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07-05-2007, 06:08 PM | # 1 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
| Piece Of Navy Jet That Crashed Off Florida Washes Up In Ireland Though it's not timely news I thought it to be interesting enough to share just the same. May 09, 2006 NORFOLK, Va. -- A tail section from a U.S. Navy fighter jet that crashed 3½ years ago off Key West, Fla., has turned up 4,900 miles away on a beach in Ireland. A retired commercial airline captain, identified by the Irish Examiner newspaper as Charlie Coughlan, discovered the tail piece Friday. The Navy confirmed Tuesday that markings on the section, including squadron insignia and a serial number, pointed to the downed F-14 Tomcat. Currents from the Gulf of Mexico near the tip of Florida might have floated the nearly 10-foot-long triangular piece of vertical stabilizer, one of two on the plane, to the beach in West Cork on Ireland's southern shore. The F-14, based in Virginia, crashed near Key West in the Gulf of Mexico on Oct. 3, 2002, during a training mission. Both crew members ejected safely. | |||||||||||||
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07-05-2007, 10:13 PM | # 2 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
| Re: Piece Of Navy Jet That Crashed Off Florida Washes Up In Ireland Yea i read that story about a year ago...Amazing things happened with stuff like that too. JP | |||||||||||||
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07-06-2007, 03:21 AM | # 3 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
| Re: Piece Of Navy Jet That Crashed Off Florida Washes Up In Ireland Glad they got out. Cork huh? Wonder if he kept it? Be neat to have that hanging in the garage. | |||||||||||||
| Leigh-Mallory and his big wings! Might as well stay on the ground for all the use they are! | ||||||||||||||
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07-06-2007, 11:29 AM | # 4 Quick Link (permalink) | ||||||||||||||
| Re: Piece Of Navy Jet That Crashed Off Florida Washes Up In Ireland
Rumor has it he's been camped down at the beach waiting for the rest of it to wash up...He's planning to do a full resto and hopes to have it on the airshow circuit soon. | ||||||||||||||
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07-06-2007, 12:31 PM | # 5 Quick Link (permalink) | ||||||||||||||
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He'd better be careful as the Pentagon may want it back as being an F14 part it poses a 'clear and present danger' to national security ...   | ||||||||||||||
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07-06-2007, 12:37 PM | # 6 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
| Re: Piece Of Navy Jet That Crashed Off Florida Washes Up In Ireland Yeah, he might be selling all of the parts that wash up on the beach to the Iranians. | |||||||||||||
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07-06-2007, 04:49 PM | # 7 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
| Re: Piece Of Navy Jet That Crashed Off Florida Washes Up In Ireland Here's a pic.. | |||||||||||||
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07-06-2007, 05:16 PM | # 8 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
| Re: Piece Of Navy Jet That Crashed Off Florida Washes Up In Ireland That piece would make an impressive display prop (ala Corgi Nose Art) next to a Century Wings F-14 , wouldn't it?  | |||||||||||||
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07-06-2007, 06:19 PM | # 9 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
|  Re: Piece Of Navy Jet That Crashed Off Florida Washes Up In Ireland Very neat Me 262 nightfighter you've got there Harry! | |||||||||||||
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07-06-2007, 07:14 PM | # 10 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
|  Re: Piece Of Navy Jet That Crashed Off Florida Washes Up In Ireland aw skunky, if ever I have a bad day you always make me laugh with you cazy way of thinkg what would we do with out you. | |||||||||||||
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