« Saturday Evening Stupid |
Main
|
Overnight Open Thread »
April 07, 2012
Good Friday Miracle: No Fatalities In Va. Beach F-18 Crash
What can you say? From the reports on the ground, it looked like this was going to be awful.
As it turned out, not so much.
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - A 12-ton Navy jet loaded with tons of fuel crashes in a spectacular fireball into a big apartment complex, scattering plane parts and wiping out some 40 units. How is it that everyone survived?
The mayor of Virginia Beach could only call it a "Good Friday miracle" and pilots marveled at how a failed training flight that engulfed buildings in flames managed to crash without killing anyone. The student pilot, his instructor and five on the ground were hurt, but all were out of the hospital by Saturday.
Via @JeffEmanuel