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Plane Crashes at Colorado Air Force Base
Thursday, June 30, 2005

DENVER — A Navy jet rolled into the side of a building at Buckley Air Force Base (search) during a refueling stop Thursday, but the pilot was not injured, the military said.

The F/A-18C Hornet (search) was returning to its home base at Oceana, Va., from a training detachment in Fallon, Nev., Navy spokesman Mike Maus said.

The extent of the damage was not immediately known and the cause of the incident was under investigation, Maus said. The pilot's name was not released.

Maus said the plane, one of three returning to Oceana from Fallon, was assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 106 (search).

Buckley, in the east Denver suburb of Aurora, houses a number of F-16 jets of the Colorado Air National Guard's 140th Wing, but apparently none were involved in Thursday's mishap.

Officials at Buckley did not immediately return phone calls.

On Tuesday, a National Guard pilot from Buckley suffered bruises and a sprained ankle when he ejected from his F-16 during an emergency landing at Lamar Municipal Airport about 150 miles southeast of Denver.

The unarmed F-16 was on a routine training mission when a warning light indicated a fire in the tail section. That crash was under investigation.

That remonds me of the day we towed one into the building at the washrack on Oceana.

By this time tomorrow I shall have gained either a pearage or Westminster Abbey........Nelson

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<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>... warning light indicated a fire in the tail section. <hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote> That means the engine is still operating.<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>That remonds me of the day we towed one into the building at the washrack on Oceana.<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote> And? And...?

"Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...." - Carl Zwanzig

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He was the son of a Philipino diplomat and his name was Herbert Yabbis Beautista. He was driving that tug so fast that I thought the F14 was going to take off while attached to the towbar. Well one thing led to another and the jet didnt corner down low at such high speeds as it did at altitude. The tow bar came off the jet and there it went just like it had a mind of its own, tracking right into that old shed at the end of the hangar. It was funny. I laughed. Skipper didnt though.

By this time tomorrow I shall have gained either a pearage or Westminster Abbey........Nelson

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YGBSM !

As only the son of a diplomat, I hope he wasn't immune from "pursecution"!<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=newicons/anim_lol.gif border=0 align=middle>

"Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...." - Carl Zwanzig

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\"Those who hammer their guns into plows
will plow for those who do not.\"
- Thomas Jefferson