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F-18 Just Crashed a few miles from my house!

Postby raptorx » Mon Dec 08, 2008 3:32 pm

San Diego, CA,  12pm:  An F-18 crashed into University City just a few miles from my house.  Pilot ejected but plane obliterated at least 1 house.  I can see the smoke from my balcony.  

HOLY CRAP! :o

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Re: F-18 Just Crashed a few miles from my house!

Postby flyboy 28 » Mon Dec 08, 2008 3:43 pm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28115760/

Let's hope for the best. :-/
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Re: F-18 Just Crashed a few miles from my house!

Postby raptorx » Mon Dec 08, 2008 3:54 pm

no confirmed injured yet (pilot taken to hospital but no injuries reported).
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Re: F-18 Just Crashed a few miles from my house!

Postby Dr.bob7 » Mon Dec 08, 2008 5:17 pm

Hope for the best

and i found this in the article

We saw two big bangs
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Re: F-18 Just Crashed a few miles from my house!

Postby flavio » Mon Dec 08, 2008 6:11 pm

Oh man, right outside miramar thats not good. hopefully no one got injured.
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Re: F-18 Just Crashed a few miles from my house!

Postby mrjake2002 » Mon Dec 08, 2008 6:22 pm

BBC reporting two dead confirmed on the ground so far.  :(
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Re: F-18 Just Crashed a few miles from my house!

Postby Anxyous » Tue Dec 09, 2008 1:59 pm

Make that three :(
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Re: F-18 Just Crashed a few miles from my house!

Postby AMDDDA » Tue Dec 09, 2008 7:17 pm

Make that three :(

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Re: F-18 Just Crashed a few miles from my house!

Postby raptorx » Tue Dec 09, 2008 8:35 pm

So sad.  Started out just being a couple houses and now it's a man's wife, wife's mother, and their two little children.  I can't imagine how bad the pilot must feel-he tried to put it down in the canyon just a hundred feet or so away.

This makes the biggest tragedy here in a long time (I don't think we lost 4 people in any one of the recent megafires).

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