Hundreds of homes in its path. And now its pilot, from Chelmsford, being hailed a hero for averting disaster before ejecting from the plane.
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However, there has been no change to their scheduled performance at the Rhode Island National Guard Open House on June 11-12 or for their performance at the OC Air Show on June 18-19.
Under searing sun and sweeping blue skies at the U.S. Air Force Academy, he told graduates they’d be called upon to strike a complicated balance between realism and idealism, withdrawal and overreach.
Benjamin Newell, spokesman for the Air Force’s Air Combat Command in Langley, Va., said he was unable to release specifics about Turner’s crash, citing an ongoing investigation. Blue Angels pilot and Durango native Captain Jeff Kuss died when his jet crashed in Tennessee.
The teams are pricey, too.
The Thunderbirds issued a statement cancelling this weekend’s performance at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico.
An F-16 with the Air Force aerial acrobatics team has crashed at a demonstration. The Blue Angels staged at Wallops during the Air Show.
“You don’t do it”, Turner said. He said his goal was to inspire all the kids now looking up at him.
RC Smith, Deputy Chief Operations with the El Paso County Office of Emergency Management, says they train with military partners in the region for incidents like this.
“They were coming, one by one, over our housing area to make their final turn, and we counted five airplanes”, he said. In Iraq, troop levels have crept back up, while special forces have been dispatched to Syria and Libya.
She went inside to bake a chocolate pie when she heard a loud boom.
He also questioned the value of the flying teams in building goodwill with the public.
“I don’t know that the US military necessarily needs to sell itself to the general population”, he said.
The Thunderbird F-16 crashed in a field shortly after doing a flyby at an Air Force Academy graduation ceremony. The pilot was able to safely eject from the jet.
Five other F/A-18 jets landed safely moments after the crash. That same official said the pilot did not eject and was likely killed. The crash happened about 15 miles south of the academy.
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This undated photo provided by the U.S. Air Force shows Maj.
