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Originally Posted by carguy_
Yeah, the crew. If there is hell , that guy piloting is in one. Other people should never share the same fate. While driving other ppl somwhere I always keep it super safe and careful. That said, none of them deserved the time to actually think that they`re going to die in a few seconds.
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I know, it's sad but unfortunately it happens in military life. The ultimate responsibility of an officer is for the life of his men, it was obvious that the guy went gung-ho long before the accidents, there were reports of his reckless flying, but nobody did a thing to ground him. He's as responsible as the men that didn't rip the wings off his flightsuit and bitchslapped him..
There have also been cases of whole formations flying into a mountain or on the ground: when you're busy flying formation you rely on your leader for direction, and if he fails you die with him.
I personally was involved in quite a hair raising experience once, flying a vertical formation with a guy who obviously didn't have much experience, even if he stated the opposite: it was 4 planes flying one under the other, and the guy on the top, who was the leader, didn't seem to realise that BELOW him there were other planes that needed to keep a formation and in the meantime trying not to spread themselves over the countryside.. so instead of keeping it safe and flying at a redundantly safe altitude, he would jerk his plane up and down, so we had to work hard to keep formation and not get killed.. I was flying at the bottom, so I was between a plane and the ground: after a couple of near misses with the trees I pulled out, we flew back to the airfield and had a not so quiet word with the guy, who obviously wasn't as experienced as he said..
06-30-2011, 10:56 AM
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