[Moonman62]

Is the jet OK?

[Ann Archy]

MUSLIMS???

[ObamahatesPACoal]

How much is that going to cost? 5 million?

[Cvengr]

Man, they must’ve been flyin’....

I hope the F-18 landed safely.

[2ndDivisionVet]

They’d have never hit the A-7s I used to guard at a small ANG base. I’d have lit them up with my M-16.

[ameribbean expat]

F18 Hornet takes out Jeep, but I bet the Jeep would have kicked the new F35s butt.

[twister881]

April Fool’s article?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

At least it had a happy ending.

[PLMerite]

Another car vs fighter accident springs to mind:

Eglin AFB November 5, 1999.

[XHogPilot]

I don’t think that’s a photo of NAS Lemoore in the linked article. Therefore, I call BS, aka April Fools.

[circlecity]

I fought the jet and the...jet won.
I fought the jet and the..jet won.

[ronnie raygun]

The F/A-18 is expected to be charged with jeticular homicide

[SampleMan]

Someone on that base, perhaps many someones, need to have their butts kicked.

The gate guards didn’t activate the pop-up barriers, nor open fire. Why not?

[Earl43P]

I recall this incident, having seen the aircraft days afterward.

17 Jun 1992 [msh] 87293 USAF USAF ADS F-16C Block 32H

The aircraft, which was the number one Thunderbird, was badly damaged at Selfridge ANGB. A person drove his vehicle into the side of the Thunderbird F-16 at 70 miles per hour in what was later determined as a suicide. The crash tore out the port main undercarriage of the aircraft, and the aircraft was pushed 14 feet into another Thunderbird F-16C causing damage. The driver did not survive, and the time of the accident was about three in the morning. The aircraft was repaired at Ogden ALC and completed by April 1993. After its repair it was returned to Nellis AFB.

Irony: Full bird Colonel meets our aircraft on the Selfridge ramp, briefs us where to hangar our helo (next hangar over from this mishap Thunderbird)and describes that suicide. Says there was nothing that they could have done to prevent it. I mentioned loudly that every civilian airport in the US has gated fences controlling access to the ramps. He walked away shaking his head.

[taxcontrol]

Does that count towards the pilot’s ace count?

/sarc

[Mat_Helm]

Somebody needs to lose their job. This was a CHP chase at 11:30 at night which began south east of the base from Highway 198 and the CHP stopped pursuit when the Jeep Cherokee turned and drove west on the eastbound lane of HWY198 going against traffic toward the base. The suspects crashed through the main gate at Reeves Ave. which than goes for several miles north to the operations area and flight line and went through another barrier at the Grangeville turn and onto the tarmac and hanger areas. They drove for another 15 minutes before running into the horizontal stabilizer killing the female passenger and the driver died later in the hospital.

When I worked on the base 1984-1992 their were Marines with full load outs and M4's at each checkpoint. You make it through any gate and you would not reach the operations area before being lit up and shot to pieces. This is a joke for present security at the Nations largest Naval master jet base. Save money and cut staff and teach terrorists how to destroy military equipment. Just like the airbase in Afghanistan that had an RPG and bomb attack take out a whole flight line of Marine Harrier jets not to long ago. Where did all the adults go because there are none left in any part of our government, courts, military leaders, etc...