Another training maneuver involving an underqualified military pilot?
A cool,competent pilot prevented a tragedy. Celebrate the meritocracy.
“ There’s no radar here. ”
Wow.
Surprised an airliner flys into a no radar airport
The air force fairies were probably taking their afternoon penis break...
I was stationed at MAFB from 1974 to 1975. I repaired B52 avionics equipment.
At the time the civilian airport was like, 13 miles away.
They didn’t even have a tower it was all visual, radio, and telephone.
Hard to see how civilians and a B52 would ever be in the same airspace given the strict restrictions that exist near MAFB airspace.
It may have changed but MAFB had Nuclear armed aircraft on “ground alert” at all times and could be in the air at anytime.
Thank GOD for skilled pilots!!!!!
That man saved MANY lives, his own not the least.
Herewith an ambiguous hadline.
About 30 years ago, I was flying my Piper Comanche 250 to Casper. I was over western Nebraska at probably 2,000 feet AGL and traveling at 175 mph. I saw what appeared to be a forest fire way off to the north. But as I looked, the fire became two fires and then became two F-4 Phantoms. They were crossing ahead and below me. There was no risk of collision but I kept watching them AND THEN, I saw this big shadow zooming across the ground.
It was a B-52 doing low-level training. It was on the deck. But for the smokey Phantoms escorting it, I would never have seen it. It wasn’t smoking - just traveling low and fast.
One would think that that the military would be more careful near commercial airports so soon after after flight AA5342 was hit by a Blackhawk helicopter in D.C..