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Virginia Plane Crash: 'Air Force General' Dies
Sky News ^ | April 20, 2013

Posted on 04/20/2013 10:19:11 AM PDT by Fennie

A pilot who died when his light aircraft crashed just a few metres away from a house was reportedly a US Air Force general.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: afgeneral; airforce; aviation; military; nuclear; obama; planecrash; usaf
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1 posted on 04/20/2013 10:19:11 AM PDT by Fennie
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To: Fennie

Hmmm.


2 posted on 04/20/2013 10:21:55 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Fennie

I’m guessing he wasn’t gay....


3 posted on 04/20/2013 10:22:51 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Jonty30

With Stalin, it was a one-way ticket to the Lubyanka....guess we’re a little more creative.


4 posted on 04/20/2013 10:22:57 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Fennie
Air Force general killed in JCC crash

AMES CITY COUNTY, Va. (WAVY) - A single-engine Cessna plane crashed in the Williamsburg Landing subdivision in James City County, killing two people Friday afternoon.

Assistant Fire Chief Bob Ryalls said the plane went down on Boatright Court near the Williamsburg/Jamestown Airport shortly before 5 p.m. There was no fire when it crashed.

State Police have confirmed the pilot, 54-year-old Joseph D. Brown, IV and a female passenger were killed, as was a family pet.

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5 posted on 04/20/2013 10:24:05 AM PDT by deport
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To: Fennie
Bio

Maj. Gen. Joseph D. Brown IV


6 posted on 04/20/2013 10:24:36 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: Fennie

Well, one thing seems for sure. He was out of fuel.


7 posted on 04/20/2013 10:25:39 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: Fennie
Went straight in.

Stall/spin during approach to landing it appears.

8 posted on 04/20/2013 10:27:17 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Fennie

He was a classmate (Brother Rat) of mine a VMI.


9 posted on 04/20/2013 10:29:02 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Democrats: Robbing Peter to buy Paul's vote.)
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To: Fennie

Condolences to Genl. Brown’s family.

(BTW, Are we once again getting news from the Brits?)


10 posted on 04/20/2013 10:30:07 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: Nachum

FReepmail


11 posted on 04/20/2013 10:30:52 AM PDT by Old Sarge (My "KMA List" is growing daily...)
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To: EDINVA
(BTW, Are we once again getting news from the Brits?)

God save the Queen!

12 posted on 04/20/2013 10:33:45 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Fennie
Why did they put "Air Force General" in quotes?

Was he an Air Force General or did he just pretend to be one?

13 posted on 04/20/2013 10:35:02 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: darkwing104

former BUFF and B1 Commander...RIP General and Mrs. Brown....from a former ‘blue suiter”


14 posted on 04/20/2013 10:35:43 AM PDT by sternup
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To: deport

http://www.af.mil/information/bios/bio.asp?bioID=9370


15 posted on 04/20/2013 10:36:51 AM PDT by M1911A1
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To: Fennie

Chicagocide


16 posted on 04/20/2013 10:37:20 AM PDT by South Dakota (shut up and build a bakken pipe line)
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To: UCANSEE2

My guess also.

Probably out of fuel and the old story of trying to stretch his glide.

But you would expect anyone with his hours and intensive training to have kept a cool head.

On the other hand, I suspect that the military does not spend any time teaching fighter jocks the basics of dead stick landing.

More like blow and go.


17 posted on 04/20/2013 10:39:40 AM PDT by old curmudgeon
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To: dead

Probably his title is in quotes because when the story was written there’d been no confirmation of his ID. The military does try to notify family before publicizing the death, although it seems Mrs. Brown was the other passenger. There may also be older children the USAF would have preferred to notify.


18 posted on 04/20/2013 10:41:59 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: deport

I’m betting the owners of that house are feeling pretty fortunate right now.


19 posted on 04/20/2013 10:45:05 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: Cowboy Bob

What class? I was there for one year in ‘70-71 - I can’t recall all my classmates by name, but his is not familiar.


20 posted on 04/20/2013 10:47:48 AM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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