The pilot conducted a missed approach and held for 15 minutes to await better weather. Upon return to the airfield, after flying an instrument approach, Gonsalves was unable to see the runway due to water pooling on the canopy-a known aerodynamic quirk of the F-16. Problem is then I lose all my emails and. I reinstalled it and moved file over and the only way to get it to open is to replace the profile file in the data folder. Today I open Thunderbird and it crashes right away.
I have to use Pop3 due to work and everything is fine. The team practice was cancelled the day of the accident due to bad weather in Dayton, but the familiarization flights were left on the schedule. I have been using Thunderbird portable for a while and have had no issues. Gonsalves is the team narrator and was the pilot of the number 8 aircraft, so he conducted most of the team’s familiarization and incentive rides for members of the media and VIPs.
Kenneth Cordova, a non-flying Thunderbirds crew member, were conducting a “familiarization flight,” where a backseat passenger is introduced to the capabilities of the aircraft and maneuvers typically flown by the team. The report further found that Gonsalves did not properly follow the maximum performance braking procedure. Eric Gonsalves, the pilot, did not pull the throttle to idle until the aircraft had flown 3,000 feet down the runway, according to the AIB. The mishap pilot did not elect to go around.” In addition to being 43 knots fast over the threshold, Capt. Mishap aircraft had sufficient fuel to divert to a Visual Flight Rules (VFR) alternate. The Air Force Accident Investigation Board (AIB) concluded, “The cause of this mishap was landing with excess airspeed and insufficient distance to stop the mishap aircraft on the wet runway. The $29 million aircraft was entirely destroyed when it flipped after departing the paved surface area. Air Force F-16, assigned to the Thunderbirds, that crashed following a runway overrun at Dayton International Airport in June was more than 40 knots too fast on final approach and did not touch down until nearly 5,000 feet down the runway.
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