By: Wyvernfan - 20th November 2015 at 18:43
Nevertheless it’s an interesting story and also pleasing to see that at least part of the ‘six’ will hopefully be preserved to tell its story.
Rob
By: Sabrejet - 20th November 2015 at 18:19
Considering it’s in the usually better informed Air and Space (indeed a regular poster here is one of their frequent contributors) it is a bit disappointing.
Yes, I have to say I was a bit surprised too.
By: J Boyle - 20th November 2015 at 17:46
Considering it’s in the usually better informed Air and Space (indeed a regular poster here is one of their frequent contributors) it is a bit disappointing.
By: Sabrejet - 20th November 2015 at 14:42
Typical ill-researched BS from someone who likes to use ‘classified’ but doesn’t understand its meaning. It’s likely that full mishap files on this one are available, but it’s easier to say, “It’s classified” (which means nothing anyway), than to admit they couldn’t be bothered to look.
“What about the strange red X [sprayed on the wreckage]?”. Not strange at all, but why let the mundane get in the way of a good yarn?
Still, an interesting story to be researched by someone who’d like to put some effort in!
By: J Boyle - 20th November 2015 at 14:09
The dese forests of the area hold the remains of many aircraft.
In the late 70s a forest ranger came across the skeletal remains of a Air National Guard interceptor (F-94 IIRC, or F-89) RIO who ejected from a jet in the 50s and was killed when his parachute didn’t open. For many years, he USAF aircrew survival school (a 21 day–at the time I attended–course conducted from Washington’s Fairchild Air Force Base with field training in the Selkirk mountains not far from the Canadian border) had a display of his well preserved survival kit
And just 5 (or so ) years ago, a private L-39 took off from Boeing Field enroute to Boise. A few minutes after takeoff it disappeared from radar. It was found months later in the forest, just a few miles north of the major area motorway.
As far as the F-106 crash, being a mass market magazine it has to bring up the nuclear issue, but I doubt if there was a nuke Falcon on board. While it may not have been mentioned at the time in the media, it would have been accounted for in the published “Broken Arrow” listing of mishaps which is often brought up here….most recently a month ago in the general discussion forum where the US was chided by a member here for being so careless. Also, IIRC, when the armed alert jets are scrambled, two would go. The article doesn’t mention another aircraft.
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November 20, 2015 at 12:54 pm