F/A-18D Fatal Crash Near San Diego, 12/8

AVweb's Glenn Pew reports same-day on the F/A-18D Hornet military jet crashed about 9000 feet shy of Runway 06L at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Miramar, in a residential neighborhood near San Diego, California, Monday December 8, 2008 at approximately 11:59 a.m. local time. Published by Glenn Pew http://www.glennpew.com for AVweb http://www.avweb.com the day of the crash with the information available at that time.

This video includes images from Google Maps and Google Earth. F18 Crash San Diego.

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[drexlerf]

@tunenas and they were my friend's uncle's family

[ApolloWasReal]

@evoraptor Actually, had the pilot done all he could to protect civilians he would have landed at North Island NAS, which would have avoided flying over any houses at all; North Island is right on the ocean.

[idieasy]

@ASIANPRIDE50 he was flying on one engine at the time and then when we was flying over the homes his other engine failed. there is no way for you to control a 36000 lbs f/a-18d with no power. yes it was a bad day. but every1 that lives near MCAS miramar know this can happen.

[51iohC]

our tax is going to retarded planes that crashes into ppls houses

[lazzyJames]

@dreadelite I am not familiar with Cali, but I would almost bet my bottom dollar that the airfield was there first. Just like VA, beach... The air field was there for years and all of a sudden you have a suburb pop up and people complaining. Why build there in the first place if you know the approach is there?

[ASIANPRIDE50]

Ejecting instead of trying to regain control, that's just smart.

[CookehsRuleD00d]

I saw the plane go down and the guy eject. It was so loud, like a garage track dumping stuff and a jet really close flying. Crazy shit, I live 30 seconds WALKING distance. 30 damn seconds.

[mancoreta87]

yes why?

[lmm616]

my whole middle school saw it it was scary just like a mile away and im just 12

[ssit72]

Some chemtrail less.... ; )))))