{"id":12713,"date":"2011-08-23T02:02:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T07:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=12713"},"modified":"2011-08-23T02:02:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T07:02:47","slug":"report-fa-18s-collided-after-wrong-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/23\/report-fa-18s-collided-after-wrong-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: F\/A-18s Collided After Wrong Turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <em>Military Times<\/em>, the midair collision of two F\/A-18s <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/18\/f-18s-collide-in-midair-pilots-safe\/\">from Naval Air Station Fallon last year<\/a> was the result of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2011\/08\/navy-wrong-turn-led-to-hornet-collision-082111w\/\">very simple pilot error<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Shortly after takeoff, they moved into a &#8220;wall formation&#8221; with the Super Hornets four abreast, putting 1.2 nautical miles between the two planes that eventually would collide. The lieutenant commander was flying one of the two inside planes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;90-right, go,&#8221; the lieutenant commander announced, signaling everyone to turn.<\/p>\n<p>While the three other planes turned right, for some reason the lieutenant commander turned left. <!--more-->About 11 seconds later, the side of his plane collided with the lieutenant\u2019s at 792 knots.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Words have meaning.\u00a0 This was a night sortie, meaning there were very few visual cues, forcing the flight to rely on verbal communication for some maneuvers.<\/p>\n<p>The flight lead <em>said<\/em> right.\u00a0 Then he <em>went <\/em>left.\u00a0 He wouldn&#8217;t be the first person to mean his <em>military <\/em>right.<\/p>\n<p>Both pilots survived, though the wingman ejected while the flight lead was able to land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Military Times, the midair collision of two F\/A-18s from Naval Air Station Fallon last year was the result of a very simple pilot error: Shortly after takeoff, they moved into a &#8220;wall formation&#8221; with the Super Hornets four abreast, putting 1.2 nautical miles between the two planes that eventually would collide. The lieutenant commander was flying one [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13,224,295,748,5285,2,36,32],"class_list":["post-12713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-ejection","tag-f-18","tag-fallon","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-pilot-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}