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April 21, 2007

Oh, No

Blue Angel Down at Airshow

NEWS 3 has confirmed a Blue Angel aircraft has gone down somewhere near Pine Grove Road in Beaufort. NEWS 3 has crews on the scene and we'll have the latest tonight at 6 and 11.


Oh, no. First reports are in a residential neighborhood.

Say a little prayer.

UPDATE: The pinhead on CNN has put MCAS Beaufort (S.C.) near Camp Lejeune (N.C.). Somebody hand her a map. Reports are a house is on fire.

UPDATE: Damn. Fox is saying the Navy has confirmed that the pilot didn't make it out. Sh*t. But holy moly, are these assholes talking out their...asses on this coverage. FOX even had a newscaster on the phone from Tampa who was supposed to have flown with them in Tampa, but didn't get to because of mechanical difficulties. WTF? Because he got bumped from his media flight the day of the airshow, now he's a military aviation expert?! And some granny listening in Cleveland is thinking "Oh my God, those planes break all the time! Why are they flying them?"

These people make me sick.

UPDATE: They're backing off the house one fire, too. I'm hoping that turns out to be true. One death is one too many.

UPDATE: Local fishwrap reporting it was the Number 6 pilot.

...Reports indicate that it was Blue Angel No. 6 that went down and plane No. 1 circled the Air Station, possibly looking for the pilot. Later, officials at the crash site called for the coroner.

What a miracle no one else was killed.

Posted by tree hugging sister at April 21, 2007 04:42 PM

Comments

Horrible news. That's the first Blue Angel mishap I can remember. I know the Thunderbirds had one terrible one where they all lawn darted into the ground, but I don't recall the Blues having any mishaps.

This is horrible.

Posted by: Mike Rentner at April 21, 2007 06:50 PM

Oh man, how awful.

Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at April 21, 2007 07:05 PM

They had a couple guys killed in a pre-show fly around when we first moved here in '99, Mike. Then they dumped one in the drink over the Gulf just a bit from base a couple years ago, but no one was hurt.

Pensacola's gonna be reeling.

Posted by: tree hugging sister at April 21, 2007 07:10 PM

This is terrible!

Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at April 22, 2007 12:02 AM