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...like Dostal's crash, except for one thing. It was a British T-3 flying over the English Midlands, and both pilots were wearing parachutes. They bailed out and were back at work the next day. Only then did the Air Force order parachutes for its T-3s. "It was as if the Air Force held a gun to my son's head and pulled the trigger," Dostal says. "This should have been a safe, learning environment instead of something thought up by some hotdogging general...
...adequately trained him. The crash report said the engine was running while the plane plunged a mile in 30 sec., in 17 ever tightening spirals, into a snow-covered pasture. Yet witnesses told investigators the plane was silent as it came down. The Air Force grounded the T-3s for a week. And when they resumed flying, spins were banned...
...cadets were uneasy too. "With two accidents in two years, I'm not entirely sure it's completely safe," Cadet Daniel Ronneberg told investigators. In the wake of the accident, the Air Force barred cadets from practicing forced landings. But two days after the second crash, the T-3s were ordered back into...
...Force insists they were. A week after the third fatal crash in 28 months, the planes were ordered back into the air. The Air Force finally grounded the T-3s last July 25 after an engine once again stopped in midair and neither the cadet nor the instructor could restart it. Luckily, the plane was over the academy runway and landed safely. "We want an effective flight-screening program, but a safe one," says General Lloyd Newton, head of the service's Air Education and Training Command in San Antonio, Texas, who ordered the grounding. "We've certainly bumped into...
...course itself is not overly challenging but offers plenty of opportunities to foul up your score. There are three par 3s, four...