Nope It was aircraft 745, which was originally a single seat that we
had removed the forward cockpit section from and installed a 2 seat
(side by side) cockpit section on, to convert if from a F Mk 50
(fighter) to a T Mk 8...(trainer) .It happened in 1998 in Manchester,
New Hampshire. Pilots name wa John Childress.
Plane essentially flamed out on approach duruiing a series of touch
and goes and some other low altitude manuvers the pilot wa doing, and
came in as a pancake landing......IIRC there really was minimal damage
overall to the aircraft, and it was his delay in ejecting and
reliance on his training (trust your instruments etc) that cost him
his life..... His drouge chute on his canopy was deployed but the
seat never left the aircraft as he pulled too late. He was a teriffic
pilot, and at one time flew as a member of the Thunderbird's, as well
as later being the OIC in charge of the USAF demostration team in
F4's. The USAF demonstration team is not the same thing as a
Thunderbird member, as its usually one pilot that takes a single ship
to a base to demo its capability to a new gaining unit to get their
adrenalin pumping etc......He used to be regular USAF, then joined the
Alabama Air NAtional guard as a Recce and later a fighter pilot, in
addition to being a Captain for either Delta or American Airlines, and
later on he was transferred by the ALA NAt Guard to a position in
Washington DC as a National Guard Liason Officer to the USAF, where he
still moon lighted as a commercial airlines captain as well as chielf
pilot for the company that bought the aircraft from Northern Lights
when it went out of Business.

The link detaining all investigation of this accident is below.
The aircraft you mentioned also at one time belonged to Northern
Lights and was acquired later on after acft 745 IIRC and it came from
Ruwanda S.A . Air Force IIRC....


http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief2.asp?...FA129& akey=1



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