RE: I feel bad for the pilots

2012-04-06 Thread Eric Roberts
Pilots. Any plane will try to dump fuel before they crash if they can to minimize the impact explosion... -Original Message- 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 some

Re: I feel bad for the pilots

2012-04-06 Thread Ray Champagne
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: > > They are probably going to have some survivor's guilt and a lot of > second guessing if anyone died. > > The ar

Re: I feel bad for the pilots

2012-04-06 Thread LRS Scout
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