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Subject: Let's be careful up there

Author:
Boyd Percy

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Date Posted: 22:47:49 07/07/15 Tue

I just read where a F-16 fighter jet crashed into a Cessna 150 over South Carolina. Tragically, the two people on board the Cessna were killed. The jet pilot was able to eject but his plane crash landed. The F-16 weighs 10 tons while the Cessna tips the scales at 1500 pounds.

The 150 is the model of airplane that JennLynn Swift first owned and flew in "Magic Carpet".

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[> Subject: Re: Let's be careful up there

Author:
Greg B.
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Date Posted: 18:51:36 07/08/15 Wed

There was a novel (Airport maybe?) where part of the plot involved an air traffic controller's PTSD, caused by him being on duty when an Air National Guard pilot doing unauthorized acrobatics hit a small private plane. Everyone on board the private plane were killed, while the jet jockey punched out and survived. I was probably a teenager when I read it, so I may have some of the details wrong. Even so, it sounds like the same situation.

>I just read where a F-16 fighter jet crashed into a
>Cessna 150 over South Carolina. Tragically, the two
>people on board the Cessna were killed. The jet pilot
>was able to eject but his plane crash landed. The F-16
>weighs 10 tons while the Cessna tips the scales at
>1500 pounds.
>
>The 150 is the model of airplane that JennLynn Swift
>first owned and flew in "Magic Carpet".