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This was mentioned in Day Around the Bay, but it's so Inside Edition-y hot right now, we felt compelled to capture some of its momentum and give it its own post. Anyway, the above headline comes courtesy of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. "That's the headline we'd be reading," says SFBG Editor Tim Redmond, "if one of the Navy stunt pilots had the same misfortune as the FA/18 pilot just did in San Diego." He goes on to point that this is something to think about come next year's Fleet Week air acrobatics. "If the supervisors decided not to invite the Navy precision flying team, they wouldn't come." Which: True. The tightness of those white Navy pants are exhilarating enough; however, others are livid that the crash is being used like this. But what say you?
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Do we expect any less coming from the SFBG? I'm no fan of the Blue Angels (because I like being able to hear) but this is typical what-if bullsh*t with ulterior motives.
You know what also might happen? One of the planes from any of the regional airports might have some type of mechanical failure and crash into the city. So should we get rid of air travel to and from the bay area?
I think it would be tough for a F-18 crash to kill "thousands," even if it crashed right into the middle of a totally crowded Marina Green. Hundreds, maybe, but to kill thousands it would have to spend a few minutes shooting missles at the buildings along the waterfront.
Not likely, with the new administration.
Can we put a nail on the coffin of fear mongering when George W. Bush exits the White House please?
in the coffin ... whatever ... you get my point :)
The comments thread over at sfbg is priceless.
I'm glad you explained this... I saw the link in Day Around The Bay, but my firm blocks SFBG as "pornography." SF Weekly too. Seriously!
Nuh,uh! Um, what if maybe like the crash happened during one of the practice days, and it crashed into a building, and somehow brought it down, and it was lunch hour, see, and instead of running, everyone was having 9/11 flashbacks and froze in place... then it like so totally could kill thousands!
Then you'd wish you'd listened to the Bay Guardian!
"Blue Angel kills thousands in SF crash" - Still it's so totally worth it.
"Tim Remond likes to molest children and gerbils....this is the headline we might be reading if Redmond ever pulled his head out of his ass and left the little world he lives in."
In San Francisco, you kill air show.
In Russia, air show kill you!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sknyliv_airshow_disaster
Or Ukraine, whichever.
Didn't realize that houses could be less than one runway's length from such an active airbase.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=cather+avenue++san+diego+ca&sll=32.857239,-117.148933&sspn=0.114927,0.187454&ie=UTF8&ll=32.859979,-117.194595&spn=0.114924,0.187454&t=h&z=13&g=cather+avenue++san+diego+ca&iwloc=addr
It seems funny that the Navy would put their Air Station smack in the middle of all those houses.
http://www.flightsim.com/review/mega04/miramar-sd-big.jpg
Blue Angels pilots are experts in their fields. The guy in SD was on a training run. The likelihood of a Blue Angel pilot plunging his aircraft into a crowd and killing thousands is nil. The Bay Guardian is ignoring these simple facts because they're more interested in pushing their stupid left over 1970's agenda than in telling the truth.
My favorite part is when Tim gets on the comments and insults everyone for disagreeing with his knee-jerk, alarmist pseudoscience. What a steaming pile this guy's post is.
I'm waiting for Brugmann to get on and blame the whole thing in PG&E. When that gets simply ignored finally sue the SF Weekly.
Those houses weren't there when the military built the runway in 1936.
The airbase (Former Top Gun school) has been there long before the houses. Its actually a much bigger statement on land use and urban encroachment than anything to do with aviation. I feel for the family.
Are all of you too young to remember when the USS Missouri spun out of control during Fleet Week, demolishing the Embarcadero freeway and killing thousands on its way up Haight street before being stopped by the heroic efforts of Bruno of Zam-Zam, moments before it would have killed thousands more in the baby shower being held at Murio's Sport's Lounge? And how all of SF watched this passively, half believing it was Survival Research Laboratories and the other half thinking it was part of Critical Mass?
@montrealnow - nicely done!
I doubt there's actually much risk, but anything that will get rid of those stupid planes buzzing the city is good in my book.
One of these toys crashed into my neighborhood in 1968 in Tucson Arizona and killed a bunch of people. The airforce base is still there and going strong. I am stunned that people think watching these death machines are entertainment. But it's like baseball, even if you don't like it, you gotta pay.
Perhaps Redmond can get a brand spanking new free city-subsidized crib at the new Academy of Sciences... with the rest of the living fossils...
How about "millions killed in war based on half-truths and faulty intelligence?"
That's the headline we'd all be reading if we elect this George W Bush fellow come November 1999.
Xenu, be fair: hundreds of thousands, max! ...maybe ONE million.
I miss Bruno. He was my hero and role model.