5 most cowardly acts, Bashny.Net

1. We are drowning! Quick, lock the passengers!

In the ocean, it would seem, and now is not so closely to ships collided with each other how much in vain. What to say about the XIX century. However, one night in 1848, during a small storm, command the passenger ship "Anne" yet has managed to crash into another ship - it was called the "Hampton". This Hampton was more or less normal, but Anne promptly sank.

On board the sinking Anne were more than 100 passengers, peacefully rest in their cabins. We had to make a decision. Then the team sinking ship realized that lifeboats not enough at all. And no one else will suffice. Because Anne aboard any boat was not at all. Could be saved only after moving to the second vessel is injured.

And the team Anne deliberated, took the only possible in this situation, in their view, a decision they boarded the hatches of holds to its passengers whining in the face of imminent death did not prevent the gallant team to save their skins.

But this story is, oddly enough, turned out to be a good end. Passengers managed to escape from his alleged "grave." They all picked up a miracle to be in these places the ship - the third in this story.

Once in the safety of the passengers are happy to give testimony in court against obrekshey them to certain death team.
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2. It's just an earthquake, children ...

Being a teacher - a huge responsibility. This is known to all. He knew about it and a teacher from the Chinese province of Sichuan on behalf of Fan Mezong. So when an earthquake (meaning the event May 12, 2008, approx. Mixstuff.ru) he did what he should have. He said to his disciples: "Keep calm. This earthquake. " Perhaps the words of the teachers have had to act, if it were not for one small detail: the moment of their utterance, he ran out of the audience. Do not look back.

So, without stopping Mezong reached the middle school football field. And there is only slowed down, realizing that doing something wrong. China, of course, not particularly encouraging its citizens to have children, and throw them in a dangerous situation to fend for themselves, too, as it is not accepted. Especially when taking care of children - is your direct responsibility.

To honor Fana I must say that when the time came to explain his actions, he did not play up and get out, and said with all sincerity: "I have a very developed survival instinct. I've never been a daredevil, and I, in principle, does not care at all. " Honesty is for the teacher also, of course, a valuable asset, but the work of Fan Mezong still lost.



3. The aircraft then let himself somehow. And I'm here to molt

One day in July 1989, NATO radar operators recorded a Russian fighter jet approaching the border between East and West Germany. After a couple of minutes in the air up two fighter-interceptor squadron of the US Air Force, based in the Netherlands. More few minutes later the pilot reported that the Russian MiG-23 cuts through the air space ... without a pilot.

The situation was catastrophic - not because poltergeists have learned to control the plane, but because this huge piece of metal, stuffed with weapons, sooner or later, was bound to fall to the ground, and the bottom was Belgium and the space on the whole route were quite densely populated. < br />
It happened like this: The fighter pilot Colonel Nikolai Skuridin raised his car into the air from a military airfield Pomeranian Red Regiment. The plane was in full combat readiness. After about a minute after takeoff Skuridin recorded a decrease in engine speed and cotton in the left air intake. The plane began to decline. Skuridin decided that there was an explosion of the engine and, without thinking twice, catapulted.

Later, when the recorders were found, it became clear that a plane had everything in order. Six minutes after the bailout, he began again to climb until it reached position 12 kilometers. The sound, which is so frightened pilot, was just a small glitch works afterburner - nothing serious.

MiG continued automatic flight until it ran out of fuel and fell on a residential building on the border of Belgium and France. One person was killed.



4. mosey! The rest of the iceberg save

Titanic - the ship is not the only one who suffered from the meeting with an iceberg. In 1849, a ship with a beautiful name "Hannah", heading for Quebec, suffered a similar fate.

Hannah quickly plunged into the water on board - 200 passengers, and, as usual, lifeboats lacked. Rather there was only one, small. Realizing the hopelessness of the situation, the captain of the team jumped to the only life saving equipment and were as follows.

Unfortunately, passengers lucky Hannah is far less than the aforementioned Anne passengers - no other vessels in the area were observed. The only hope for salvation, paradoxically, turned out to be ... the same iceberg, which was responsible for the death of their ship.

Passengers moved to the block of ice, sat tight-tight waited for the miraculous rescue. And it came - after a few hours of being picked up by a ship sailing past. After all the mishaps passengers found themselves in the same port, which later brought their cowardly team - the last to hang out in the ocean for two days. It is difficult to imagine how "warm" was this meeting.



5. The boat is no place for the passengers! Do not I throw my bags!

In July 1880 the steamer Jeddah with Muslim pilgrims on board was heading in the direction of Mecca. It was a modern vessel with four roomy lifeboats. So that if anything could be saved everything. It would seem. But ...

On Aug. storm began, but so strong that the ship's boilers dislodged. This meant that moving the ship could no longer, and it ceaselessly rolling a giant steel cylinders. On top of that there was a small leak and the vessel was slow to settle.

Despite the fact that 900 pilgrims tirelessly pumped water, the situation was more than serious. The captain decided to prepare the boat. And suddenly it became clear that there is enough space only for the team, with all its household and belongings. The next morning, the captain ordered to pull the boat.

However, only the captain managed to get away. Two other boats of angry pilgrims repulsed and left on the board, a fourth thrown into the water without passengers.

On the way, the captain, confident that everyone else already resting on the ocean floor, came up with the story of the wreck and pilgrims, all of a sudden turned into a gang of brutal murderers.

A few days later the captain took a boat Scindia family, and he was able to tell his story in colors and paints. And when on August 10 Scindia reached the nearest port, the captain waited for the big confusion - at the port was abandoned by his ship, which turned out to be dragged in tow boat called "Antenor».

At trial, the whole team tried to stick to the version of Captain, but nothing they did not.



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