Video Goes Viral On The Internet

It was one of those embarrassing moments that anyone who has ever been on live television dreads.

A local reporter for television station WFXT in Boston was doing what's called a "stand up" at Cranston Airport in Massachusetts on an accident involving a skydiving plane. In her report, Kathryn Burcham said that the pilot of the airplane, 20-year-old Jacob Haselden told her a "defective flux capacitor" might have caused the accident.

It's not known how Burcham made the leap to "flux capacitor", a fictitious device used by Doc Brown in the "Back to the Future" franchise to travel through time. Mashable reports that Haselden may have made a reference to a "fluxgate compass", but that has not been confirmed.

Haselden was piloting the aircraft for SkyDive Boston. He was the only person on board the Cessna 182 when the accident occurred Monday. He said the skydivers on board the airplane all exited the aircraft before he attempted the landing after experiencing engine problems. He said he made the approach too fast due to "various plane issues." Fox News reports that he overshot the runway and ran into a dirt road, which flipped the airplane over onto its back.

It was the second accident at Cranland Airport in just a few days. In the previous accident, the pilot was fatally injured, and the only passenger suffered serious injuries. That accident, which was previously reported on Aero-News, happened on a flight in which two brothers were scattering their late father's ashes from the airplane.

(Image from the Hanson, MA police department)

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