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To: Pukin Dog
Wasn't your TFR found to occasionally run you into a mountain side?

Only when the pilot paddles off and ignores the cue. I worked at the factory for the TFR, and did quite a bit of work on the algorithms for the upgrade to the -111 TFR, and for the LANTIRN TFR. The original, analog, -111 TFRs were before my time, but not before the time of several of the folks I worked with. There was never a documented instance of the TFR flying the aircraft, into a mountain, or any other sort of terra firma. Even when there wasn't enough left of the crew to ID with anything other than their DNA and/or dog tags, the accident investigators were able to tell if the TF was flying the aircraft, it never was and if the pilot had paddled off, they always had.

75 posted on 03/23/2006 3:52:25 PM PST by El Gato
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To: El Gato
There was never a documented instance of the TFR flying the aircraft, into a mountain, or any other sort of terra firma.

Huh?

Dude, there were 6 known incidences of the F-111 TFR killing pilots between 1971 and 1973. Now, maybe I had access to stuff that you didn't, but this is a well known fact.

78 posted on 03/23/2006 3:57:16 PM PST by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache, so don't be hatin'. LOL!)
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