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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/...st/6996860.stm
Two people are believed to have died after a helicopter crashed in Lanarkshire.
The Squirrel aircraft came down in Jervis Wood near Lanark just after 1600 BST and was understood to have burst into flames.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said it had been led to believe two people were on board.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...ncopter115.xml
Colin McRae, the former world rally driving champion, is feared dead in a helicopter crash in Scotland.
The aircraft burst into flames after it came down in woodland near Lanark, at around 4.10pm.
Damn, I hope this is wrong. McRae is a legend.
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Why is it any worse than anyone else getting killed?
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Originally Posted by Cipher13 
Why is it any worse than anyone else getting killed?
I KNEW you were gonna say that.
It's not. WE'RE FANS OF HIS.
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oh ... oh man I hope this isn't true. I hope it was some other guy. That would seriously suck. What shitty news.... he's like the Michael Jordon of WRC. Damn. ... ****ing helicopters. I'm never getting in one. First Stevie Ray Vaugh, now this. Deathmachines.
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It has been confirmed. This is truly awful.
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What a crock of ****. He had his 5 yr old kid with him too. If you still believe God is real, you're truly delusional. I hate it when crap like this happens, and I don't care what kind of divine power you are, this doesn't make any sense. *****! Stupid god damn helicopters! I'm never EVER getting in one ever again. They kill too many people.
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Originally Posted by LyingSack
Stupid god damn helicopters! I'm never EVER getting in one ever again. They kill too many people.
That sounds a little extreme. People die in cars every day, but I'll bet you still get in them.
I don't know about helicopters, but flying in general is safer than driving. I'll bet that is true for helicopter as well. Death by helicopter crash is not something you hear about very often, and I don't think they kill many people at all.
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Was free. Now it's gone. Never to be seen again.
Off to join its brother and sister apps that could not
keep up with the ever updating iOS. RIP Nesen Probe.
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The more people I meet, the more I love dogs...
Women aren't stupid........................ men are ;)
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No ****ing way! I play my first Colin McRae game in 5 years and he goes and dies 2 days later. I was watching a YouTube video of him last week. Guy rolled his car over upside down and still almost won the competition. Phenomenon. Speech ****ing less.
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Originally Posted by LyingSack
He had his 5 yr old kid with him too.
While I was obviously shocked hearing about this on the news, they didn't mention anything about his kid… that makes it -if that's possible- even worse. 
He was such a great talented driver, always pushing the limits… what a great team Subaru ProDrive had in the 90s with Colin and Carlos Sainz…
Let's hope F1 drivers wear some black items and the ****ing damn F.I.A. can remember him today at Spa…
Descanse en paz.
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"Helcopters" do not kill people. Poor or inappropriate piloting, or flying a helicopter in inappropriate conditions is the culprit. In almost all cases, air accidents are due to pilot error, not aircraft failures, and certainly not aircraft design issues. I've flown in a helicopter-I even took my then 6-year old son up in one. It was a Bell model 47-you're pretty much out in the air while riding in this thing. Flying is almost always much safer than driving anything anywhere, and I am always bothered when people suggest that the aircraft or worse the type of aircraft is at fault in an accident.
I'm saddened to hear about Colin, but with his line of work, he risked dieing at high speed pretty much every day. Would it have been better for him to die in a wreck while racing?
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Dangit, I love Colin McRae. This is dumb. If I think of Colin's death, I can only imagine him flying off a cliff or something in his Subaru. This is very sad news. I feel sorry for his family too. Prodrive must be quite unhappy as well.
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I feel for the wife and daughter, Alison and Holly (if I remember correctly).
No matter how many times bad things happen, these sorts of things always take us by surprise.
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This truly sucks. I guess only the good do die young.
Originally Posted by LyingSack
If you still believe God is real, you're truly delusional.
Man... you can derail and flame in the most sensitive threads and not think twice about it.. unbelievable.. 
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Originally Posted by Jawbone54
I feel for the wife and daughter, Alison and Holly (if I remember correctly).
Yeah think of how we feel, then times it by 1000. 
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Originally Posted by Kevin
This truly sucks. I guess only the good do die young.
Man... you can derail and flame in the most sensitive threads and not think twice about it.. unbelievable..
I am not too sure God is real. He lets Rob continue to post on MacNN.
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Originally Posted by His Dudeness
I am not too sure God is real. He lets Rob continue to post on MacNN.
I don't think the NN admins are God. 
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we don't have time to stop for gas
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R.I.P
truly a horrible thing to read this morning.
he will be remembered as a icon in my book
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MI5 doesn't do evil. Just treachery, treason and armageddon.
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Originally Posted by Cipher13
Why is it any worse than anyone else getting killed?
I thought he designed computer games or somesuch thing.
Oh well..
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It was nice to see Rossi dedicate his GP won to Colin and his family.
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and what a race Rossi had.
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RIP.
Really sad that he's gone. This is the the video of the event Papernotes was talking about, and the picture that IceEnclosure posted. I hadn't seen it before, but it completely sums up what he was all about.
YouTube - Colin Mcrae
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That's a mad video, i've never seen that before. rolls the car and only just loses the race!
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I remember one WRC race where McRae was kicking the rear fender of his car back into place before rocketing away.
Truly a legend.
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Originally Posted by ajprice
Thanks for the link. I watched it when it happened, but haven't seen it since. I've tried telling a few people about it, but can't describe it well enough.
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Is that the one form this summer's X Games?
(Can't view it at work)
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I wanted to punch his navigator. During the replays of the roll you hear her in the car going "Left turn... WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
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Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
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He was a complete ****ing badass.
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