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USN F18 Goes Down In Neighborhood....


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..where I used to live, about 10mins from where I live now. Got Oceana Naval AirBase right here, happened during practice runs. 2 pilots ejected, dont have any word on any residents....

more... This is not good...

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Can I get the USN capitalized in the title?

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Hope everyone is alright.

I live roughly 5 minutes from where this happened. poo is crazy here right now. Also work at the oceanfront so it's going to be wonderful driving to work tonight considering both the interstate and Laskin rd. are either shut down or backed up for miles.

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From what I have heard, witnesses saw a piece of the plane break off just before the crash, prolly the fuel tank... There has been stuff said for years about teh Navy telling the city not to build around the airbase decades ago, it always comes up when people complain about the jet noise. Those pilots are practicing protecting your asses, and you want to complain because theyre too loud? DeltaBravo defined...

Press conference/Official word on the crash supposed to be at 4pm... My link above should work, its the local Fox/NBC news station...

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hotdogs - never will understand the logic of low level flights over a highly populated area unless you re strafing it - makes zero sense to me but what do I know?

I was stationed there for a while. That area is actually part of the takeoff/landing pattern. I doubt they were doing practice flights, unless it was practice landings. For low level flight (which does need to be practiced) they have areas further inland that they use.

Besides, if the plane has a malfunction as this one obviously did, it probably doesn't matter if you are flying low or high. The plane is coming down over a populated area.

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I work with a lady whose son is on the load team for this aircraft.

He told her just now that everything was normal but in mid take-off one of the wings just fell off the plane. The whole base is on lockdown and he said someone is going to jail for this.

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I work with a lady whose son is on the load team for this aircraft.

He told her just now that everything was normal but in mid take-off one of the wings just fell off the plane. The whole base is on lockdown and he said someone is going to jail for this.

By someone you mean the plane was saboutaged/shot at or a tech left something loose?

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