These planes crash more than the media reports. I used to get copies of the RCAF Flight Comment magazine. They get tons of bird strikes ect up in cold lake, sometimes smashing the canopy and almost killing the pilot. We probably lose a plane every 6 months to a year. I was in cold lake one time up in the control tower on a tour, they had an CF-18 coming in with no avionics because his computer crashed. It was pretty awesome watching the wingman coming in with him until 50 feet above the runway then going full afterburner to take off again.
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