Posted: 5/31/2008 5:12:27 PM EDT
Found this picture on the net.
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Video of crash Video of crash from inside the cockpit More pics of the crash               
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From Airliners.net: "While making a touch and go, the aircraft had a flame out and after the crew ejected, it crashed on the airfield" Location: Uden - Volkel (UDE / EHVK) Netherlands www.airliners.net/photo/Netherlands---Air/Fokker-F-16BM-Fighting/1120386&tbl=photo_info&photo_nr=1&prev_id=&next_id=0843185 |
Pago Pago April 1980 Pilot with history of flat hatting, was at an airshow there. After releasing some parachutists he elected to return for an unbriefed flyby. Flew underneath a tram way he didn't know was there and severed the rudder with the cable. Killed 6 on the plane and 2 on the ground. Destroyed a hotel that was thankfully empty at the time. At his funeral the pilot's dad told the story, how the greatest thing that ever happened was when his son took him for a ride in "his" P-3. Min crew on a P-3 is 4, this guy just took his dad up flying one weekend at an airshow away from his home base. Bad deal.  
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That was Patron 50, wasn't it. One of my brother's instructors was VP-50 guy, I think. |
Yes. Years later, in 1991, they had 2 P-3s collide in an Exercise off San Diego. Both aircraft and crews (27 SOB) were lost. 
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