Blue Angle Crash in 2007
Does anyone remember hearing about the Blue Angle Crash in 2007 of April I do. I just turned 21 the month before nothing could keep me down. I was apart of the greatest force in the world and just had my 21st birthday. Anyways back to the story, a month later on April 23 the last day of a two day air show in Beaufort SC on the Air Station the a Blue Angle Pilot fainted. On his final turn before landing the fist 4 planes turned and while the 5 was turning he started falling on a slant to the left and then he was out of sight. Two days later we were called in to find the remains of the plane. As a heavy equipment operator this was one of the first times I actually got to do my job on something bigger than off loading a truck. I pulled one of the engines and a few other parts that were'nt in a thousand peices. On the way out of the woods. I saw a man pick up on of the soul's to his boots. We were their for days stacking boxes of thousands of peices of the plane and the big parts of the plane. Its sad that it took this man dying for me to do my job but thats how life is. for a couple of weeks the new's and CNN kept saying that a bird got cought in the engine, but anyone who knows of have been around Aviation that this was not true. Weeks later they blamed it on the fact he drank the night before. They didnt take into fact that he hadnt drank in over 12 hours when the standard rule is that you cant drink less than 8 hours before your duty. This Pilot had trained for hundreds of hours before that day. It was his 1st air show and his family and wife were their. does anyone think that the reason the plane went down was because they dont wear g suits. Or that the plane went down because their planes are to old. If anyone has seen these men fly you will know that he had no time even if he had awakened to bail out because of how low they fly to the ground. These men are about 14 feet above the tree line. I watched CNN and looked in the Marine Corps Times for months to hear the report when they peiced the plane back together but never heard nothing. I think of this alot and how it would hurt my family to watch me die. I am not afraid of dying but my worst fear is that i will die in front of my loved one. Since I watched this happen I have always had nightmares that a senario similar to this would happen to my loved ones. Does anyone have any Ideas.