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Old 12-10-2008, 04:22 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by ken0042 View Post
When I first heard about the crash I wondered why the pilot ejected- so many times I've seen stories of fighter jets crashing and the pilot sacrificing himself so that he could at least control the plane enough to hit a street instead of a house.

Maybe the plane was so uncontrollable that he had no other choice.

I was in SD a few weeks ago for the Sunday night NFL game. A couple of F-18s did a flyby after the anthem- I wonder if it was one of the same pilots.
I was on another another forum a long time where some guys who claimed to be air force pilots were joking around how they would purposely buzz over residential areas because they thought it was funny. And wasn't there a case in Italy a few years ago and it turned out to be pilot error?

I don't know if anyone knows the facts about this situation, but I wouldn't be so quick to not blame the pilot.
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