OT: F-18 crashes in my old neighborhood
Dec. 8th, 2008 06:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lazypadawanYou might have heard about a military F-18 jet crashing into a residential area of San Diego today. As of writing, three are confirmed dead, one is missing, and the pilot seems to be okay. Two houses were destroyed.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,463725,00.html
The lazypadawan lair is of course not near the crash site, but I once lived on one of the streets where it occurred. We moved in waaay back in 1973 and lived there about three years before moving to the other end of University City in 1976. I remember seeing jets from Miramar Air Base flying over the house all of the time. I used to watch the Blue Angels during the annual air show from my backyard.
It's a real shame about the people on the ground who got killed and the pilot who will have to live with this for the rest of his life. Given that a sizable portion of S.D. is in somebody's flight path, urban crashes are a hazard of living here.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,463725,00.html
The lazypadawan lair is of course not near the crash site, but I once lived on one of the streets where it occurred. We moved in waaay back in 1973 and lived there about three years before moving to the other end of University City in 1976. I remember seeing jets from Miramar Air Base flying over the house all of the time. I used to watch the Blue Angels during the annual air show from my backyard.
It's a real shame about the people on the ground who got killed and the pilot who will have to live with this for the rest of his life. Given that a sizable portion of S.D. is in somebody's flight path, urban crashes are a hazard of living here.
