavily from the forehead being dragged from the aeroplane less that 20 seconds before the train hit.

[Iceman]

@PeteSpencer, that video is shown in Nero’s post above.

Iceman

[PeteSpencer]

@PeteSpencer, that video is shown in Nero’s post above.

Iceman

Yep, that's the one:
Kinda lucky the train stayed on the tracks: there was a whole queue of stationary traffic on the road alongside the track.

[Flintstone]

See now, if that had been a Cirrus it would have drifted downwind under its parachute into the puppy farm orphanage and thereby have avoided the railway line.

[Dave W]

"Train! Train! Whoop, Whoop, Pull Up! Pull Up!"

(I'm disappointed in you lot; you'd normally have got to that joke well before me. )

[pullup]

Why doesn’t that train show any signs of braking? I can’t see it slowing down or hear any screeching of brakes at all.

I have been on trains which have come to a sudden stop. Maybe not as fast as this one but there seems to be no effort at avoiding the collision except the horn!

[patowalker]

Effective June 24, 2005, the rule requires that locomotive horns be sounded at all public grade crossings at least 15 seconds, but not more than 20 seconds before entering a crossing.[6] This rule applies when the train speed is below 45 mph (70 km/h). At 45 mph or above, trains are still required to sound their horn at the designated location (usually denoted with a whistle post).

I find it a pleasant sound, when heard at night from a distance.

[Bill McCarthy]

A train a quarter mile long carrying maybe 3000 tons of freight takes a fair bit of stopping.
There are plenty of “tube” vids of trains ploughing through 40ft lorries etc.