Navy jet crashes into apartments in Virginia

cnn.com ^ | April 6, 2012 | Mike Ahlers and Barbara Starr

[Free ThinkerNY]

(CNN) -- A Navy jet crashed Friday into some apartments near Virginia Beach, Virginia, sending flames and thick black smoke into the air, a military spokesman and a witness said.

Two apartment buildings were on fire, CNN affiliate WTKR reporting, citing witnesses.

The jet was from Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

The crew of the two-seater F/A-18 safely ejected, but their condition wasn't known, a Navy spokesman said.

The plane is from a training squadron, the Navy said.

George Pilkington, an eye witness to the crash, said he was the plane flying low, with its nose up and tail down, ejecting fuel -- which struck him as unusual. The engine was straining, he said.

[the invisib1e hand]

seems like it could have been a lot worse.

...overwhelming smell of jet fuel....

Ogawd, here comes the EPA.

[Leep]

Blame George H.W. Bush and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Dyslexics now get to be writers and editors.

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I think you mint to say, Lisdexics can bee righters and etidors sanks to gorge h.g. bus.

[the invisib1e hand]

looks to me like the damn thing went down in a ball of fire.