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To: JRios1968
He crashed a few seconds later...1994, Fairchild AFB, Washington.

Yep, LTC Bud Holland. He was unsafe and killed several people in that stunt. Several in the chain of command got hammered over that incident.

41 posted on 07/07/2006 5:44:38 AM PDT by Fury
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To: Fury
Yep, LTC Bud Holland. He was unsafe and killed several people in that stunt. Several in the chain of command got hammered over that incident.

As I recall, he snagged a power line and cartwheeled in. Sad to see so many good men die that fast over a foolish stunt.

59 posted on 07/07/2006 12:57:51 PM PDT by Ditto
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To: Fury

IIRC he took the squadron commander and director of ops with him, because they were the only ones who felt confident enough of being able to override him. Obviously they weren't.


60 posted on 07/07/2006 1:08:29 PM PDT by JRios1968 (There's 3 kinds of people in this world...those who know math and those who don't.)
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To: Fury; JRios1968

http://www.dumpalink.com/media/1129710400/B52_Crash

You can see the film of that Fairchild AFB/ Bud Holland crash here-- I know next to nothing about planes (except that I love them) and even I can see what a dumb move something like that was. Wow how sad.


79 posted on 07/09/2006 2:34:28 PM PDT by lawgirl (She comes on like thunder and she's more right than rain)
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