Check Out These Photos of a Crippled F/A-18 Hornet That Flew Home

I am, sure that was an intense ride home

LTC Ivan Raiklin, Esq. To read the pilot's account, he may as well have just said "I had a bad day at the office." He saved his aircraft, and had the presence of mind to worry about the other pilot. Underscores that there is no such thing as a "routine" training flight. What the article missed (maybe redacted) was how they came to be so close without noticing it.