{"id":29196,"date":"2012-03-19T16:55:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T20:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29196"},"modified":"2012-03-19T16:55:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T20:55:50","slug":"preliminary-report-on-neptunus-lex-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29196","title":{"rendered":"Preliminary report on Neptunus Lex&#8217; accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>509th Bob sends us a link to an article from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lahontanvalleynews.com\/article\/20120319\/NEWS\/120319911\/1055&#038;ParentProfile=1045\">Lahontan Valley News<\/a> with the preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board&#8217;s relating to the accident that killed our friend retired Navy Capt. Carroll LeFon earlier this month;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the NTSB, LeFon&#8217;s flight had left NAS Fallon at 7:52 a.m., and after an adverse training mission, LeFon attempted to return to the field. The NTSB reports LeFon tried to make two Ground Control Approach radar approaches to NAS Fallon, but because of the weather, LeFon attempted to divert to the Reno-Tahoe International Airport. Reno-Tahoe reported minimal weather conditions, and as a result, LeFon returned to NAS Fallon and told air traffic controllers he was in a \u201ccritical fuel state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report further stated LeFon descended and maneuvered first toward runway 31 and then runway 13 before the F-21 the accident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe airplane struck the ground in an open field in the northwest corner of the airport property and impacted a concrete building on the field,\u201d stated the NTSB report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bucking the odds stacked against him, Nep Lex managed to minimize the damage to the air field and other casualties besides himself. As I said initially, I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s the way he would have wanted to leave us; doing what he loved most and with his boots on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>509th Bob sends us a link to an article from Lahontan Valley News with the preliminary &hellip; <a title=\"Preliminary report on Neptunus Lex&#8217; accident\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29196\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Preliminary report on Neptunus Lex&#8217; accident<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers-and-stuff","category-blue-skies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}