Prayers for One of America’s Finest, his Family and Friends. Fly Fast, Sir, Fly Free! Thank You for your sacrifice to Fly Fast for Freedom!
Even assuming he ejected the process of ejection is a very dangerous action.....our prayers are with his family!!
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds...and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of...wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew.
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
John Gillespie Magee Jr.
The reason I asked his name the other day? I don’t recall them with holding a name so long before. Seemed fishy. Any doubt a gummint that would put a shrink at Ft Hood where he could shoot 50 folks wouldn’t put some one named Muhamed in a cockpit of a fighter?
I was hoping for better news. Vaya con dios buddy.
The Pilot was not able to eject. F-15 impacted at high rate of speed and steep angle. Evidence at crash site confirmed no ejection. Prayers to family and Squadron mates.
Based upon early information, it is unremarkable that ejection at 500K and 35,000 feet would be fatal. Early reports say there was one brief call of trouble. Sounds like control or structural failure. In general, ejection above an airspeed greater than 250K is fatal. Add the fall from 35,000 feet, which requires positive pressure O2 and the outlook is dim.
May his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace. And may Perpetual Light shine upon them.
Prayers up for those who loved him, too.
“Officials have confirmed Thursday that the pilot in Wednesday’s crash F-15C Eagle was fatally injured.”
“No word on whether officials have found the pilot’s body.”
Beyond this confusing write-up, yes, he perished. Until recently, he was the former squadron commander of a friends son.
Tragic.