F/A-18 crashes in San Diego

[mtechnik]

What a speach/statement by the husband/father/son-in law of the victims!

Talk about humility, compassion and understanding.
I was so moved by his simple words.

[blunttech]

IM A LITTLE WORRIED ABOUT ragged325,.. i dont know the geography down there but inhope hes ok. hes normally on here spouting off about something and i havent seen him

[shiftbmw]

Last year I lived two streets over from there in that very same neighborhood. A bunch of my friends are in that neighborhood as well. Crazy shit...

[e30sd]

Apparently, that pilot never saw "The Great Santini" . . .

nice one, sportsfans

[WhatWentWong]

"...the pilot, ... sitting on the front lawn, making a call on his cell phone..."

Damn, just like what you'd do if you just crashed your car.

"Sir, yeah hi....can you please send someone to pick me up, I just crashed my Hornet...yes I am fine Sir."

[WhatWentWong]

I heard someone say that there was possibly full hydraulics failure which would make that thing almost impossible to control at that altitude. It would be like trying to performance-drive a 70's Cadillac with power nothing.

I would guess more like a Ferrari with no steering wheel. I thought they were completely fly-by-wire, so there is no mechanical linkage between the stick and the control surfaces. All the surfaces droop when the hornet is parked on the ground, so I imagine without hydraulics, they would just be limp dick in mid air.

Sucks.

[e30sd]

this is great, the family is having a press conference at the scene and while the grieving husband is pouring his heart out a flight of f/a-18's goes by. oh the irony.

[ldsbeaker]

Rest assured, there WILL be an investigation. (By the Marines/Navy)

[Jordan325iC]

If the jet really was beyond his control, the pilot did the right thing by ejecting. As sad as this is, it wouldn't have made it any better to add another dead body to the list and have another grieving family.

[DCColegrove]

why, do military jets run on Motronic too?

I bet the CPS failed

Sick... But funny none the less.

Lots of shit to go wrong in a military jet, my father worked for Grumman Air Craft when I was a kid and he used to take me to work with him when I was about 9 or 10 a NAS Pt Mugu.

I got to see the F14's in hangars with all the shit pulled out of them and it just amazed me that there was just... So much shit in them.

Surprises me when they don't fall out of the sky.

[MoparJ]

Apparently, that pilot never saw "The Great Santini" . . .

Weird, that's exactly what I told my coworkers when I heard what happened. Most of them are younger and haven't even heard of that movie, so it was hard to explain without ruining the ending just in case they ever decided to watch it.

Good movie, too...

[Dave]

Apparently, that pilot never saw "The Great Santini" . . .

[SpecM]

isn't it a F14 tomcat in top gun?

but yes...

[mtechnik]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...h_N.htm?csp=34



isn't it a F14 tomcat in top gun?

The text just refers to the Miramar district being featured in Top Gun ;)

[Eric]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-12-08-plane-crash_N.htm?csp=34

The F-18 is a supersonic jet used widely in the Navy and Marine Corps and by the Navy's stunt-flying Blue Angels. Miramar, featured in the movie Top Gun, is home to about 10,000 Marines.

isn't it a F14 tomcat in top gun?