By This is a tragic military accident that involved a Korean family in San Diego:
A grandmother, mother and her child died when a military fighter jet crashed into a house in San Diego Monday, igniting a huge fireball, CNN’s San Diego affiliates and the San Diego Union Tribune are reporting.
Another child is missing, authorities said. A search ended Monday when night fell but will continue Tuesday morning, a spokesperson for the medical examiner said.
The father is a businessman who was at work at the time of the crash, and was not reached for comment, according to the Tribune. The paper also reported that Monday night, a pastor and congregants at the family’s church, the Korean United Methodist Church of San Diego in Clairemont.
The pastor told a television station that the mother was in the home with her two sons — a 2 month-old and 1 year-old. The mother was a nurse at a hospital.
The F/A-18D plane, which authorities described as disabled, was trying to land at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. The jet had just performed landing training on a Navy aircraft carrier before the pilot reported having trouble, according to the Marine Corps. [CNN]
Here is a map of the crash site and you can see that the victims home was located towards the end of the runway located at the Miramar Marine Corps Air Station.
The pilot was able to eject safely and was found with his parachute tangled in a nearby tree. The lieutenant in his 20′s said that he lost power in one engine and tried to land with just the other engine when the crash occurred. As tragic as this is I would think the neighborhood was lucky not more people were killed. My condolences go out to the family of the victims and anyone else effected by this tragedy.
You can read more over at the Marmot’s Hole as well.
10:39 am on December 9th, 2008 1
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12:25 pm on December 9th, 2008 2
Sad news.
3:32 pm on December 9th, 2008 3
Korean “netizens” are already up in arms over this, blaming the pilot and the US in general. The Korean Han wears me out.
5:00 pm on December 9th, 2008 4
Who cares about Korean netizens. They driver theier singers and actresses to suicide. If they want to usa an accident as an excuse, we can bring up Cho Seung Hui
and the Virginia Tech attach to boycott korean goods.
5:37 pm on December 9th, 2008 5
ROBO, good grief – I hope just recently began learning English.
8:41 pm on December 9th, 2008 6
#5:
#4 seems to have just learned the language of a six-pack, but he is right on the mark.
Oh yea, I speak his language occasionally.:cool:
11:16 pm on December 9th, 2008 7
number 4 and 6 dont say idiotic things like that. if the plane crashed on your family you wouldnt be saying that.
11:51 pm on December 9th, 2008 8
This situation is very tragic but does happen as long as you have military aircraft flying over housing areas. The same could happen to a commercial liner flying over Hong Kong or Seoul simply pancaking on houses in the flight path. This is a reality…
BUT most military pilots will do just about anything in their power to steer their aircraft away from a housing area or attempt to minimize the damage to the civiliam populace if they know that their only option is to punch out. I’ve read countless stories of how pilots tried to avoid civilian casualities — sometimes at the cost of their own lives.
My questions are not about the Korean deaths, but about the circumstances of the aircraft and why the pilot had to eject where he did. Why was he above the housing area? Could he have glided away from there? Did he make the right decision? Should the flight path (if it is on final to the base) be modified? If in the El Toro area, there is a lot of open space and why was he over a housing area? A hundred and one questions to prevent a future occurence — not to chastize the military or pilot.
7:38 am on December 10th, 2008 9
I think this says it all. His feelings are what the Netizens of Korea should listen to and respect.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/09/military.jet.crash/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
I think his community will surround him and support him.
10:39 am on December 10th, 2008 10
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3:14 pm on December 10th, 2008 11
i was amazed at what a non-condemning attitude the father of the family that was killed had after this crash
10:35 am on December 16th, 2008 12
hey guys, i’m a korean and i read above comments about the incident. as you might think many of korean people are blaming on U.S. pilot who was drove over housing area. BUT there are much more people who don’t care whether the pilot is an american or not as it is an accident.
I feel pity on him and his family not because he is a korean but because he lost his family.