Flying car crashes near Vernon, B.C., school

[james_davis_nicoll]

Two people have been injured after an experimental flying car crashed into a tree Friday morning near a school in Vernon, B.C.

The aircraft clipped a fence behind Vernon's Ellison Elementary School, hit the tree and crashed a few metres from school property just before 9 a.m. PT.

Made by a Florida company, the flying car is a combination of a plane engine, propeller and parasail attached to a dune buggy.

Comments

[azurelunatic]

I guess it's the future.

[twoeleven.livejournal.com]

Any other pictures available? It looks like the prop is missing a blade, which is a pretty serious aviation accident.

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

Was there a "MEEP! MEEP!" sound and a plume of dust nearby? That "vehicle" sounds like it should have had a JATO unit tacked on.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Caption: why flying cars are most probably a really bad idea.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Yes. More axes on which you'll have to watch out for imbeciles.

[agent-mimi.livejournal.com]

the flying car is a combination of a plane engine, propeller and parasail attached to a dune buggy

Well there's your problem.

[ice-hesitant.livejournal.com]

They should have used a Hummer.

[dexitroboper (from livejournal.com)]

I blame the Department of Jetpack Suppression http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/skinhorse/series.php?view=archive&chapter=32976

[timgueguen.livejournal.com]

Speaking of jetpacks....
http://www.out-at-home.com/archives/2895