Posted on 06/02/2016 1:06:14 PM PDT by DesertRhino
Local news reporting a Thunderbird crashed and the pilot safely ejected.
“If a plane crashes on an international border where do you bury the survivors?”
You always want plane crashes to be outside the US. They’re all metric, see. So where here 100 people might die, in Canada it would only be 73 people.
Blue Angel pilot. What happened with him?
What worries me is since these guys are the cream of the crop, what does the rest of the fleet look like. Since it’s only one acft, I’m assuming a mechanical problem.
[The second photo features Pikes Peak.]
Didn’t that blow up with Pierce Brosnan a couple decades ago?
Reminds me of a horribly racist but funny (at the time) joke I heard back in the Navy.
A construction guy on the way to a job in a bulldozer came across a wrecked vehicle in a deep ditch. Seeing no way to pull it out, he scraped up gravel and soil and buried it. Later on the sheriff came by asking the worker about a missing bus. "Yeah", he said "There was a busload of (insert race, creed or ethnicity of your choice here) in the ditch up the road. I buried 'em up there."
"None of 'em alive?", asked the sheriff.
"Well, a couple of 'em said they was", he replied "but you know how those (insert racial, religious or ethnic slur here) lie!"
No PC back then!
If the pilot ejected, how did the aircraft land nearly completely intact?
“They’re all metric, see. So where here 100 people might die, in Canada it would only be 73 people.”
Ahaa ! I like the way that you think.
The next time I get weighed I’ll do it on Canada.
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Blue Angel also crashed today. Sorry to say, that pilot didn’t make it. http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2016/06/02/navy-blue-angel-jet-crashes-smyrna/85308972/
They converted to the newer block 52s.
Must’ve been flying slow and flat.
Is the nose of that thing slightly different than the past? That pic in 31(?) sure threw me looking at the front.
Blue Angle Pilot #6 reportedly road it in to avert hitting apartments.
RIP Brother
‘Zactly. No more Texaco in the tank...oops!
Yep, you're right, when in doubt - EJECT! You get a better view of the crash that way.
Thanks - I was looking at the one pic where it’s still flying but real low. Hadn’t seen the pic you showed.
Yes.
RIP.
I know someone who rode a flight in once, too.
The Cornfield Bomber did the same 45 years ago. Then returned to mission ready status.
I heard a news report about this from the aviation reporter at one of our local stations. According to sources, they’re saying that the engine “just quit”. The fact that the plane did NOT burst into flame on impact makes me wonder if the thing had enough fuel.
This makes me think SOMEONE is gonna lose their ass on this one.
Active Duty ping.
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