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PostPosted: Sun May 28, 2023 12:28 am 
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https://www.kdrv.com/news/top-stories/p ... fd68f.html

The link above is for the local TV coverage which doesn’t say much even in the video. I would assume that the aircraft suffered a hydraulic failure of some sort. I used to fly tankers out of K Falls and the runway is almost embarrassingly long. Of course that’s assuming that the F-15 touched down somewhere in the first 1/3 of the runway. At least they got it out of the canal.

I lost the brakes on landing in a B-17 once and it’s a truly helpless feeling. No matter how long the runway is you can never get the airplane to stop. My copilot finally had to heave a wheel chock through the front entrance door and against the left main wheel before we finally stopped rolling. The F-15 pilot did manage to avoid going into the approach lights.


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Looks like someone will be getting a F-15 gate guard soon!

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