Seems like more involved than some cars in the parking lot.
Will await more details.
Posted on 08/13/2023 3:10:26 PM PDT by Drew68
Praying!
“Did the pilots not care where the plane might crash?” Apparently they did not.”
If they bailed due to a non-coverable stall/loss of flight controls, riding it to the ground would have made no difference.
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“A sign of the decline of American manhood.”
If they have no controls, the aircraft will go where it will whether they are onboard or not. If there is some control, pilots can try to avoid populated areas.
My house would be underneath their turnaround zone. There’s nothing more awesome than the scream of an F-16 in full throttle racing back to base some 3000 feet above your home.
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Yeah there is.
B1 - Wings back - Burners lit - directly overhead, about 45-50 feet up.
Shakes the ground when it goes over.
You know you have been “airplaned”.
More than once....
Looks pretty clearly not to be a ‘non-coverable stall’ or a non-recoverable stall, for that matter. May have been loss of flight controls.
What are you talking about? Plane crashes can happen very quickly. It isn’t always like Hollywood where the pilots scream, “Mayday! Mayday!” For ten minutes before the plane crashes.
Somtimes the aircraft very quickly becomes a brick.
The one where the marine pilots were doing low flyby and clipped the lift cables?
My question: Who did the maintenance on the plane and were they using Chinese-manufactured parts?
Thank God. 🙏
Jumping to a conclusion is easy if one was not piloting the jet.
We were part of a crowd of 90,000 who witnessed that sacrifice by Thunderbird pilot Capt. Nick Hauck at Hill AFB in 1981.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17296757/david-lee-hauck
Seems like more involved than some cars in the parking lot.
Will await more details.
Thanks for making an intelligent, reasoned, well thought out, Cogent Comment.
I’m pretty sure you got the order of events backward.
Your comment was astute and likely correct.
“Remember that crash in Italy when lots of people were killed? That was back in the 80’s.”
Wasn’t in Italy. That crash was at Ramstein AFB, Germany involving the Italian Frecce Tricolori on 28 August, 1988. 70 were killed, 500 injured (346 seriously).
My doctor grew up on Ramstein (her parents were both in the Air Force), she was there at the airshow that day, and that’s why she decided to become a doctor.
I'm from Longview, tx
In 1984 I think, I was USAF at Norton AFB in San Bernadino. It was the first year the Thunderbirds had the F-16s. For the annual Norton air show, the first day the team did area familiarity flights, and put on a mini-airshow for active duty people who had to work the next day.
We were told to watch the ridge of the San Bernardino Mountains east of town. The Thunderbirds flew over the ridge and immediately dove to low level flight, and passed out of sight behind the city buildings.
After what seemed like five minutes later the aircraft roared into a pass-over of the AFB from the west, surprising everyone. They put on a great show, surpassed only by the brief flight of an SR-71.
It could have been you!!
~ Drew and Mike
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