F/A-18 crashes in San Diego

[SpecM]

Holy crap, just saw this on Yahoo news. Not cool.

any reports on damage/body count?

[Jon325i]

Linked from DrudgeReport:

http://www.sandiego6.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=1e261b8c-260e-46de-9da0-cb1635075720&rss=tick

...and of course Google News....

http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn&ncl=1278752840&topic=h

Jon

P.S. First.

[mtechnik]

Yeah saw this 1/2 hour ago.

[Farbin Kaiber]

I was watching at 12:30 when the first newscasts came on. I already forgot about it. Shows something about the newscycle, and attention spans.

[SpecM]

sheesh sorry, I just found out

it's 6pm over here on the East coast, ya know

[SamE30e]

Thats shitty, any idea what happened?

[Funkmasta]

I heard that there were no injuries on the ground.... that was soon after it happened though

[Farbin Kaiber]

Thats shitty, any idea what happened?

A plane fell out of the sky 2 miles before the landing strip.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Two dead on the ground as of 51 min ago.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/12/08/military.jet.crash/?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail

Also, two loud pops, presumably one from the burners going out, and one from smacking the ground.

[SpecM]

looks like an engine failed

[Vedubin01]

He was trying to make an emergency landing with one engine when the other engine lost power.

[gazellebeigem3]

wow, thats awful. I cant imagine how rough thats going to be for the pilot, let alone the family members who survived.

[Jon325i]

Its all boosh's fault.

[SpecM]

Its all boosh's fault.

why, do military jets run on Motronic too?

I bet the CPS failed

[e30sd]

it was in my hizood, i was at home grilling up lunch and my bro and saw the jet fly at like 200 ft with gear down, knew something was up. then goes BOOM.

at least the steak was good.