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To: steve86

The C-17 is an EXTREMELY capable aircraft. Combine a pilot’s natural bravado with someone who gets a little carried away and you get accidents like this and Fairchild AFB. It’s very easy to overestimate your and your aircraft’s capabilities.


3 posted on 12/11/2010 8:34:01 AM PST by AntiKev ("Within the strangest people, truth can find the strangest home." - Great Big Sea - Company of Fools)
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To: AntiKev
The C-17 is an EXTREMELY capable aircraft.. . . . ..

.. . . . .but it always obeys the rules:

We must NEVER forget the ABC's, boys and girls!!

9 posted on 12/11/2010 8:48:48 AM PST by skeptoid (The Road to Serfdom is being paved by RINOS)
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