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Originally Posted by Boog
Those few people were just in shock by what they had just witnessed. It took a minute to register that it was real then anticipating whether it was likely to explode into flames or not. Processing the moment. It's not everyday a vehicle flies through power lines and drops onto the road in front of you. That's a lot to take in. Thankfully that secondary road wasn't busy with traffic at that time.
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I can attest to this. I was with a group of friends working at a camp over spring break during college in Florida (2003-ish). One of those small planes that carries a banner sounded awfully quiet and kept getting lower and lower and lower... then the banner started dragging in the water, then the plane went down in the water... it had those wheels that are permanently out so as soon as the wheels hit it slow motion flipped in the water. What felt like forever (maybe 30 seconds) we all just looked at each other, like, did that seriously just happen? Then we all sprinted towards the plane. It was in 3-4' of shallow water. We helped the pilot out, he was OK. Later that day we even helped pulled the plane onto the beach to where a truck put it on a trailer and pulled it away. Weird day.
There's also studies on this affect. People tend to take a good bit of time just to process wtf just happened. That's why you should support your local emergency services. They head towards the fires and gun shots when everyone else runs away.