Originally Posted by
Alber Ratman
I was out at Basrah when the Hermes was flown into the terminal building. It was a very foggy morning. I did hear the operator was asked by Air tragic if he wished to be talked down onto the runway. He did not. I saw the wreckage later in the day. Very funny!
The crash at Boscombe was also a very foggy day and I heard (but never saw) the Watchkeeper that crashed from my office in Bldg 801. May be someone needs to tell the Army that relying on lasers for height finding should rule out ops when the cloud is on the deck.