SSgt Paul Myers
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Post by SSgt Paul Myers on Sept 26, 2007 11:54:32 GMT 9
I was there the day 0068 crashed. I was an AWCIS specialist on the ramp when the word got around that 0068 had a throttle stuck at full military power. The manufacturer was contacted for a possible solution to the problem. The strategy was for the pilot to bleed off as much fuel as possible to lessen the chances of fire upon landing. If the pilot could cut off the supply of fuel 7 seconds before touchdown, then the engine would starve out and the plane could be landed. It did not work as the engine did not quit until the craft was more than half way down the runway. The pilot dead sticked the aircraft back up just at the end and grabbed the ejection handles. We saw the explosion and thought the plane had exploded when it was actually the pilot being rocketed out by the egress system. Then we saw his chute open and an HH43 helicopter working to keep him from drifting into the inferno created from the crashed aircraft. The pilot survived but the aircraft was destroyed. Thank God for for an egress system that worked, a well packed chute and the pilot in that HH43. If you have seen the movie Apollo 13, then you know how all of us felt when we found out the pilot had survived.  |
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Post by ulao on Dec 19, 2010 8:47:00 GMT 9
I happened to see this incident too. I was in Air Traffic Control Radar Repair. I was repairing a latch on the door to the radar trailer at RAPCON directly across from the tower. I saw 2 106s on final, 1 with landing light the other without. No landing light meant gear not down & locked so I new something was wrong. The plane with gear down touched down and was soon trailing lots of smoke from the tires. He soon passed me going like a bat outa hell. he continued till nearly the end of the runway then rotated and began to climb. he couldn't have been 100 feet up when the engine exploded. I understand that the web barrier was raised which didn't even slow him down but the engine ingested a piece of it which caused the explosion.
John Green Sgt 2171 Comm Sqdn.
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Post by pvmyers01 on Sept 30, 2011 6:27:12 GMT 9
:  I recently visited Kincheloe AFB, now Kincheloe, MI and nearly all of the buildings are still there. However, four maximum security state prisons now occupy the property. Our 3 story barracks and the dining hall are all behind 2 separate very tall chain link fences laced with razor ribbon. The runway is now the Chippewa County International Airport and another runway 9/27 (4999 ft) has been added that runs directly in front of our 6 hangers. Our old runway (16/34) has been shortened from 13,000 down to 7,201 feet. I guess they don't launch many B-52's there anymore. I was thinking how neat it would be to fly the Cessna up there and land it on the same runway that our 6's navigated. That is now on the bucket list. |
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I recently visited Kincheloe AFB, now Kincheloe, MI and nearly all of the buildings are still there. However, four maximum security state prisons now occupy the property. Our 3 story barracks and the dining hall are all behind 2 separate very tall chain link fences laced with razor ribbon. The runway is now the Chippewa County International Airport and another runway 9/27 (4999 ft) has been added that runs directly in front of our 6 hangers. Our old runway (16/34) has been shortened from 13,000 down to 7,201 feet. I guess they don't launch many B-52's there anymore. I was thinking how neat it would be to fly the Cessna up there and land it on the same runway that our 6's navigated. That is now on the bucket list. 
