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Old 23rd February 2009 | 20:51
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Fort Walton didn't make sense to me, as that airport is co-located with Eglin AFB, has precision radar and isn't particularly close to the water... about a mile from the water to the threshold IIRC.
Pensacola was where it occurred... which is also about a mile from the water to the threshold of Rwy 25... they were 1,000' lower than they thought they were, evidently. Three drownings... airplane sunk in 12 feet of water. The field is about 100' MSL and there are bluffs of about that height coming out of the bay... they're lucky the aircraft wasn't a little higher or the airport a bit farther inland or they would have been a smoking hole.
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