why is there no thread on this?
>The pilot of a Blue Angels jet was killed Thursday during practice for a weekend air show, hours after a Thunderbirds F-16 crashed following a flyover at the U.S. Air Force Academy commencement ceremony attended by the President, officials said.
>The Navy said the Blue Angels pilot died from injuries suffered in the crash in Tennessee.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/02/politics/military-plane-crash/index.html
rip
>>30150824
Maybe Russia or China testing their new weapon?
so AF > Gavy
cool
>>30150838
>>30150839
memes aside, this is actually bretty sad. i always loved watching the blue angels. i hope they dont cancel a lot of shows
Shit.
>>30150838
>Russia
>testing new weapons
those krokodilniggers should be more focused on fixing their economy
Poor bastard. I don't know if it would be better if it was a handling error that bit him in the ass, or if it was something out of his control - like the reports of the Blue Angels aircraft being line aircraft with no time left on the airframes.
>>30150839
>hours after a Thunderbirds F-16 crashed following a flyover at the U.S. Air Force Academy
Only in surviving apparently
>>30150891
>"He had already put his gear down, and that's when the incident occurred," Hammond said, adding that Turner radioed that he was maneuvering so he wouldn't hit any houses. "He made a conscious effort to direct his aircraft away from some of the local neighborhoods.
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This really sucks to hear. I saw them perform in Kansas City last year and it was amazing.
>>30150891
>only at being better pilots apparently.
fixed
>>30150907
this. i watch em when they come to seattle
>>30150824
How did he crash?
Those are blue skies and no obstacles anywhere.
>>30150929
no reports on how the blue angel crashed only on how the thunderbird crashed
>>30150929
Planes are a lot shittier than you'd think anon
>>30150938
Oh, so a pilot crashed into the area where the Blue Angels air-pilot happened to be at the time.
Man, that is shitty and unlucky.
>>30150910
My point was that the aerobatic team of both USAF and USN had a crash yesterday
>>30150967
no two seperate events 1500 miles apart
>>30150972
still today.
>>30150824
o7 you will be missed
>>30150974
OP made it sound like they were related somehow...
Still shitty and unlucky.
Do those jets still have the ejection equipment?
I think they're stripped of all the weapons equipment and the support for the Gsuits and probably some other things.
>>30150906
>;_;7
No more honorable death than this.
>>30151002
i am OP, my bad. thats just how the article had it.
Thunderbird crashed with the pilot ejecting safely (something wrong with landing gear)
Hours later Blue Angle crashed, killing the pilot.
>>30151005
no news on the BA death, all that will come out with the report most likely
>>30151027
that was the tunderbird pilot who ejected safely. still o7
nickel on the grass, brother.
>>30151005
yeah. about 10 years ago a Thunderbird ejected at an airshow at Mountain Home AFB.
>>30151027
that was the guy who lived.
>>30150838
Low IQ Ameriniggers always blame ruskies and chinks for their own stupidity. kek'd
>>30151363
>shieeet
>>30151048
Oscar Brand music.
>>30151363
>literally too autistic to understand a joke
>posting from a noguns shithole
Please leave, /mlp/ might be more to your speed
we told them it was against regulations to perform a kolvoord starburst... why don't these navy pilots ever listen...
>>30151402
>>30151433
just as I predicted... you're just so damn butthurt and blame others for everything you retards do to yourselves. you should look inward to find your problems and not blame others. it's your own fault your country has been turned into a 3rd world shithole. you can't even keep a bunch of show planes up in the air!
>>30150824
I'm inclined to believe it's mechanical failure. It's no secret the Blue Angels' legacy hornets are falling apart like the rest of the legacy hornet fleet.
>>30150824
Happened right near me man. Heard a crash and saw the smoke not too long after
>>30151590
Here's your (You)
>>30151590
(You)
Now that you have gotten the attention you so deperately craved, go out and tell your countrymen of your brave accomplishment on a Chinese Siamese Cat appreciation board.
>>30150824
crashed and died in the worst state
RIP blue angel pilot, you didn't deserve this fate.
>>30150824
Pensacolafag here. Sad time for our city. Been watching the blues my whole life and watched them practice at the navy base about a month ago. Rest in peace Captain
>>30151610
I would think a fuel supply issue.
>>30151408
Len you should literally blow your fucking brains out you cuckold
>>30150824
>Fatniks
>Controlled flight
>>30150974
>>30152461
Pensafag here too. I work under their practice path. Feels bad man.
From what eye witnesses say is that the plane stalled out.
>>30153024
It did
Plane went in for a loop and stalled out
>>30150972
Neva ben dun befo!
>>30150906
That was the f16 crash where the pilot was OK. The f14 crashed shortly after takeoff apparently
>>30150824
why do they keep doing this bullshit? seems like a waste of money and unnecessary risk
>>30153926
Good for recruitment
Mfw I saw the BA at a local airport last weekend . Pic related OC.
>>30151610
In general, for many years now, it tends to be about whether the pilot lives or dies. If the pilot survives it's mechanical failure. If he dies, pilot error. Not even joking, gentlemen, I wish I was.
>>30150824
False flags. We had two F16's crash, too. And a B52 bomber. Media is playing it up.
Military needs more money, boys. Good thing we're picking fights across the globe, when we can't even keep the planes in our own country in the air.
Time to start better relocating and maintaining our military assets, instead of retiring planes early to "sell" to allies, while the media shows our planes falling out of the sky...
And at the same time, we're talking about unmanned drone "swarms" escorting and working with F35's.
Tired of our government wasting billions while the 1% gets richer, and the other 99% take the bill.
>>30150824
was able to watch them from work when they were in Alcoa last month. Great show then, very tragic, now.
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feels bad man. I saw them at Andrews AFB when I was a kid.
>>30151005
Thunderbirds and blue angels are still the original aircraft minus weapons and vulcan cannon iirc and they can be fitted with them and combat ready in about 12-24 hours. They really outta play in red flag events and such. R.i.p.
>>30156362
/pol/fag, get out and stay out.
