The US Navy has long relied on two-engine aircraft because, when you’re flying only over blue water, it likes the reassuring backup of a second engine.\u00a0 (The acceptance of the single-engine F-35 was a significant event.)<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, sometimes two engines haven’t been enough<\/a>, as with the F\/A-18 Hornet<\/em> crash last April<\/a> in Virginia.\u00a0 The recently released report<\/a> says both engines failed shortly after takeoff:\u00a0 <\/p>\n An unprecedented dual engine failure caused an F\/A-18D Hornet flying a training mission to crash into a Virginia Beach apartment building this spring, Navy officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Apparently, the two independent failures were technically recoverable, but when the occurred so close together — and so close to the ground — it was a very challenging emergency to face.<\/p>\n Both aircrew survived, and no one on the ground was killed — despite the incineration of an apartment complex — leading some to dub the incident a “miracle.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The US Navy has long relied on two-engine aircraft because, when you’re flying only over blue water, it likes the reassuring backup of a second engine.\u00a0 (The acceptance of the single-engine F-35 was a significant event.) Unfortunately, sometimes two engines haven’t been enough, as with the F\/A-18 Hornet crash last April in Virginia.\u00a0 The recently released report says both engines […]<\/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":[13,619,2,36,2376],"class_list":["post-18397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-crash","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18397","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=18397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}