There has been at least one fatality in the crash of a U.S. Navy Blue Angels F/A-18 jet at an air show in South Carolina, the Beaufort County coroner says.
Man I hate hearing that.The Blue Angels were just in Corpus last week.We shot lots of video this year.I've attended many of their air shows in the past.According to my air show program from last weeks air show ,the # 6 pilot is Lcdr. Kevin Davis.He was in his second year with the team.I haven't heard confirmation that he was the #6 pilot in this particular crash though.
Yea, be careful OB, as they just said it was the "6th" aircraft. That doesn't necessarily mean that the airplane that went down had the number 6 on the tail. The media doesn't know much about the Blues, although the two soloists are number 5 and 6.
In the Spring of 1954 the Blue Angels were flying F7U Cutlasses. It was a very beautiful, but terrible airplane that even the History Channel won't admit ever existed.
During the Navy Relief carnival one of them crashed into a school building at NATTC Memphis (really in Millington, TN). It killed a couple of CPO Instructors. The building had been emptied of about 400 student sailors a few minutes before.
It missed this student sailor by about 100'. Wet my dress blues.
Yea I heard that as well.His death hits close to home for several reasons.NAS Corpus was once home base for the Angels and a very popular annual event.Also the lead solo pilot #5 Blue Angel,Lcdr. John Allison is a semi recent graduate of Flour Bluff High here in Corpus.All those guys are the cream of the crop and the pride of the USN and Marine Corp.If I can be thankful for anything it's that it did not happen here last week.Otherwise my best wishes go out to Lcdr.Davis' friends and family.
