Wing sabotaged?
U.S. Navy jet crashes in Virginia; 2 pilots believed to have ejected
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/u-navy-jet-crashes-virginia-2-pilots-believed-174703258.html
Latest developments (3:00 pm ET)
· No reported fatalities, but least five people taken to hospital with injuries
· Search for victims is underway
· Pilots reportedly safe
Officials have confirmed that a U.S. Navy F/A-18 Hornet jet has crashed in Virginia after taking off from U.S. Naval Air Station Oceana, with the two pilots believed to have ejected before impact.
Not a good, nor an honored way, to ditch your fighter plane!
If the reports of no fatalities and few injuries holds true, then I think we can all let out a deep breath on this one. I was visiting my aunt in Indiana back in 1987 when an A-7 crashed into a Indianapolis hotel. Not everyone was so lucky that day.
Prayers...................
Prayers lifted.
We had that happen in Alameda a long time ago. A Navy jet heading into NAS Alameda slammed into a large apartment bldg, and the carnage was huge.
And then there was the privately owned antique Air Force F-85 owned by William Penn Patrick, crashed into Farrel’s ice cream parlor in Sacramento when about 50 kids were in there for a birthday party. Can’t get much uglier than that.
I think it was Christmas time, 1984, when a small private plane attempting to find its way through the fog to Buchanan Field in Concord crashed into Sun Valley Mall when it was full of thousands of shoppers. That was another ultra ugly one. My wife and I were with four of our kids at a bowling alley, and our two eldest were at the mall that night, but far from the crash site. The daughter and grandson of the woman that I had just bought our house from were not so fortunate; they were both right under the spot where the plane hit, and were both severely burned.
>> “Any residents who come across any aircraft parts are instructed to not touch the parts, as it is a federal offense to touch military aircraft or its parts...” <<
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Incredible!
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A Prayer of Thanks. Praise the Lord, no serious injuries from what the latest report I heard said.
Prayers up...
Oh, FFS. Libs are using this accident to “prove” that the 9/11 airliner crashing into the Pentagon never happened. That the damage to the building was an inside job by Bush.
From my local news source....
“JET CRASH UPDATE: Officials Say Some Apartment Residents Still Missing”
Not good....
Too horrific to contemplate!
If you search Google Maps for 36.851255,-75.992825 and use the satellite view, you can see the middle of the courtyard where the plane ended up. Amazing.