Comments on: Breaking News — Super Hornets Collide over Gulf (Updated)

By: Solomon

Solomon — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:53:59 +0000

DC2,
Hey you may be right but I do remember reading that the Navy was doing experiments on how best to use that fancy new AESA of theirs. Stuff like using F models to illuminate and direct the E models so they’d remain undetected and all that jazz…so I wouldn’t be too surprised to see mixed aircraft operating together. But on this subject I’m pure spectator and have no experience so once again you all may be right and I might be the idiot in the corner.

By: Nadnerbus

Nadnerbus — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:46:02 +0000

Whatever the cause, it is great to see the crews made it out in one piece. I’d rather pay for a new jet than a lost life or three. Equipment is expendable, people aren’t, even if they mess up. Like the previous poster said, its the cost of business in carrier aviation, and I’m just really happy that that cost didn’t involve the lives of any of our men and women.

By: Lakelad

Lakelad — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:48:33 +0000

Visuals might have been tricky. 9PM local with no moon.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:45:49 +0000

Those jets should have been busy bombing them speed boats harassing our ships and maybe they wouldn’t have crashed into each other. Considering they were saying that they were going to blow up the ships, dropping unknown objects in the ships path, and so on, I bet it took every nerve of the Captain not to fire on them.
Glad the pilots are safe and it will be interesting to see exactly what happened.

By: ELP

ELP — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:12:39 +0000

Cost of doing business in carrier aviation. Crews are safe which is great.

By: EM2(SS)

EM2(SS) — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:33:55 +0000

I’m just glad the crew made it out and were recovered OK. And like DC2 and Doc, I figured it was a refuelling incident.
This stuff’s dangerous all the time, even if you don’t have speedboats playing games with the surface ships.

By: Solomon

Solomon — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:11:10 +0000

not refueling, I bet it was just real “close” formation flying…can’t wait to get the incident report…

By: doc75

doc75 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:28:07 +0000

I thought the same thing, DC2.

By: DC2 Jennings

DC2 Jennings — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:40:34 +0000

Sounds like it might have been an air to air refueling incident to me.
DC2