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Air Force jet collides with Cessna over South Carolina
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| July 7 at 2:24 PM
| Mark Berman
Posted on 07/07/2015 12:20:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
07/07/2015 12:20:00 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Yikes. Not much left of the Cessna, I’d guess.
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posted on
07/07/2015 12:21:03 PM PDT
by
Fido969
To: BenLurkin
F-16 pilot “Hey, did you feel a bump?”
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posted on
07/07/2015 12:23:24 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( "Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
To: BenLurkin
I’d venture to guess that 99% of the time the Cessna is going to lose that battle.
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posted on
07/07/2015 12:25:12 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
To: Fido969
Both crashed. Falcon driver safely parachuted. He hit the Cessna broadside. Not good.
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posted on
07/07/2015 12:27:07 PM PDT
by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
To: BenLurkin
Another Iraqi Pilot training mission?
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posted on
07/07/2015 12:28:40 PM PDT
by
McGruff
(Eat a snickers...)
To: BenLurkin
Let’s have the name and rank of the ejected pilot.
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posted on
07/07/2015 12:32:15 PM PDT
by
Paulie
(America without Christianity is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
To: BenLurkin
This is like a Mustang 5.0 hitting a scooter.
Was the F-16 pilot NOT PAYING ATTENTION?
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posted on
07/07/2015 12:40:03 PM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: BenLurkin
Authorities from the base said it was gathering a team of investigators to determine what happened.Just off hand, I'd say that the pilots of both crafts attempted to occupy the same space, which didn't work out so well for either. Investigation complete!
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posted on
07/07/2015 12:40:31 PM PDT
by
dware
(Yeah, so? What are we going to do about it?)
To: BenLurkin
I’d hate to see the Cessna pilot’s insurance bill once they settle up on the lost F-16.
To: BenLurkin
Ironically, a Cessna is lovingly called a ‘bug smasher’.
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posted on
07/07/2015 12:47:07 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
(If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
To: 2banana
LOS issue, I bet.
“Was the F-16 pilot NOT PAYING ATTENTION?”
Same could be said of the Cessna pilot.
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posted on
07/07/2015 12:48:16 PM PDT
by
Hulka
To: dware
And the first indication of the impact was when the pitot tube started to crinkle.
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posted on
07/07/2015 12:49:01 PM PDT
by
Hulka
To: BenLurkin
2nd story I have seen today about this incident and still nothing on the Cessna 152 occupant(s). I guess they are still looking for them.
To: Parley Baer
They must still be in the fuselage, I would think.
Or maybe not.
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posted on
07/07/2015 12:52:51 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Buckeye McFrog
sailplane pilot lost 3 feet of wingtip, and an aileron hinge into a Marine Harrier while out ridge soaring in SoCal. Both aircraft barely made it home.
Marine base sent a $100,000.00 bill to Chip later.
Bill went into the trash can immediately (FedGov is self-insured).
See and be seen doesn’t always work when there is disparate speed involved.
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posted on
07/07/2015 12:53:09 PM PDT
by
telstar12.5
(...always bring gunships to a gun fight...)
To: Paulie
To: telstar12.5
Doesn’t the F16 have collision warning alarms??? Sheesh. You’re puting around in your Cessna showing your wife or kids how you can fly and you get run over by an F16?? One pilot is likely a relative amateur. The other is a highly trained professional flying a billion dollar US Government attack fighter. I’d probably make the F16 pilot a mechanic for the rest of his career.
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posted on
07/07/2015 1:00:20 PM PDT
by
kjam22
(my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
To: Sequoyah101
There is every reason why.
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posted on
07/07/2015 1:12:41 PM PDT
by
Paulie
(America without Christianity is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
To: Hulka
"Same could be said of the Cessna pilot."Really? I thought you were a pilot, Hulka..
Exactly what was the F-16 doing at Cessna 150 altitudes and how exactly does a Cessna 150 have the visibility and speed to evade a jet fighter? Have any hours at all in a Cessna?
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posted on
07/07/2015 1:18:36 PM PDT
by
Chainmail
(A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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