apartment complexes, or they had no choice? i guarantee you they had no time and no choice. every pilot makes their own decision about their moral considerations, what are you going to do in this situation, the wing man mentality is to look out for the people in the airplane and the people on the ground. i promise you that had they had choices and time, and they were able to i want to bring in chad myers, chad s got a question for you. tell me a little bit, you talked about what was going through the pilot s mind. describe a pilot who knows his plane is not going to fly anymore. what s the thought process, and i m sure you think about four minutes worth of things in about four seconds. what is that process like when you re in a plane? it s one of the most unique processes in the world. i have to say in my case, i m long since being a navy pilot, but it shaped the rest of my life because it put every challenge into sequential order and in this case, in milliseconds.
beach. at a news conference just now, city and navy officials say std they know of no fatalities, even though the fire after the crashed burned at least 40 apartments. also, the city s mayor tells cnn at least nine people including the two pilots were injured, and none of the injuries are considering ligfe-threatening. a virginia beach hospital reported it treated seven people, and except for one of the pilots all have been released. a navy spokesman revealed new details of the crash. shorting after noon we had a training flight, a two-seat hornet take off from naval air station yoeoceania. shortly after take-off that aircraft suffered a catastrophic mechanical malfunction. the specifics of which i don t want to speculate on. however, it resulted in the forced ejection of that air crew. both of those air crew ejected safely. the front seater was a student pilot. the back seater was an experienced instructor. it resulted in their forced ejection and the lost of the aircraft,
would have been a better place to hit or a worst place to hit. there s so many apartment complexes around here. can you describe more that area of where the plane crashed? yeah. it s we are maybe a half a mile from virginia beach ocean front. big resort area. lots of homes, lots of apartment complexes. and it s it s just a place that, you know, anywhere but here kind of thing. again, if it was a half a mile to the west, it could have been in a creek or a marshy area. and he would have had to have probably crossed at least one marshy area to get to this point. how did you know that this was unusual or different? you say that you have got low-flying airplaplanes in this all the time. how did you know this was something that was unusual and dangerous? well, i ll tell you, again, the way it was coming in, it almost came in like it was trying to land with the nose facing up and there was nowhere for it to touch down. there was no flat ground in the direction he was hea