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F-18 Fighter Jet Crashes Into Virginia Apartment Complex
New submitter atomatica writes "A Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet crashed shortly after takeoff into an apartment complex near Virginia Beach, Virginia. Both pilots and multiple civilians have been transported to a hospital."
Gizmodo has lots of shiny pictures and more detail.
Even if you only count one apartment building demolished, the F-18 still has a better combat record than the F-22.
(I only joke because there were no fatalities!)
We all know it was an inside job by the owners of the apartment complex who just wanted to build more expensive real estate without having to actually pay for it.
Anyone have an idea why this happened? Pilot error? Mechanical failure?
Gravity.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Early reports indicate the pilot was tweeting while coming in for a landing...
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
With current fuel prices being so high, will some lucky person in the area have hit the jackpot when they check their pool for the stuff? They could skim it off the top and run their truck for a week or two. I really should Google aviation fuel, for some reason I have it in my head as being pretty similar to diesel.
To be fair, I thought "catastrophic mechanical malfunction" was just military speak for "a building just went through my engines" and not the root cause of the actual accident.
United States military protocol, a press conference was announced later on in the day at which an amorphous "surge strategy" was announced and a commitment to peace in the region was renewed. Many analysts in the media blamed weather or mechanical failure, while fox news attributed the terrorist mechanical failure to Obamacare death panels.
In response to media-fueled concerns and United States foreign policy
the country then promptly invaded the neighboring state of North Carolina.
Good people go to bed earlier.
>> How exactly is this News for Nerds?
Slashdot always reports on things that crash windows.
He should have used the boost to get through!