PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - FedEx Caravan crash
View Single Post
Old 21st April 2004 | 04:41
  #6 (permalink)  
peterbuckstolemymeds
 
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 35
Likes: 0
From: USofA
There was a midair off the coast of Florida back in the 80s, if memory serves, where a Beechey heading north from one of the caribbean islands was intercepted by a couple of F4s.

I think the guy was flying VFR in IFR without an activated flightplan or some such... anyway, one of the militaries got a bit too close and took the tail and canopy out a la boiled egg with its wing.

Nevertheless, the F4 got home safely with just a few scrapes while the Beechey was never seen or heard from again (passengers' personal effects and a couple of lifejackets aside).

Point being, sometimes one aircraft gets to go home after a midair (usually the bigger boy!) but its not often that both do.

Interesting case. Someone, somewhere knows what the red transfer material is...

peterbuckstolemymeds is offline