Member of Blue Angels involved in a crash.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 1:15 pm

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.

RaVNzCRoFT · Post by **RaVNzCRoFT** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 1:18 pm

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

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 1:28 pm

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.

fishface617 · Post by **fishface617** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 2:43 pm

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

Leiukemia · Post by **Leiukemia** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 3:09 pm

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

[cc]z@nd! · Post by **[cc]z@nd!** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 3:51 pm

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.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 3:55 pm

It was the pilot.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 4:16 pm

God damn it.

Pyroman · Post by **Pyroman** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 4:17 pm

Ahh man that's terrible.

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

bibbit · Post by **bibbit** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 4:33 pm

They don't know. Maybe a bird.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 4:39 pm

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

rossmum · Post by **rossmum** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 6:03 pm

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.

Leiukemia · Post by **Leiukemia** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 7:45 pm

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

rossmum · Post by **rossmum** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 11:55 pm

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.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 12:00 am

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.

rossmum · Post by **rossmum** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 4:53 am

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

Dootuz · Post by **Dootuz** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 5:52 am

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

me to

Pray for him!