Finished an IP tour at VT-10 last November.. prayers for my old studs and colleagues who lost friends yesterday
Fannin County Sheriff spokesman said: "We got reports that it was flying pretty low ...The plane had flown north-northeast over the nearby town of Blue Ridge before it went down about 4:40 p.m."
Obviously daylight. Does that mean it was on a low level -- is there a low level route in that area??
According to http://www.pnj.com/article/20100413/NEWS01/4130310/NAS-jet-crashes-in-Ga.-%3Cbr%3E3-dead-1-missing (updated) the names are being withheld till tomorrow afternoon per SOP.Heard the names were released today. Anyone know/have link?
And the usual cockpit arrangement is PIC in left seat, stud in right seat, INFO in jumpseat. Miscellaneous cats and dogs in back, who may or may not do the inflight Chinese fire drill seat swap depending on the syllabus event.Contract pilot, Instructor NFO, and one student usually. A fourth (or more) crewmember can range from students to observers to flight docs, pax, etc. I wasn't at VT-86, so don't hold me to this, but I think it was standard to either have two studs per sortie (swap seats mid-flight like in the T-44 or C-12 for pilots) or one sitting back there on a volunteer basis to observe a flight.