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"John A. Weeks III" wrote in message ...
In article , SA wrote: "While there were 36 major accidents that killed 24 Thunderbird pilots between 1953 and 1981, there have been no fatalities and only one minor accident since the 1982 tragedy -- a fact in which Creech took great pride." Well, there was at least one fatality since 1982. A member of the public crashed an auto through the airport gate and rammed one of the F-16's as it was parked. I recall that the F-16 nose gear collapsed in the impact, and the jet fell on the car, killing the driver. I didn't look up the date, but I do recall this happening at Selfridge in Michigan in the mid to late 90's. Good friend of mine was the Chief of Police at Selfridge when that happened. My faulty memory says 1993-1994. The driver was a dependent who had been over at the Navy Club (Mole Hole) tossing a few back, apparently, and in the middle of the night, instead of taking his car thru the Navy Club parking lot toward the perimeter road, he drove out onto the ramp (the Mole Hole is the old tanker alert facility.. its literally right on the edge of the ramp), took a taxiway across the runway and down another taxiway to where the T-birds were parked. (They were on a taxiway away from all the other airshow aircraft for security reasons) The roving sentry reported that the car didn't have any lights on and he didn't even see it approaching until the last second when he heard the motor revving up. In true military fashion, **** ran downhill when it was time to assign blame, so my friend the chief of police got axed instead of the general in charge of the base. Even though they'd placed a higher level of security on the T-Birds aircraft than they normally call for, and that the sentries couldn't have done anything in time to stop that car even if they'd been locked and loaded and there had been 10 of them out there. That was pretty messed up, however. NIN |
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