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sc_rebel1957

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Anyone see the news story where the couple were taking a small plane from S.C. to NY, when over the Atlantic the single engine prop plane shut down and the pilot told the married couple there were going to ditch in the water.
They hit at around 60 mph and started sinking rapidly when the husband remembered the Benchmade Axis lock he always carries, he used it to hack open the plexiglass window and escaped with life jackets to be rescued soon after.
The funny part was his wife always gave him hell about carrying the knife everywhere with him.
She no longer minds the knife ;) , which is really nicked up from the abuse but still functions great the guy says.
Benchmade should follow up on this story as it's very good P.R. for them and finally some great press about knive in general.
I think I'll look it up on my local news website and forward the story to Benchmade, they might wanna use it and send the guy a new Axis lock.
I strongly doubt he would send this 1 in for repair :D , kinda OT I know but when we see so much bad media about knives today I couldn't resist. Ron
 
where does it mention that it is a BM axis lock? And the article said he cut a hole with the knife and escaped? I don't think thats possible, I mean even with a saw it would take a while to cut a hole in plexiglass. I assume he used the butt of the knife to crack the window?
 
I didn't see in the online story anything about the kind of knife it was, or the wife's objection to the husband carrying the knife. Perhaps it was in a different version of the story you saw. (Was it broadcast?)

Anyway, what I always find annoying is wives (or just people) who pull that crap, objecting to a person carrying a TOOL. They behave as though the simple act of HAVING a knife available to you is somehow an evil thing. It takes a lifesaving event to finally teach a person that "Gee, I guess it *was* better to be prepared than to be unprepared."

I'd bet that if you stripped the next 100 people you see (excluding people you know intimately like family members), fewer than five of them would have a knife on their person, ready to be used for any task from the mundane to the critical. That's sickening. It's like a renunciation of the fact that humanity has acquired the skills to make tools he can use to make his life easier -- or save it.

I have a knife on my person at all times -- 24 hours a day -- and also have fire on me as well (a Zippo) during all the hours I am dressed. I consider it my duty to myself, and my legacy as a descendant of the first cavemen who made fire and fashioned knives. If a person makes a comment to me that indicates their contempt for me having either flame or blade, I can just dismiss that person out-of-hand as being an ignoramus. One who questions preparedness is favoring helplessness.

---Jeffrey
 
Originally posted by peacefuljeffrey






I have a knife on my person at all times -- 24 hours a day -- and also have fire on me as well (a Zippo) during all the hours I am dressed. I consider it my duty to myself, and my legacy as a descendant of the first cavemen who made fire and fashioned knives.

---Jeffrey
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YEEEEEESSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You said it!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
The story ran on my local news last night and in the interview it shows the knife, trust me it was a B/M Axis lock (looked like a combo edge pinacle design).
I called my local news director this morning and they gave me his name and he was from Greenville S.C. my home town BTW.
His last name was Purcell, and from what he said in the interview he didn't "saw" through the plexiglas, he chopped it until it cracked the head butted it until the opening was large enough to to get his hands into and tear the rest of the way out.
And because it was not an airliner just a small prop plane that he chartered the knife wouldn't be considered contraban.
I don't know about the rest of you but ANY good press about knives is good for the whole knife community. Ron
 
Originally posted by Esav Benyamin
I hope he doesn't get arrested for smuggling a knife through the airport.
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Esav,

If it was a private plane, or a private charter, passengers generally do not have to go through airport security (at least they don't around here).
 
Originally posted by sc_rebel1957
The story ran on my local news last night and in the interview it shows the knife, trust me it was a B/M Axis lock (looked like a combo edge pinacle design).
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The Pinnacle doesn't have the Axis lock; it's a frame locking knife much like the Sebenza and Buck/Mayo TnT.
 
The Pinnacle doesn't have the Axis lock; it's a frame locking knife much like the Sebenza and Buck/Mayo TnT

Wasn't sure about the model and your'e right the Pinacle is a frame lock.

Didn't get a good look at the scale area or it would have been easier to make out the model, the recurve edge was what made me think of the Pinacle, but it did show the Axis lock and the B/M logo.

Got a very nice call from Travis at B/M this evening and I'm going to put him in touch with Mr Purcell through my local news director tomorrow. Ron
 
Originally posted by sc_rebel1957
Didn't get a good look at the scale area or it would have been easier to make out the model, the recurve edge was what made me think of the Pinacle, but it did show the Axis lock and the B/M logo.
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It might be a 710; I think that's the only other Benchmade that has a recurved blade.
 
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