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re: Two Navy fighter jets collide at an air show in Idaho. All four aviators ejected.
Posted on 5/17/26 at 3:00 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
Posted on 5/17/26 at 3:00 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
Rejected, ejected, and dejected
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Posted on 5/17/26 at 3:03 pm to JoeyP239
“NASCAR is only worth watching for the crashes “
My roommate got me to go with him to the Riverside 500 stock car race when I was stationed in California.
He was totally captivated the whole frickin 4 hours,I was bored out of my mind.
Couldn’t tell who was winning,red car might be ahead of the blue car when they went by but the blue car might actually be ahead of the red car by several laps.
I kept hoping for a good crash.
(Am I retarded ?)
My roommate got me to go with him to the Riverside 500 stock car race when I was stationed in California.
He was totally captivated the whole frickin 4 hours,I was bored out of my mind.
Couldn’t tell who was winning,red car might be ahead of the blue car when they went by but the blue car might actually be ahead of the red car by several laps.
I kept hoping for a good crash.
(Am I retarded ?)
Posted on 5/17/26 at 3:10 pm to jasonbr1975
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Thank God they were able to eject. Can we stop wasting millions of dollars on air shows?
Midairs don’t just happen at airshows. And time in the cockpit is still valuable to the pilots and crews.
Obviously you don’t want any kinds of mishaps but flying jets is inherently dangerous. As long as jets fly, there will be crashes no matter what they’re doing.
Posted on 5/17/26 at 3:11 pm to OysterPoBoy
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Per the rules they’ll have to miss the first half of the next air show.
Their careers are over. They’ll be sent to low level supervisory positions in maintenance, administration, etc.
I served under a Lt. DO at one time that had been yanked from a flying billet. He was a P-3 guy and he forgot to extend his landing gear. Belly skid. So he was sent to carriers in various low level division officer jobs. The men called him “Belly Up” behind his back. It was clear he had no future in the Navy so when his obligation was up he went back to civilian life.
Posted on 5/17/26 at 3:22 pm to gmac8604
I regret that I have only one downvote to give for your post.
Posted on 5/17/26 at 3:25 pm to DesScorp
Israeli trained rape planes. Always carry pilots, even the buddy system can fail.
Posted on 5/17/26 at 3:28 pm to DesScorp
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I served under a Lt. DO at one time that had been yanked from a flying billet. He was a P-3 guy and he forgot to extend his landing gear.
Yeah…that sounds like buffoonery. That dude absolutely should never fly again. I’m almost certain there’s a whole “extend gear/check lights” mental process that happens. Doesn’t seem like something you’d “just forget” :/
In this case, and this is a layman hot take, it looks like the jet coming in from the top is a wingman (2) trying to rejoin on lead (1). If that’s what happened, 1 likely didn’t do anything wrong here.
Posted on 5/17/26 at 3:29 pm to AlonsoWDC
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It distracts the mouthbreathers.
Says the racist fig.
Posted on 5/17/26 at 3:33 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
The really got tangled up! Glad the aviators got out. I hope they are ok.
Posted on 5/17/26 at 3:35 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
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This post was edited on 5/17/26 at 3:40 pm
Posted on 5/17/26 at 3:36 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
How do these jets not have, essentially, collision avoidance like your average SUV?
Posted on 5/17/26 at 3:39 pm to Chucktown_Badger
It's an air show.
Posted on 5/17/26 at 3:40 pm to Centinel
Blue Angels ain't got nothing of that show.
Posted on 5/17/26 at 3:43 pm to tigeryat
AP says all pilots are safe
It is amazing that parts of those chutes didn’t get tangled with the planes.
It is amazing that parts of those chutes didn’t get tangled with the planes.
Posted on 5/17/26 at 3:58 pm to Centinel
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It's an air show.
I’m aware. My question stands.
Posted on 5/17/26 at 4:07 pm to Chucktown_Badger
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My question stands.
They try to get as close as possible to one another to pull off cool maneuvers.
No one would ever fly that close to another plane under normal circumstances.
Posted on 5/17/26 at 4:14 pm to Chucktown_Badger
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I’m aware. My question stands.
The answer of
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It's an air show.
Might be a little flippant but I think it’s correct. “Fast and close” is what you do when you’re flying in formation in an air show.
If they had a collision avoidance system that worked the way it works in cars, it would just be going off nonstop for the entire demo.
Posted on 5/17/26 at 4:15 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
I took 2.5 years of Navy ROTC at the Citadel. One of my instructors was a Naval Aviator. I still remember him saying, "The proper protocol for eject from a jet is to say, "Eject, Eject, Eject three times and reach up and pull the ejection handles. But if it ever happens to me, as soon as I hear E.... I'm gone." 
Posted on 5/17/26 at 4:48 pm to DesScorp
shite happens man. I hope all 4 are back on flight duty soon
Posted on 5/17/26 at 4:54 pm to billjamin
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Trying to pull off the dragon fly mating trick
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