T-38 Crashes in Southern California

[BusyBee604]

A couple of the U-2 pilots here were very good friends with Mark from their days at El Forko Grande.

huggyu2, My Grandson just arrived home here in the San Diego area, discharged from the USAF after 4 years stationed at your "El Forko Grande". Been hearing horror stories about the winter WX, and the spring floods affecting GF. The lad is still shivering by habit, after two weeks back in SoCal. It seems that manned flying there is minimal, with the majority of air ops being UAVs.

BzB

 

[xj220]

The backseater is currently a classmate of mine at UTSI, Maj Lee Jones. Great man, sharp engineer, and all this was totally preventable as the AIB clearly states:

http://www.airforcemag.com/SiteCollectionDocuments/Reports/2009/October 2009/Day14/T-38_Crash_052109_AIB_report.pdf

Very interesting to see how the Air Force does their mishap investigations and reports. Sad to see something so preventable occur.

 

[wlawr005]

The AF even has a picture of the actual plane on the cover sheet of the AIB report. Shit hot man, shit hot.

 

[lowflier03]

Nice thread resurrection. I sometimes wish the Navy would be as forthcoming, ..

Agree. There is a lot to be learned from mishaps, unfortunately (as has been discussed on AW at length) we are too scared/stupid to do it correctly. This is definitely one area the AF has right. The only reason I have a copy of my SIR is because I sure as hell wasn't going to see it lost to the useless database in the sky.

 

[Swanee]

...This sounds eerily familiar to an incident involving an airplane I've flown in the past. The difference is that no one was killed. We were lucky and the paraloft guys were good at their job.

 

[KODAK]

Nice thread resurrection.

Thanks - have been looking back through old posts, lots of good stuff here at AW. Currently on page 60 of 165 in this thread..