Our Hearts Go Out to One of Our Fallen Brethren...
Details are still coming in, but here is what is being reported currently,
From (CNN) --
A jet flying in formation with the U.S. Navy Blue Angels precision flying team crashed into a Beaufort, South Carolina, neighborhood, causing an "enormous fireball" during an air show, authorities said.
The Navy aviator was killed Beaufort County Coroner Curt Copeland said. The F/A-18's pilot is the only known fatality.
Fred Yelinek told CNN he saw the crash occur about a mile from Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, which was holding the two-day show. He said the jet came down about 100 yards from him.
Yelinek said the jet struck a stand of pine trees, and pieces of the plane hit homes, but he didn't see any catch fire. The pieces were "as big as a hand but no larger," he said.
Pieces of a tree and the plane crashed into the home of a neighbor, Yelinek said, but she was uninjured. Pieces also hit other houses and smashed car windshields, he said.
"Most people were very shaken but unhurt," the witness said.
And from the Birmingham News comes these images...
The Navy Blue Angels perform the last maneuver
before Blue Angel No. 6
(plane just above center) crashed during an air show at Marine
Corps
Air Station Beaufort in Beaufort, S.C., Saturday, April 21, 2007. Blue
Angel No. 6, one of two solo pilots crashed two minutes after this
picture was made about four miles west of the base as the team was
setting up for its final maneuver.
More to follow as it becomes Available...
I was at the air show tha t took LCDR. Kevin davis. To watch these men test the fabric of danger was amazing. When we heard that LCDR> Kevin Davis had crashed the first thought in my mind was I hope the pilot is okay. When we heard that he had died All I could think was how sad..When we found out he went down with his plane to save the lives of our fellow neighbors I cried cause I knew from that point on I was in the presents of a hero. God Speed...I will never forget you enen though I never knew you. You wil always be in my heart
Posted by: Nona Busick | April 29, 2007 at 16:53