Capt. Jennifer Casey, the Snowbirds' public affairs officer, was killed in the May 17, 2020, crash of a squadron jet in Kamloops. This photo of her was taken in the Okanagan during a July 2019 visit by the team.
Photograph By Kelowna Capital News
1 posted on
05/18/2020 8:38:19 AM PDT by
BenLurkin
2 posted on
05/18/2020 8:38:54 AM PDT by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
It’s a dangerous profession.
It’s not for everyone.
It’s totally and utterly unforgiving.
“I saw a deceased female with catastrophic injuries,” Hings told KTW. “It looked like she hit a tree. It’s insane. It’s not supposed to happen.”
3 posted on
05/18/2020 8:41:25 AM PDT by
2banana
(My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
To: BenLurkin
Canadian Forces. Canada added to keywords.
5 posted on
05/18/2020 8:46:18 AM PDT by
TexasGator
(Z1z)
To: BenLurkin
Give me one good reason for the existence of ANY of these flying daredevil teams? (a rhetorical question, I already know the answer)
Don’t bother, there isn’t any.
They should expand the “missing man” formation to include ALL the aircraft.
I am completely series!
6 posted on
05/18/2020 8:49:50 AM PDT by
faucetman
(Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
To: BenLurkin
Aircraft is the CT-114 'Tutor', a 1960s era trainer, now almost exclusively used only by this air show demonstration team, Snowbirds, of the Canadian Forces.
R.I.P. to Captain Casey.
7 posted on
05/18/2020 8:49:55 AM PDT by
SES1066
(Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
To: BenLurkin
10 posted on
05/18/2020 8:54:31 AM PDT by
McGavin999
(Not one politician or journalist has died of Covid)
To: BenLurkin
Pretty girl. She should have been somewhere making good kids and raising a family. What the hell has gotten into people that they think it’s so cool for daughters to do man things and ignore the critical and fundamental thing society needs?
A waste.
20 posted on
05/18/2020 9:22:55 AM PDT by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
To: BenLurkin
The videos show one of the planes flying vertically before a pilot is ejected, followed by an airborne explosion and the subsequent crash. Some clips show a second occupant of the plane ejecting shortly before impact.I didn't see a mid-air explosion in the video. I saw what appeared to be two folks ejecting, one before the other.
35 posted on
05/18/2020 10:20:42 AM PDT by
PAR35
To: BenLurkin
37 posted on
05/18/2020 10:38:20 AM PDT by
stinkerpot65
(Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
To: BenLurkin
Does any other nation's military aerobatic team use aircraft as antiquated as the Tutor?
And it boggles the mind that ANY military would put their best pilots in aircraft that should have been retired decades ago WITHOUT ZERO-ZERO ejection seats.
39 posted on
05/18/2020 10:50:16 AM PDT by
60Gunner
(The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
To: BenLurkin
Kinda looks like her chute didn’t deploy.
72 posted on
05/19/2020 9:23:01 AM PDT by
ops33
(SMSgt, USAF, Retired)
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