F/A-18 crash kills 3 in San Diego

[unhappycamper]

Fire rages in the University City area of San Diego on Dec. 8 after an F/A-18 crashed into a neighborhood on approach to Marine Corps Air Station Mirimar.


F/A-18 crash kills 3 in San Diego
Staff and wire reports
Posted : Monday Dec 8, 2008 22:11:27 EST

SAN DIEGO — The pilot of the F/A-18D that crashed into several San Diego homes was in stable condition at San Diego Naval Medical Center, a Marine Corps official said Monday afternoon. Three people on the ground were killed in the crash and ensuing blaze, San Diego officials said.

The pilot of the Hornet, who ejected before the crash, was a Marine Corps aviator, said Maj. Jay Delarosa, a spokesman for 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing.

The pilot, who was assigned to Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 101, had taken off from the Navy’s aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, which is conducting carrier qualifications off the Southern California coast, Delarosa said. The F/A-18 was preparing to land at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station in San Diego when the jet plunged into a suburban neighborhood in University City, an area of single-family homes that sits across Interstate 805 from the west end of the air station’s flight line.

The plane crashed around noon Monday, said Ian Gregor, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman.

Three people were killed in a house where two children, a mother and a grandmother were believed to be inside at the time of the crash, but fire officials did not immediately know who died. Another person remained missing.


Rest of article at: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/12/navy_f18_crash_120808/%2e

[frylock]

1. no mention of the engine failure over the pacific..

no mention of the pilot being instructed to limp the aircraft to Miramar. Tom Sawyer would be proud.