Thunderbirds' F-16 Crash in Dayton

"user314" (user314) 06/23/2017 at 13:54 • Filed to: Thunderbird, dayton, Falcon, Crash

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The !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! happened shortly before 12:30 pm at the Dayton International Airport where aircraft and crews are practicing for the Vectren Dayton Air Show.

Montgomery County dispatchers tell 2 NEWS a plane has run off the end of the runway and is now upside down.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base sent a crash team and heavy rescue crew to the scene.

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There are reports of possible entrapment. The injured pilot is to go with CareFlight crew to the hospital, according to emergency scanner traffic.

random001 > user314 06/23/2017 at 13:56

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Oh crap!

McMike > user314 06/23/2017 at 14:10

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I’m watching everyone freak out on twitter right now because news outlets are saying shit like “Fighter Jet Accident!!” “Thunderbird Crash!!!”

It got flipped over on its roof while taxiing.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > McMike 06/23/2017 at 14:20

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I didn’t know Raph was even in the Thunderbirds, man.

McMike > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/23/2017 at 14:24

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LOL #ORLOVED

shop-teacher > user314 06/23/2017 at 14:31

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Hope the pilot is ok!

itschrome > user314 06/23/2017 at 14:35

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“There are reports of possible entrapment”

huh? 

McMike > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/23/2017 at 14:35

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McMike > itschrome 06/23/2017 at 14:36

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Occupants were still in their seats. I’m guessing the canopy woudn’t open.

itschrome > McMike 06/23/2017 at 14:40

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OH, ok.. duh..

sorry I thought some one from the DEA was trying to get the pilot to like smuggle drugs and the plane was over was loaded uneven and caused it to tip and now they were trying to lock him up...

wrong entrapment.. didn’t think just trapped..

McMike > itschrome 06/23/2017 at 14:42

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LOL, the runway tricked them into flipping over. They’re all in it together, I tell you.

Jcarr > itschrome 06/23/2017 at 15:08

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It was on autopilot and the driver was watching this:

Seriously, Kinja. I guess it’s post two images, or post nothing.

McMike > user314 06/23/2017 at 15:09

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user314 > McMike 06/23/2017 at 15:10

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“Press ‘X’ to flip.”

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > McMike 06/23/2017 at 15:12

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You win

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > McMike 06/23/2017 at 15:13

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I have an Orloved beetle shirt

itschrome > Jcarr 06/23/2017 at 15:14

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haha.. was Catherin Zeta Jones going under the lasers when it happened? probably

user314 > user314 06/23/2017 at 15:22

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UPDATE @ 2:05 p.m.

Ricardo von Puttkammer, chief correspondent for Aviation Photojournal, was out in the air field when he witnessed the two-seat Thunderbird taxi on the runway toward the staging area.

“It was raining, and I was taking pictures of some airplanes,” he said. “The plane was taxing and it flipped. Right away the fire department personnel was running toward the accident.”

von Puttkammer said volunteer event staff and media were immediately taken back to the Dayton Airport Expo Center.

whoarder is tellurium > user314 06/23/2017 at 16:59

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They dont call em Lawndarts for nothin.

Also, it seems quite easy to tip over an F-16.. just a little jetblast on that short wheelbase tricycle gear and high CG.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > user314 06/23/2017 at 17:45

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Press ctrl-t for tiller.

RallyWrench > user314 06/23/2017 at 19:37

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Bad week for F-16s.

bhtooefr > user314 06/23/2017 at 22:46

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