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Apparently one of the Blue Angels just crashed in a neighborhood during one of their shows.

Recent headlines:
A member of the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels precision flight team has crashed during an air show in Beaufort, South Carolina, witnesses tell CNN.
Report: Blue Angels plane down on Pine Grove Road in Beaufort, South Carolina
Aircraft down in a Beaufort neighborhood
Report: Several houses on fire as result of Blue Angels crash

CNN
Fox News

http://news.google.com/news?q=blue%20angels

So continues the tragedies of this week.

That's terrible. I wish best of luck to the pilot.

Here's the story:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/21/bluean ... index.html

CNN just said they have 1 confirmed dead. No word on who it was, civilian or pilot.

That is awful, I have seen the Blue Angles myself and I must say they are very talented and entertaining.

that really sucks. I've seen the blue angels, they rock.

1 confirmed dead? i was about to say it's the pilot, but i'm starting to lean more towards some unlucky guy watching tv...

this week's sucked so far.

It was the pilot.

God damn it.

Ahh man that's terrible.

Have they found out why it went down? The article won't load for me right now.

They don't know. Maybe a bird.

I don't know where you got your information, but they confirmed that he hit a tall Pine tree.

That sucks

Though I have to say - and I know I'm going to sound like a dick for doing so, but bear with me - at least he wasn't flying an old warbird. I hate it even more when it's an already rare plane that goes down, at least they can just get another F/A-18 at the drop of a hat. Losing a pilot is terrible, losing a pilot and a beautiful piece of history is just plain rock-bottom.

Well not exactly at the drop of a hat, jets are pretty expensive.

Yes, but as a US military show team that's an expense that they don't really have to worry about; and it's only a monetary expense. When a warbird goes down, it's a cost measured in preservation of history, not currency.

I fail to see what relevance this has to the crash yesterday. Nothing was stated about the plane, really. The focus of the discussion is the death of the pilot and the fact that it crashed in a residential area.

I brought the point up as the previous few fatal airshow accidents I'd heard of involved antique aircraft.

At least nobody on the ground was killed, but it's a shame about the pilot. He probably didn't even realise until it was too late, especially given the fact he was at such a low altitude

Leiukemia wrote:that really sucks. I've seen the blue angels, they rock.

me to Pray for him!