Blue Angels grounding

[Nonotagain]

I'm surprised that no one has posted this, so here goes.

Blues cancel another air show | Pensacola News Journal | pnj.com

Local and national news reported that the aircraft came within 133 feet of the ground when 500 feet were the minimums allowed.

Also linked is a youtube video which shows the maneuver which caused the grounding.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXjhuo8Ene4[/media]

I was supposed to be at the Millville NJ airshow this weekend with one of the show sponsors, but decided that without the Angels, it wasn't going to be the same.

 

[Ripcord01]

They cancelled the Annapolic show as well. Grounded due some flying manuevers that were sour. Better safe than sorry.. I have met a few of them and they are a good group of guys. When I was sworn in At our Ceremony a few of them were in attendance and on the field with us. Pretty cool feeling it was..

 

[ZackRidesRed]

That is too bad, I could not imagine the stress involved with trying to thread the needle in on of these machines.

 

[wreckerman893]

They are most likely on a "Safety Standown"......SOP after a high visibility incident.

 

[hoop]

The airport is elevated about 200' on a small plateau.
The commander must have been flying by sight only not altimeter.
Blue Angles were great....but the whole show was put together in 5 weeks. Show leaders chose "Remote parking", about 200 people were treated with heat related problems.....they even used fire water cannons to try and cool people down.
Logistical Night Mare.

 

[flyxpl]

That was scary close . You can tell by the way they broke away that the pilots were concerned about saving their butts and **** with the routine . The heat also may have affected the prformance of the aircraft making the loop on the down side a little larger than intended .

 

[steelypip]

The airport is elevated about 200' on a small plateau.
The commander must have been flying by sight only not altimeter.
Blue Angles were great....but the whole show was put together in 5 weeks. Show leaders chose "Remote parking", about 200 people were treated with heat related problems.....they even used fire water cannons to try and cool people down.
Logistical Night Mare.

^^That explains why I, all the way up (ha) in Charlottesville didn't hear about this show until the stand-down and resignation fallout. Talk about lousy publicity!

I would happily have driven down 29 to the show if I had known it existed. Oh well. Hopefully they'll do it right next year.

 

[EMD567]

Better a stand down and training, then following your leader into the ground like the Thunderbirds.

 

[exbrown]

Just glad that they are all OK.

I have seen them several times, and they are my favorite of the precision flying groups. They will get it together and be back wowing people soon.

I hate that they are canceling shows, but finding out what happened and fixing it is of the utmost importance.

 

[WarrenD]

As of a few days ago, their commander has been replaced with last years and they have begun training again. It is hoped that they will only miss 3 scheduled shows.

 

[Goose2448]

KLYH field is 936' MSL so they should have been no lower than 1436' MSL. The altitude they were at was getting close to round out height for landing. I know KLYH pretty well, I am a Liberty University School of Aeronautics student. The show was put on by LUSOA, and it was the first time the Blue Angles had been there since the late 80's. I am sure they will recover just fine like they have after past worse incidents.