Three dead in F/A18 jet crash.

It wasn't a training mission.

 

Missing the point for $5,000, Alex.

 

The F/A-18D plane, which authorities described as disabled, was trying to land at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. The jet had just performed landing training on a Navy aircraft carrier before the pilot reported having trouble, according to the Marine Corps.

 

So it was training over water?

 

Since the best place to find an aircraft carrier is usually in, you know, water I'd say the answer to that question would be "yes".

 

Aren't you cute.

 

The base was there long before the University City neighborhoods/schools were built.

Keep building and building, eventually you're going to start running up against major military bases, unstable seaside cliffs and other places you really shouldn't be living too close to. But people don't care.

 

That's part of my point, I guess, buck.

Miramar is now bordered on three sides by dense suburban housing. When they first opened that tract to the military 90 years ago, there was nothing there. Same after WWII, and true for a long time after. No longer. It's still scrub and puckerbush to the East, where training aviators make their normal approach. But that's the only safe angle in - from the desert and the mountains.

From the sea side, though, how many hundreds of thousands of people now live between that airstrip and the ocean?

I can't believe they routed this plane - even (or perhaps especially) in an emergency - over all those homes.

 

I wish I knew the answer, jg. But here's part of the problem I was getting at:

Dammit, man, you're the one who chose to move next to MIRAMAR! What'd you expect? :

<a href="http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2008/12/09/military/z031c4387e14f8c6a8825751a005a56b8.txt">This NCT story</a> has a breakout box listing the details of at least 16 crashes near Miramar since 1999. (Plus two more from when the Navy operated the base before 1996.) Wow.

 

Since there is nothing but homes between the water and the base, how exactly would you route it back from a training mission over the ocean?

And the fuckwit in the quote Buck captured needs to shut the fuck up. Did you not notice the huge ass airbase down the street when you moved in? Fucking idiot.

 

In addition to the grandmother, mother and the one child who died, they are now combing the wreckage for a 15 month old child who is "missing"......makes me sick to my stomach.

 

Just saw an AP news alert saying a fourth person has been confirmed dead.