It's a form of punishment in the USAF. It downgraded my performance report, which is used for promotions. I had to score a little higher on my promotion testing (the last 5 are stacked for promotion purposes) than my co-workers as well.

Indirect fire, so to speak.

Yeah, but that particular plane sucked. I liked working mine much better (I was the Dedicated Crew Chief on this one). 628th A-10 off the production line. I miss her sometimes.

Hey, everyone makes mistakes. So long as you can fess up to them, learn from them, and not let them happen again, it's just a bump in the road.

Signed, no written feedback, looked at the Captain and said I made a huge mistake. Learned from it, went on to deploy later that year and do some cool things. I keep the letter in my cubical as a reminder not to do stupid shit.

For clarification so I don't seem like the idiot in the video above:

I'll have you know I helped fix it. Numerous times. That jet was a pig anyway.

I have no idea how someone could do something like that!

Must've been before my time. My first ever commercial flight (out of DTW no less), was in 1996.

Don't worry, I do the same thing.

I know they'd still use marshallers and wing walkers, but there would still be a delay between them seeing a hazard and the pilot reacting to their hand signals.

My concern with it would be with the "pushback" from the gate. The guys in the tug have much better control and situational awareness than the pilots can have due to the limited visibility from the cockpit.

Damnit! I thought my Celicas were considered "classics". I might have to rethink that now.

Yeah, considering the F-16 single ship demonstration teams were called Viper East & West, it's much more used than Falcon or Fighting Falcon.

There's something about Yolandi rapping with Thomas' theme going...

KOMO has this photo up of the helicopter involved on the helipad (undated photo)

Could be Kirtland too.

Meet one of the crazy bastards that flies on the right of the HH-60:

I always liked the Biggie one. NSFW due to some motherfuckers.

Heard the same thing.

Woman on KIRO Radio is stating it's a Bell 407 (seems weird as it's been reported above that it was a Eurocopter AS350).