Questions linger in deadly F/A-18 crash
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 8:05 pm
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Questions linger in deadly F/A-18 crash
By Elliot Spagat and Michael R. Blood - The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Dec 23, 2008 18:50:00 EST
LOS ANGELES — Two weeks after a Marine Corps plane slammed into a San Diego residential area, killing four people, questions have arisen about the decision to direct the hobbled fighter over homes to an inland airfield when a nearby base offered a route across open water.
The cause of the fiery Dec. 8 crash is still being investigated. Military officials have depicted a chain of events in which first one engine failed on the F/A18D Hornet — and then the second quit while the pilot was attempting to reach a landing spot.
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