I wanted to inform everyone who has been calling and writing that NO my husband was not involved in yesterdays Crash here at Sheppard AFB. But he does know one of the pilots (a fellow instructor and Major) (His name isn't being released in the news yet.) He was training a new student and they were doing " Touch and Gos" when it happened early yesterday in the same plane my husband flies the T-38C. (It happened around 8 am)
We are very sad about the two men and our hearts go out to their families. One pilot is married with children and the other was a new student. I cant say anything else until the families are all notified. This is indeed very tragic.
My husband has been flying here for almost 14 years and knows the dangers they face with these students and jets every day. I know when he goes to work that he might not come back home. I learned this lesson the first 2 years we were married and living in Japan. He was flying a Jet over the Ocean off the Japan coast in an exercise with the US Navy. It was a midair collision. It really shook me and taught me that this is really very dangerous.
We are very sad about the two men and our hearts go out to their families. One pilot is married with children and the other was a new student. I cant say anything else until the families are all notified. This is indeed very tragic.
My husband has been flying here for almost 14 years and knows the dangers they face with these students and jets every day. I know when he goes to work that he might not come back home. I learned this lesson the first 2 years we were married and living in Japan. He was flying a Jet over the Ocean off the Japan coast in an exercise with the US Navy. It was a midair collision. It really shook me and taught me that this is really very dangerous.
These Pilots are Super Smart and Super Brave, but the fact is that things can and do happen.
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specially while training young new students and the students can make mistakes, or the plane engines can malfunction, there are lots of things that can wrong. Just a few years ago, my husband hit a flock of big birds at another Texas Base and it blew a huge hole in the canopy of the plane narrowly missing his head!) He safely landed THANK GOD. Just a lot can go wrong when you are flying a Jet that fast.
Just always remember: The price we pay for our freedom is NOT FREE.
Our prayers and thoughts go out to their families.
(PS Torin Halsey, a photographer I know, took the images of the remains of the plane on todays front page Times Record News.)
http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/2008/may/01/t-38c-sheppard-air-force-base-crashes
Just always remember: The price we pay for our freedom is NOT FREE.
Our prayers and thoughts go out to their families.
(PS Torin Halsey, a photographer I know, took the images of the remains of the plane on todays front page Times Record News.)
http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/2008/may/01/t-38c-sheppard-air-force-base-crashes
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