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by powerboatr
Tue Mar 30, 2021 1:41 pm
Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
Topic: Contact shot, blast damage?
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Re: Contact shot, blast damage?

JustSomeOldGuy wrote: Mon Mar 29, 2021 11:10 pm Lost power because they were out of fuel?
nope, flew into a stand of trees, that removed the wings and the fuselage kept going into the ground. it was gruesome ,


at least thats what the investigators told me, they were puzzled as to why or how they got disoriented and tried to knock the top off a hill. this drove the intense mechanical inspection to make sure it was pilot/s error.


a few years later i lost a dear friend when a trainee pilot flew into his plane while training in key west. we had closed casket because he was in pieces
by powerboatr
Mon Mar 29, 2021 9:25 pm
Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
Topic: Contact shot, blast damage?
Replies: 35
Views: 19480

Re: Contact shot, blast damage?

off topic
but i have, all the gross stories beat.

i was stationed at pensacola in a department that happened to also have a large hangar.

they also teach flight training in pcola, and one of the trainers crashed into a "hill" and killed both pilots (student and training pilot). Well the navy thought it would be great to bring the Plane and its human parts to our hangar, vice the flight training squadron about 30 miles away. We had to post watch on said plane until the investigators convened, 24/7 in very close proximity.
mind you the small amount of pieces they could recognize as parts of the human body were removed at crash sight (4 legs one set was missing its feet, one torso, arms minus hands), the rest were strewn throughout the small plane. it was freaking gross, brains, skins, hair, i think an eyeball, blood, blood, blood, more brains and skull were everywhere the windshield, the instrument panel the back of front seat, the propeller . we had to post watch around this plane for weeks. IN the summer and it stank, made flies and oozed juices all over the floor. even the investigators got sick. once they completed and removed the plane to be destroyed it took use weeks to get all the FLIES out and the smell vacated. SO now nothing turns me inside out, except brains.

it was weird the plane didnt burn, it just ran into the earth

no blast damage, just sudden stop damage

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