Anybody have any credible info on either event in the last few days? I heard 2 large cyber attacks on US gov or US IT infrastructure this weekend too...
The 2018 EO says nothing about the DNI report needs to be made public...
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F-16s crash all the time. Sometimes pilots die or get injured. My wing had a highly experienced pilot training with a younger pilot and smashed into the bottom of the younger pilot's jet. He died when the canopy crushed his head and he smashed into a mountain at several hundred miles an hour.
It would honestly take a lot of work to remember how many jets we actually had crash over the 5 years I was in that unit. Might even be > 10. I can think of I think 5 from my own squadron in a wing of 3 if you include jets running into each other. Pretty sure...4 or 5.
Did you just reference top gun "Goose" scene and a really bad James Bond movie scene in your description of your "wing" accident? Are you for real?
Yes. I'm for real. I worked avionics on F-16s. 6 years if you include training. Almost always pilot error. We lost one when a pilot had a fuel feed issue but wasn't following his checklists which would have had him catch it. Ran out of fuel in line for inflight refueling.