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F-18 Crashes into home near San Diego
KFI ^ | 12/8/08

Posted on 12/08/2008 12:22:04 PM PST by dragnet2

Breaking


TOPICS: Breaking News; US: California
KEYWORDS: aerospace; fa18; miramar; navair; planecrash; sandiego
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To: Hanna548

I’m hearing impaired and love the crawlers.....


101 posted on 12/08/2008 1:14:47 PM PST by SnarlinCubBear (Get Sarcasma - Comforting relief from the use of irony, mocking and conveying contempt)
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To: sofaman
They’re interviewing Steve Diamond, ex-navy pilot. He’s a friend of ours.

Wow! I saw a minute of the interview, and assumed from his general hunkiness(!) that he was military.

102 posted on 12/08/2008 1:15:03 PM PST by American Quilter (I'm in mourning for my country.)
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To: American Quilter; sofaman
...that's it, the only FReeperville reports now have to be confirmed by AQ & sofaman....their there
103 posted on 12/08/2008 1:15:13 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: sofaman

Hi, sofaman! Were any on the ground injured?


104 posted on 12/08/2008 1:15:22 PM PST by La Enchiladita (Don' need no steenkin' bipartisan..... Oops, have I failed to be "gracious" AGAIN?!!)
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To: SoCalPol
Hey sweetie.

We used to live ion Lipman when we first arrived. It's right there, 2 blocks from where we lived.

105 posted on 12/08/2008 1:15:22 PM PST by sofaman (Moses dragged us through the desert for 40 years to the one place in the ME with no oil - Golda Meir)
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To: sofaman

As we know, jets go down here from time to time and not news but guess with it taking out two houses, makes news.

During Nam, a pilot ejected and the jet went through one of the hangers at Miramar taking out other jets and many men. Remember seeing the many choppers taking them to the Naval Hospital


106 posted on 12/08/2008 1:15:52 PM PST by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin - Jindal 2012)
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To: American Quilter
Would that be Nit or Half?
No, it was their brother, Dim.

All were standing next to the two utes!

107 posted on 12/08/2008 1:16:28 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (President Bush has let me down! Palin in 2012!)
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To: American Quilter

ex-Navy. Intense guy. His daughter wants to compete in fencing in the next Olympics.


108 posted on 12/08/2008 1:16:53 PM PST by sofaman (Moses dragged us through the desert for 40 years to the one place in the ME with no oil - Golda Meir)
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To: Doogle; sofaman; SoCalPol
...that's it, the only FReeperville reports now have to be confirmed by AQ & sofaman....their there

No, it's sofaman and SoCalPol who are there. I'm in Colorado. I tried, but I couldn't see anything from here.

109 posted on 12/08/2008 1:17:25 PM PST by American Quilter (I'm in mourning for my country.)
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To: La Enchiladita

Not known, LE


110 posted on 12/08/2008 1:17:38 PM PST by sofaman (Moses dragged us through the desert for 40 years to the one place in the ME with no oil - Golda Meir)
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To: American Quilter

whoops...correction noted


111 posted on 12/08/2008 1:18:10 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Vroomfondel; SC Swamp Fox; Fred Hayek; NY Attitude; P3_Acoustic; Bean Counter; investigateworld; ...
SONOBUOY PING!

Click on pic for past Navair pings.

Post or FReepmail me if you wish to be enlisted in or discharged from the Navair Pinglist.
The only requirement for inclusion in the Navair Pinglist is an interest in Naval Aviation.
This is a medium to low volume pinglist.

112 posted on 12/08/2008 1:18:50 PM PST by magslinger (What is the fastest growing oppressed minority in America? Hoplophiles.)
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To: SoCalPol

I remember one went down in Sorrento Valley. The pilot was totally heroic. Stayed with the plane to make sure that it crashed in a parking lot before he ejected. Almost didn’t eject in time.


113 posted on 12/08/2008 1:18:57 PM PST by sofaman (Moses dragged us through the desert for 40 years to the one place in the ME with no oil - Golda Meir)
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To: theDentist
"I'm leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again..."

I was humming that tune today.... You must also be older than dirt to remember that diddy. *chuckle*

114 posted on 12/08/2008 1:19:50 PM PST by LaineyDee (Don't mess with Texas wimmen!)
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To: SnarlinCubBear

The crawler at the bottom is fine, but I am talking about the huge banners that are nearly 3” tall that they put up above the crwler. If they wanted to put up textual information they could do that without such a large banner. An additional crawler, the same size as the other one would not be so intrusive as that huge graphic is. The thing is more graphic than it is information.


115 posted on 12/08/2008 1:21:16 PM PST by Hanna548 (s)
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To: sofaman
His daughter wants to compete in fencing

Chain link or cedar?

116 posted on 12/08/2008 1:22:03 PM PST by llevrok (Feral Conservative)
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To: sofaman

Off topic: My friend’s daughter won the women’s single Gold in Fencing in the last two Olympics. (Both parents are former Olympians in Rowing.)


117 posted on 12/08/2008 1:22:34 PM PST by BagCamAddict ("Wolverines!!")
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To: SoCalPol
UC Middle School is close by and Marie Curie Junior School is across from the WaMu.

My word! That backyard looks like a pigpen.

118 posted on 12/08/2008 1:22:58 PM PST by sofaman (Moses dragged us through the desert for 40 years to the one place in the ME with no oil - Golda Meir)
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To: Joiseydude

I hate to say this.....but why did the pilot eject when it looked like it was headed for a residential area?

One would think that in such an extreme case, the pilot should have stayed with his aircraft and attempted to divert it to a less populated area.

Even at the sacrifice of his life. Ever see an old chestnut with Dana Andrews called “The Crowded Sky”?

A military flight somehow ends up on a collision course with a civilian airliner. The pilot, (If not mistaken Martin Milner)< after yelling “Well, I’m not gonna kill ‘em all!” deliberately dives to minimize the impact with the airliner, and in doing so jams the canopy so he can’t get out. seconds later the fighter explodes.

The DC-7, although damaged lands safely and all but a few aboard are saved.


119 posted on 12/08/2008 1:23:12 PM PST by Emperor Palpatine ("I love democracy. I love Free Republic")
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To: llevrok

120 posted on 12/08/2008 1:24:39 PM PST by sofaman (Moses dragged us through the desert for 40 years to the one place in the ME with no oil - Golda Meir)
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