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FoxNews Breaking: F-18 crashes near Miramar Marine Base

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Posted by .com 2006-11-30 15:47|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Confirmation (sort of) that pilot ejected. FoxNews showing short vid of smoking wreckage from a distance - news helicopters not allowed in airspace of Marine Station Miramar, of course.

Posted by .com 2006-11-30 16:00|| 2006-11-30 16:00|| Front Page Top

#2
Local radio station reports scanner traffic that pilot ejected safely and recovered.

Posted by Master of Obvious 2006-11-30 16:12|| 2006-11-30 16:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Hmm, wonder if they were trying to duplicate something that went wrong before? Could just be accident too. Either way I'm relieved the pilot is ok.

Posted by Charles 2006-11-30 16:32|| 2006-11-30 16:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Charles: Accident reconstruction would not normally involve actual flying of the aircraft and attepmting to duplicate anything suspected of causing the accident. The use of flight simulators and or maintenance trainers would be more likely.
Had a Marine accident board member visit my A-6 flight control trainer and place a rivet bucking bar in the flight controls and witness how it affected the linkage and control surfaces. The bucking bar had been pulled from a wreck and the crew (ejected and survived!) described what the aircraft was doing (or not doing as the case may be) We were able to duplicate the mishap aircraft's actions to a 'T'. A similiar scenario would be employed using the flight simulators and flight control computers. Any 'black box' data that was usable is a gold mine for such an investigation and at no risk to other people/ equipment.

Posted by USN, ret. 2006-11-30 17:09|| 2006-11-30 17:09|| Front Page Top

#5 I work a mile or so from Mirimar and saw a pillar of smoke earlier in the day and presume now that that was the crash.

Unlike the Navy top gun school that was at Mirimar before it as far as I can tell the Marines never fly over land only as long as it takes to get over the ocean. Since the smoke was near or on the base I assume the accident happened during take-off or landing.

Mind you this is just a guess. I didn't hear the crash and the smoke I saw might be unrelated.

Posted by rjschwarz 2006-11-30 17:59|| 2006-11-30 17:59|| Front Page Top

#6 http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20061130-1333-bn30plane2.html

Posted by crazyhorse 2006-11-30 21:07|| 2006-11-30 21:07|| Front Page Top

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