On Nov 14, 1:41*pm, mm wrote:
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:24:11 -0800, Oren wrote:
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:26:07 -0800 (PST), RicodJour
wrote:

Posted in another newsgroup. *You don't get an idea of the scale of
the thing until it goes over.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3FZtmlHwcA

Maybe it needed an oil change :-)

How they knew this would happen and caught it on video is be beyond
me.

I thought about that too.

How does Funniest Home Videos have all those pictures of people doing
nothing special and then falling down?



For those with *dial-up, the video is only 40 seconds long....

So iirc about 10 minutes to dl with dial-up. * But watching it won't
answer these questions.

The answer is simple. It was a failuire of the governor. Resulted in
overspeed. One blade failed due to exceeding stress limit. Unbalance
caused remainder of problem. The governor failure was mentioned
somewhere in one of the shows.

No need to go into any "conspiracy theories" simple engineering
explanations cover it.

Harry K