F-16 Pilot's Runway Death Forces Reckoning Over Tight Flight Hours, Training Gaps

[rangerrebew]

F-16 Pilot's Runway Death Forces Reckoning Over Tight Flight Hours, Training Gaps
 
12 Jun 2021
Military.com

Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series about the fatal accident of 1st Lt. David Schmitz, an F-16 pilot at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina.

Valerie Rudolph wasn't the waitress assigned to a table full of Air Force C-17 Globemaster III pilots and loadmasters taking a dinner break at Olive Garden while in Las Cruces, New Mexico, for a military exercise in 2011.

But her friend, who was taking care of the table, slipped a napkin with Valerie's name and number to one of the loadmasters, David Schmitz.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/06/12/f-16-pilots-runway-death-forces-reckoning-over-tight-flight-hours-training-gaps.html

[PeteS in CA]

This accident happened almost a year ago. For more context, https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,419574.msg2323859.html#msg2323859 .