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Old 14th Feb 2010, 17:47
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or set fire to it.
We seized a MU-2 when I was with the Marshal Service and place it in service. After a campaign by myself and two other pilots that had flown MU-2s to get rid of the damn thing before it crashed it was returned to the GSA.

For some reason, only known to them, the US Navy picked up the MU-2. The MU-2 was based at Edwards AFB. Sure enough about two months it did crash*. Very fortunately all on board escaped with minor injury. Then guess what happened to the MU-2?

They made a target out of it and sure enough it did end up being destroyed by fire.




* The Navy never told us what caused the accident.
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