[MilCom] Fatal Snowbird Crash

[Jay MacNEILL]

yep ...sad time again for the snowbirds and the aviation community.
missed will be  Captain Miles Selby  radioing to his other team mates on 
272.1 mhz uhf-am
which he did last august at the abbotsford international airshow.

http://www.snowbirds.dnd.ca/index_e.asp


rob.berezowski at sasktel.sk.ca wrote:

>Here is an update to Tom's report.
>
>All flight training at CFB Moose Jaw has been suspended until further
>notice. This will probably be lifted after the memorial and funeral
>services. I suspect it may be quite a while though before Snowbird training
>resumes.
>
>The two pilots involved were Snowbirds 8 and 9, Lead Solo and Opposing
>Solo. No comment has been given on the maneuvers being conducted at the
>time of the accident. In fact, there is no indication at all so far on even
>a preliminary cause of the accident. The accident happened near Mossbank,
>in a military flying area, south of Moose Jaw. Accident investigators have
>been on scene since Saturday. The wreckage of the two aircraft is scattered
>over a 10 km square area. It will take a while to comb through all of the
>fields to locate all of the wreckage.
>
>Rob
>Regina, Saskatchewan
>
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>Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:45:03 -0800 (PST)
>From: "Tom M." <courir26 at yahoo.com>
>Subject: [MilCom] Fatal Snowbird Crash
>To: milcom at mailman.qth.net
>Message-ID: <20041210204503.39162.qmail at web51701.mail.yahoo.com>
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>I was tuning in to CFRB and saw this news:
>
>MOOSE JAW, Sask. (CP) - One pilot from the Canadian Forces' famed Snowbirds
>team was killed Friday and a second suffered minor injuries in a mid-air
>collision between two jets during a routine training flight in
>Saskatchewan.
>The dead pilot, Capt. Miles Selby, 31, of Tsawwassen, B.C., was a two-year
>veteran of the Snowbirds and had flown CF-18 fighter jets during combat
>missions in Kosovo.
>
>Too bad . . .
>Tom
>
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