Originally Posted by
Hydro Junkie
Franklin got lucky. More than one plane based at Whidbey Island has crashed over that training route. I know of a couple that crashed in the bombing range outside of Boardman OR as well, all due to low level flights. Were they pilot error, equipment failure or bird strikes? That's one we probably will never hear the answer to.
hmm......multiple crashes of the same or similar types or aircraft, all flown by the military pilots, all specially certified by the same type of organizations. It's a design failure, a manufacturing failure, a pilot failure, or an training/inspection failure. What it's not is a coincidence.
