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Workers flee for safety as a landslide overturns trucks at an Indonesian nickel mining site.
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[Three workers were buried; two have been confirmed dead, while one remains missing.](https://zeenews.india.com/world/indonesia-nickel-mine-landslide-video-pt-mhm-west-java-casualties-3011414.html/amp) No idea if it was the people in this video.
H
[Looks like the death toll has jumped to ~34 with an additional 32 missing.](https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUDc6JnCLM2/)
J
Other comments suggest otherwise, but I think staying strapped into those big trucks and equipment would have led to a better chance of survival. I mean they recovered the dashcam so at least they could find our injured body.
D
I don’t know, the front glass alone was pressed into the cabin somewhere in the middle. At the end stuff came throught the side and destroyed the camera.
I
I’m hedging my bets and upvoting both of you.
B
I’ll bet on you to be safe.
L
> I think staying strapped into those big trucks and equipment would have led to a better chance of survival. In this particular incident, you MIGHT be right. Unfortunately there’s no way to predict, when it might be a good idea and when its plainly not….when dealing with cataclysmic events you’ve never experienced before. Hindsight is 20/20.
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> Other comments suggest otherwise, but I think staying strapped into those big trucks and equipment would have led to a better chance of survival. It looks like a big orange something would have gored him in the face if he’d stayed in the cab
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Might not have been recovered from the device. It’s more surveillance than dashcam, making it probable it streams to a cloud server.
N
You’re gonna tell me indonesia has the cell service to stream dashcam in the mountains? Come on man..
U
I work in IT and mining sites often have their own beams for precisely what the user above mentioned. So not like a random cell tower and more like the mining company setting up REALLY good wifi to keep an eye on things.
N
Ok fair, I have no experience so cannot dispute. Just seems wild to me that this is being streamed given the situation and location.
U
I think thats why the video ends before we see catastrophic damage to the device. The signal degraded to the point the feed was interrupted. Wild that we live in such a documented time.
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Unless you end up in a river with 50 tonnes of mud on top of you.
T
That only works with things that have a reinforced cockpit and roll-cage
C
And even then you’d have to be towards the top of the landslide. I’d rather be crushed to death instantly than starve in a tiny capsule under a mountain.
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Surely you’d suffocate well before you starve. Not that that’s better than instant crushing though.
M
Eh good chance it ended up being buried under rubble at the least where they could’ve run out of oxygen by the time they got dug out.. running for their lives was the right move
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At least the guy in the bulldozer would have survived, those roll cages can be dropped upside down. The truck driver would have sustained some bad injuries, but at least been findable by rescue crews, assuming where the video ends is the bottom of the slide and not just where the camera got destroyed by a full crush.
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I thought so at first, but the second half of the video shows you’d have been in a lot of danger. Recovering a GoPro is probably easier than recovering a corpse.
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When the guy jumped out and the others were running, how did they KNOW it was a landslide? That’s amazing, actually, to realize that and GTFOutta Dodge.
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If they are anything like the cams we use at work they are accessed remotely. Can view them all through a web browser and they use AI to along with physical sensors to detect things.
J
That’s definitely it. Damn, poor souls lost 🙁
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Sad. May they rest in peace. Hopefully the other person is okay and they find them; and they make a full, successful, and quick recovery.
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Did they even make it? Looks like they’re running downhill into the path of the landslide…
W
Yeah it looks like they ran downslope but wouldn’t have made it far, hard to say but odds on they got buried anyway. Poor bastards
G
According to the article shared on another comment…probably not ☹️ It’s something else watching someone run for their life and fail to escape….
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What gets me is the speed of these giant scale things. You watch tsunami grow on the horizon. When it comes in to view it is hardly any size at all, and it takes forever to get here. Then when it arrives, it slowly and elegantly picks the entire world to pieces, crushes what it has to crush, picks up what it has to pick up, and gently mashes everything in a slow waltz of houses, vehicles and industrial installations until the helicopter pic is just a sea of mud and loss.
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Very well written, your comment.
M
They might’ve run off to the left to safety just in time before the ground started falling, can’t see exactly where they went
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If that helps you sleep at night. I’m afraid these dudes didn’t make it.
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I’m saying it’s quite possible, I have no idea whether they made it
A
Death toll jumped to 34, with 32 missing, per HonkeyDonkey3000 above.
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So that’s what would have happened if he stayed in the truck
L
Was just thinking, “he’d probably be better off in the tru- ah, okay maybe not”.
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Depending on if he cleared the area fast enough. Also somehow the windshield wipers turned on as if the truck were doing it’s best.
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> if he cleared the area fast enough My question is did they? It looks like they all fled the same route the landslide took, and none of them looked particularly like distance runners. I mean, hell, that last guy barely cleared the dirt mound before it all started moving. Idk how they aren’t on the bottom of it all.
M
It looked like the slide took the path of least resistance down a gully. If they ran up the banks into the woods, they may have avoided it. Crazy decision to make though, choose wrong and you die.
M
Wouldn’t be shocked to learn they also took the path of least resistance.
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hopefully they climbed a tree, that land sure was 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯
I
The trees that are secured in the land?
N
Doesn’t erosion most easily affect soil that isn’t “reinforced” with root structures of trees? Maybe it doesn’t matter in a landslide, but it looked like the forest was mostly stationary in the video while the earth funneled into the valley.
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You don’t see the trees falling over? Roots are important to reduce erosion. Erosion is to landslides what a rising tide is to tsunamis, though.
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It does seem like they all made a bold choice in terms of runaway route.
C
Its a massive landslide and they only have seconds to think. Maybe there was a path downhill (where the vehicles use) and they thought it would be easier running down that instead of zig zagging through trees.
C
I’m not really being critical. It must have been terrifying. Just that my first thought was, “Wait. Are you all going down hill?” We of course don’t have a great sense of the geography they were dealing with.
G
we also have a very narrow view of what’s going on…could be the flow was much wider than what we can see.
B
As someone who is quite overweight and definitely NOT a distance runner, I can say, if I was running for my life, I would find strength reserves somewhere. Very deep down.
B
Sure you would buddy.
V
Adrenaline is a hell of a thing. I couldn’t run a sub 10 minute mile in gym class but when I had to run from the cops I was like Jesse Owens out there.
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