Michael

Puget Sound Photographer

[Michael @swajaaaa]

New angle of the F/A-18D crash

You can see the wing mounted fuel tanks spraying fuel, I’m guessing he hit some trees at this point

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@vcdgf555 Yep, never seen more than just one buzzing around at a time here

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@knife36493 @thenewarea51 That’s what I was thinking, my buddy was up there the day before photographing bald eagles

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@teeohdoubleoh @thenewarea51 He actually walked away, only went to the hospital per protocol

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@ShayneB52 @vcdgf555 Correct

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@vcdgf555 Not that you needed more photos, but definitely single pilot

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@vcdgf555 Yea, super surreal. On one side, I’m glad I’m a photographer and capture memories, on the other, I’m just super sad, this sucks

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@vcdgf555 432 was the last one in, he was with 415

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@vcdgf555 I made sure to go through all of my photos before I said anything, they were hot fueling and I stayed for each departure/rtb

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Rip to a beautiful jet, glad the pilot ejected safely

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@vcdgf555 Crazy to think these are the last photos of that bird. I’m sad

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@vcdgf555 It was 415, 3 returned to KBFI, he did not 😭

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Jet in question.. Sad to lose one, glad the pilot is okay

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Legacy Hornet from “Death Rattlers” VMFA-323, down

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@Wa_fire_watch Yep, we were so confused why only three jets came back

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@Wa_fire_watch I was out at Boeing taking pictures of them, 4th jet never came back

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@Wa_fire_watch Marine F/A-18 crash, pilot survived

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For the Seattle area plane nerds, we’ve got a few Death Rattler legacy Hornets in town for VR usage 🤙🏻

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What are you doing, hmm?!? @thenewarea51