JasonI
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one thing I would like to know is how much control they had of the plane before they ejected because if they ejected whilst it was still possible to try and get it out of harms way then they failed to do their job.
I heard they did everything possible til the last second but had no control...
I am torn on something here. If you are a pilot and your plane is heading toward anything residential is it ok to bailout and say screw it to save your own ass? Also I am curious if there is anything he could have done even if he hadn't bailed to avoid hitting an apartment building? I've never flown so I am not sure. But I tend to beleive that if the pilot could have missed an apartment building, even at the expense of his own life, he should have done it.
one thing I would like to know is how much control they had of the plane before they ejected because if they ejected whilst it was still possible to try and get it out of harms way then they failed to do their job.
If they had that much control, they wouldn't have bailed out.
Gotta love armchair quarterbacks.
If they had that much control, they wouldn't have bailed out.
Gotta love armchair quarterbacks.
Dear lord, I never dared to believe that possible after I saw the carnage. I don't normally believe in miracles, but if I did this would most certainly be an example of one.
IRGINIA BEACH
How?
That’s the question everyone is asking.
How does a 30,000-pound fighter jet fall from the sky, slam into a crowded neighborhood, burst into a fireball, incinerate dozens of apartments – and kill no one?
On Saturday, one day after a Navy F/A-18D crashed into the Mayfair Mews apartments on Birdneck Road, everyone on the ground was declared safe and accounted for, and both pilots had been released from the hospital.
As teams of white-suited hazmat workers combed through charred rubble, and the stench of jet fuel still hung in the air, one word was on the lips of grateful neighbors, wide-eyed onlookers, tired firemen, seen-it-all rescuers, cynical police officers, and hardened military types: Miracle.
“I can’t speak for everyone’s religious beliefs,” said Adm. John Harvey, head of the Navy’s Fleet Forces Command, “but if you want to define a miracle, what happened here yesterday meets that definition for me.”
Coach class pilots.
They'll spend months analyzing a decision these guys had about four seconds to make.
be fair I posted after that saying I had read the whole story and gave them props.
ps. I served just like you so keep the armchair **** to yourself please
My understanding is that eyewitnesses heard nothing from the aircraft, meaning both engines were out. Also heard this from a Navy buddy. So they were piloting a stone. They could have done nothing at all at that point. Had they only lost a single engine they would have flown back to base.
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