Thunderbird incident today at Chicago Air Show!

VampyreGTX

VampyreGTX

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So the #4 jet of the Thunderbirds lost his left missle rail during on of the diamond formation flyby's. They immediately canceled the rest of the show and returned to Gary Airport safely. As they were coming in low and fast, you saw a white shiny object break off the wing of the #4 jet and tumble into the water. Luckily it was just the rail and nothing else of major importance though I wonder what caused it to seperate.
 
Get a picture of it
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Unfortunately no, I'll psot the link to the news report which has a home video of it but it's not really worth watching for the debris, (though the performance clips are great!)

http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_232171527.html

EDIT:

Here's a much better view of the incident from another news station.

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/082005_ns_airshow.html

If you watch this whole clip, love how they talk about the F-22 while showing the F/A-18.... though this is the first air show I believe that the F-22 made a flight during (not counting the superbowl flyby)
 
Their performance for today (Sunday) has been canceled. They grounded the planes after evidence that #4 did in fact make contact with one of the other T-Bird jets.

Does that mean he'll be off the team or what do they do in that situation?

Here's the link to the story. Thank god the mid-air collision was minor and only resulted in the rail coming off and not a major incident.

http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_232171527.html
 
Got a call yesterday from my old college roommate. She overheard them announce that my OTHER old college roommate was flying one of the F-16s in the show! Thought that was fairly cool.
 
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Got a call yesterday from my old college roommate. She overheard them announce that my OTHER old college roommate was flying one of the F-16s in the show! Thought that was fairly cool.

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That's sweet.......cool to actually KNOW someone who is in the thunderbirds.

I've been to that show in Chicago.....it's awesome. I went to grad school in downtown Chicago and one of the dorms was right on Lake Shore Drive. Could go up to the roof and watch from there......the "birds eye view" as it were.

When I saw the show, the Blue Angles were there.
 
That was a close call. You never know with the demo teams. My friend I was in Air Cadets with eons ago, flew 18's out of Cold Lake and was chosen for the Snowbirds last Novemeber. He fly's the #7 jet. Pretty cool. He flew the 18 into Abotsford 2 yrs ago at the airshow. 2 months after he got on with the birds that accident happened with the 2 oposing solos. Dangerous job.......but still Way Cool
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Brent
 
You'd be surprised how many times they do touch during flights. It's simply an occupational hazard of what they do......aside from the parts coming off the plane.
 
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