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December 16th 06, 11:03 PM
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HUD view of a near-miss
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:01:22 -0800, "Mike Kanze"
wrote: During the run-in for our third or fourth pass, some bozo in a 172 comes toodling north right across our run-in line about 500' below us. We saw him and pulled up just as he passed under our big A-6 nose. Similar incident: I had a student doing strafing runs at Yankee Target west of NAS Chase. We had just rolled in and was about 2 seconds away from trigger time when this Cessna 206 flew right through our sights at an estimated 100' AGL. I called "abort" and we pulled off target. Lead rolled in on him to get his number but he had none! Another opportunity lost - dude was probably running drugs (he was headed northeast) and would have served him right if he had been a few seconds later and gotten a cockpit full of inert 20mm!!!!!!!! John Alger USN(ret) 1972-1997 // 1310,1320 TA-4J, A-7E, EC-130Q, P-3B 
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