Pilots. Any plane will try to dump fuel before they crash if they can to
minimize the impact explosion...
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From: PT [mailto:cft...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 2:43 PM
To: cf-community
Subject: I feel bad for the pilots
They are probably going to have
I would think them dumping fuel would be a smart way to minimize damage on
the ground...man, what a terrible thing for everyone involved.
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:43 PM, PT wrote:
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> They are probably going to have some survivor's guilt and a lot of
> second guessing if anyone died.
>
> The ar
Man that sucks, I wonder what happened.
The F-18 is an incredible jet, one of the only ones in the world that has
enough thrust to go straight up, continuously, without stalling. I got to
fly in one at Maple Flag in the 80's, it's sick what these things can do.
My dad worked on them for years a
They are probably going to have some survivor's guilt and a lot of
second guessing if anyone died.
The article mentions that they stuck with it until the last second, so
props for that.
It also mentions the plane was dumping fuel as it came down. Is that
something the pilots did, or was that
