You think your job is bad?

[San Diego]

At least you're not a rescue worker in San Jose.



Wastewater treatment workers drained a tank of raw sewage this morning to reveal a wrecked plane with three bodies inside, thought to be those of a flight instructor and two students, authorities said.

The plane, which crashed at a wastewater treatment plant Monday afternoon, is the same aircraft reported missing from a San Jose flight school that day, officials said.

On board were three people believed to be Japanese nationals, though the instructor is a U.S. resident, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor.

Officials found a flight log and a Japanese passport near the wreckage.

The crash occurred around 4 p.m. Monday, Gregor said.

FAA officials learned of the wreck when a pilot reported to Oakland Air Route Traffic Control Center that he had witnessed a plane go down around Gilroy. The center notified local authorities, who began searching and found the plane around 5 p.m., "broken up and submerged in a pool of sewage" at the wastewater treatment plant.

On Monday, rescue workers could not enter the tank, which is about 20 feet deep, because it was filled with raw sewage, Gregor said. Workers at the South County Regional Wastewater Authority -- which serves Gilroy and Morgan Hill -- pumped most of the sludge out of the tank this morning, he said.

.more at link.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/19/BAG2NN2CTL7.DTL

[TomInTib]

1. What a sh**ty way to go.

[northofdenali]

8. Beat me to it, Tom n/t

[maxsolomon]

2. i still think my job is bad

poor people - i hope they died on impact.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Was it the same tank Limbaugh and O'Lielly get their material from?

Just wonderin'

[Little Wing]

4. Wow. Kamikaze Scat Porn

That's hardcore

[durrrty libby]

5. Oh crap! That stinks!

[Rosemary2205]

6. We are still giving flight lessons to non-Americans?

[valerief]

7. LOL! nt