{"id":473,"date":"2011-06-13T07:07:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T05:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/?p=473"},"modified":"2011-06-13T07:07:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T05:07:41","slug":"pilot-dies-as-goodyear-zeppelin-crashes-in-germany-photos-and-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/2011\/06\/13\/pilot-dies-as-goodyear-zeppelin-crashes-in-germany-photos-and-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot dies as Goodyear zeppelin crashes in Germany ! photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a246cb021816c9f476ac16cb834b7362\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-2865779868887008\";\r\n\/* Android box *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1345074415\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Goodyear-branded airship\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namedevelopment.com\/blog\/archives\/blimp3.gif\" alt=\"Goodyear-branded airship\" width=\"200\" height=\"118\" \/>A Goodyear-branded A60 airship burned and crashed in Germany on Sunday evening with one death, the ship\u2019s pilot.  The three passengers, all journalists, survived the crash.  It appears the blimp caught fire following one or more prop strikes during landing at the Reichelsheim airport, south of Frankfurt, after a local flight.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot was Australian <a title=\"Mike Nerandzic\" href=\"http:\/\/nerandzic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Nerandzic<\/a> [<a title=\"Mike Nerandzic pilots the Good Year Blimp\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/christianpayne\/5651461930\/\" target=\"_blank\">photo<\/a>]; it appears he may have saved his passengers at the risk of his own life.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Goodyear blimb on fire in Germany\" src=\"http:\/\/a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-ash4\/255601_1585995069737_1831608824_1034669_2907815_n.jpg\" alt=\"Goodyear blimb on fire in Germany\" width=\"457\" height=\"343\" \/><\/p><!--CusAds0-->\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Pilot dies as Goodyear zeppelin crashes in Germany\" src=\"http:\/\/static3.hln.be\/static\/photo\/2011\/2\/11\/4\/20110613003220\/media_xl_4231549.jpg\" alt=\"Pilot dies as Goodyea zeppelin crashes in Germany\" width=\"468\" height=\"264\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The accident happened at the Reichelsheim aerodrome, near Friedberg in central Germany as the aircraft was coming in to land.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Goodyear blimp crash\" src=\"http:\/\/bilder.bild.de\/fotos-skaliert\/rauchfahne-21541572-mbquer-18341502\/2,h=343.bild.jpg\" alt=\"Goodyear blimp crash\" width=\"457\" height=\"343\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two metres from the ground the pilot told his three passengers, all journalists, to jump to the ground while he tried to land safely, said a report on the Bild website, one of whose photographers had been on board.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"zeppelin_crash\" src=\"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/mainpicts\/zeppelin_crash.jpg\" alt=\"zeppelin_crash\" width=\"194\" height=\"259\" \/>Once the three journalists evacuated the zeppelin, it climbed back up to 40 metres but then caught fire for reasons not yet clear, said police.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses reported hearing a loud noise from the engine and smelling petrol fumes.<\/p>\n<p>The zeppelin had been making a promotional flight to mark a local festival.<\/p>\n<p>The journalists who escaped were the photographer from Germany&#8217;s Bild magazine and two from RTL television.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Pilot dies as Goodyear zeppelin crashes in Germany\" src=\"http:\/\/bilder.bild.de\/fotos-skaliert\/verkohlte-reste-21541509-mbquer-18341584\/1,h=343.bild.jpg\" alt=\"Pilot dies as Goodyear blimp crashes in Germany\" width=\"457\" height=\"343\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 9pt\"><em>(text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/breaking-news\/pilot-dies-as-zeppelin-crashes-in-germany\/story-e6frf7jx-1226074137486\" target=\"_blank\">Herald Sun, AAP<\/a>, <a title=\"airships.net\" href=\"http:\/\/www.airships.net\/blog\/goodyear-blimp-crash-germany\" target=\"_blank\">airships.net<\/a>; photos: <a href=\"http:\/\/bilder.bild.de\/fotos-skaliert\/rauchfahne-21541572-mbquer-18341502\/2,h=343.bild.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">bild.de<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Goodyear-branded A60 airship burned and crashed in Germany on Sunday evening with one death, the ship\u2019s pilot. The three passengers, all journalists, survived the crash. It appears the blimp caught fire following one or more prop strikes during landing at the Reichelsheim airport, south of Frankfurt, after a local flight. The pilot was Australian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8,24,28,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}