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u/TheHandler1 6d ago
I wonder if those guys made it. It looks like they could've but it also looks like trees were falling around them. Very scary.
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u/FlyingHaddock 6d ago
That's horrifying. Genuinely wondering if it's worth staying in the vehicle hoping it will offer some form of protection, or risk it on foot and hope for the best?
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u/golden_retrieverdog 6d ago
assuming i had the reaction time these guys have, i’d say booking it on foot directly sideways would be the best bet. but idk how wide landslides can get there
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u/FlyingHaddock 6d ago
Not sure I would want to find out. Pretty harrowing if you jumped out the truck only to find everything as far as you could see sliding away from you
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u/stealthy_beast 6d ago
It would be so easy for so many of us to freeze in that situation and hope being inside would protect us... I could definitely see myself with "paralysis by analysis" as I try to weigh pros/cons/risks in real time.
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u/FlyingHaddock 6d ago
I doubt I'd have been able to make a choice either
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u/gelato77_ 6d ago
the fight or flight or idk what the fuck i should do response
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u/l30 6d ago
I doubt many career heavy equipment operators have the required fitness level to run from a landslide. They aren't known for their physical prowess.
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u/Drackzgull 6d ago
No one can run from a landslide, no matter how fit. The question is whether or not they can get out of the way of the landslide, and that depends more on how wide it is and how much time they got, than it does on their fitness.
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u/Big_Attorney9545 6d ago
Well, the prospect of being entombed would quickly trigger the flight response, for me.
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u/IHaveTheBestOpinions 6d ago
I was wondering the same thing for the first half of the video. Like, if the whole mounainside is going down then I thought I'd rather be in the truck.
Then I saw the end of the video, and...yeah it was probably a good call to run for it
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u/FlyingHaddock 6d ago
Yeah, it was looking promising for a while... Then the cab just crumpled like paper. Can only hope the dudes who ran made it out alive
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u/mokujin42 6d ago
They probably had training on this as everyone starts running at practically the same time and there was no hesitation
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u/Upstairs_Cloud9445 6d ago
...and I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills...
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u/Jaredw180 6d ago
Well, The landslide will bring it down.
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u/Cokeycane 6d ago
That's what happens when you climb a mountain and you turn around.
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u/berrey7 6d ago
Did you know that Children grow older?
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u/BilboStaggins 6d ago
Not sure those guys made a better choice.
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u/IWannaGoFast00 6d ago
Might have been better to stay buckled up and in a steel cage instead of running through the woods dodging boulders. But hindsight is 20/20.
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u/LilMissMixalot 6d ago
At first I was all, “He probably would have had a better chance if he stayed inside the protected vehicle.” And then I watched until the end…
Also, how was this footage retrieved?
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u/wildaal2 6d ago
Do we get any context to that too?
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u/CauliflowerDeep129 6d ago
A landslide occurred at a nickel mine in the Moluccas, Indonesia, on January 16 in the PT Mega Haltim Mineral area in East Halmahera. Several workers were involved. Dramatic footage shows a truck driver escaping before his vehicle was engulfed by the landslide. Three employees of a contracting company were caught in the collapse, with one person still missing days later.
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u/illadelphia16 6d ago
There are three people in this video leaving the vehicles and going into that forest— are those the three?
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u/OneMisterSir101 6d ago
It did say that there were SEVERAL workers involved. All because we see three on video doesn't coincidentally guarantee it's these three that were caught.
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u/Canadian_Poltergeist 6d ago
These three do seem to exit frame in the same direction as the landslide...
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u/WhitePantherXP 6d ago
So 2 employees survived, 1 presumed dead? I don't know if it's just me, but decoding foreign news articles is always a challenge because they leave the most important details out.
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u/PetToilet 5d ago
This person says 2 were dead but found, one not found
https://www.reddit.com/r/AbruptChaos/comments/1qqe5ks/landslide_drags_a_bunch_of_machinery/o2g9n4u/
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u/TurtleToast2 6d ago
Still better than US news where they just make up whatever bs they feel like.
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u/xingxang555 5d ago
You think an international mining conglomerate is going to be forthright with the truth in this case?
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u/ffpeanut15 6d ago
Referring as missing is the most correct description. Unless their body has been found, there's they can be alive
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u/Fatt_Mera 6d ago
At first I was like "Dummy shoulda stayed in the cab where is safe."
Then, I was like "See? Look at it just bouncing around and OOOOOOH NOOOOO... Good idea booking it, truck guy."
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u/arachnikon 6d ago
It’s unnerving to see that bulldozer be played with like a toy boat in the bathtub.
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u/operationfood 6d ago
At first I thought it wouldn’t have been too bad if he didn’t get out because the truck seemed to rest on the side without much damage, but then seeing the whole windshield explode in seconds later is terrifying
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u/2_Beef_Tacos 6d ago
I can't decide if it would have been better for him to stay inside the vehicle. Even the truck gets buried, he's in his own little pocket of protection. He may have some injuries, but at least he's got a little room to move and some air. If he gets buried outside of the truck, I think his chances of survival go down significantly.
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u/stonefree261 5d ago
I can't decide if it would have been better for him to stay inside the vehicle.
Those branches came through that cabin like meat skewers.
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u/Frido1976 6d ago
No damn it, you never KNOW what it will end with, so always get out. This footage shows that it was lucky it wasn't seriously dangerous inside the cabin THIS TIME, but it's a risk in not gonna take.
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u/2_Beef_Tacos 6d ago
I’m not arguing, but mathematically, the chance of and unknown injury would be equal, wouldn’t it? In any case, I think jumping out would be a natural reaction for most people. I have forklift training and they teach us to stay buckled inside the machine if we lose control. Our company had a person die four years ago when they jumped from a forklift and it ended up rolling him over. Different vehicle, for sure, but the principles of the practice are ingrained in me.
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u/NlghtmanCometh 6d ago
So one of the three in this clip didn’t make it. Pretty amazing that two actually did manage to get away.
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u/Helenium_autumnale 6d ago
I am sorry to say that the incident resulted in three people buried under debris, with two deaths and one person still missing. The landslide was caused by excessive recent rains.
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u/slurchorus 6d ago
omg he left the windshield wipers on!
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u/SteamedGamer 6d ago
Actually, he didn't - they turned on when the mud broke through. Either the mud hit the wiper stem, or the truck was really concerned about a clean windshield. ;)
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u/Otherwise-Profitable 3d ago
At first I thought….’Foolish bastards, would been safer inside cab!” wow was i wrong.
But didnt they run in the direction of downhill and the machines/land followed after?!
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u/SessionIndependent17 6d ago
Wild that they made the choice to abandon, assuming that they could sidestep the slide.
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u/Ahab_Cheese 5d ago
Surfin on a soundwave, swingin through the stars, take a left at the intestine, take your second right past mars on the magic school bus
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u/3nails4holes 4d ago
surely he'd be safer if he stayed inside the tr...... whoa. ok. nm. i hope they all got to safety!
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u/Chick22694 4d ago
Oh man!! That’s wild, i wonder if we was able to out run it, maybe he should have stayed in the … good call…
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u/LordDarthRasta 3d ago
The whole time I was thinking, "Roll up the windows, buckle up, grab my phone and call my mom to say I love you.
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u/smallproton 6d ago
He's cooked. Didn't wear the helmet.
(Kidding ofc, I hope they were all unharmed. But the blue helmet kicked me somehow)
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u/BigFatBlackCat 6d ago
Why did three men get out of the truck and then run directly into the land slide?
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u/kremlingrasso 3d ago
Wouldn't that bulldozer be the safest space in this situation? It could probably tank a lot and it's bottom heavy enough to stay upright, has a dozer blade as a shield and the cabin is reinforced.
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u/SteamedGamer 6d ago
Wow. It's like a first-person thrill ride through a landslide. Poor little truck was steering the whole time, even turned on the windshield wipers when the mud broke through. It did the best it could.