Blue Angels Grounded
Blue Angels grounded, following a lower-than-normal maneuver during the team’s last performance at the Lynchburg Regional Air Show May 22. Commander Dave Koss, the head of the Navy’s Blue Angels, has “voluntarily” resigned after repeated unsafe maneuvers.
Koss was relieved by Rear Adm. Bill Sizemore, chief of Naval Air Training Command, according to a statement from Naval Air Forces.
“With deep personal regret I shared with my command today that I will be voluntarily leaving the greatest flight demonstration team. I performed a maneuver that had an unacceptably low minimum altitude,” Koss wrote in the statement. “This maneuver, combined with other instances of not meeting the airborne standard that makes the Blue Angels the exceptional organization that it is, let to my decision to step down.”
Koss will be replaced by Capt. Greg McWherter, previous CO of the Blue Angels, for the rest of the season.
Koss was relieved by Rear Adm. Bill Sizemore, chief of Naval Air Training Command, according to a statement from Naval Air Forces.
“With deep personal regret I shared with my command today that I will be voluntarily leaving the greatest flight demonstration team. I performed a maneuver that had an unacceptably low minimum altitude,” Koss wrote in the statement. “This maneuver, combined with other instances of not meeting the airborne standard that makes the Blue Angels the exceptional organization that it is, let to my decision to step down.”
Koss will be replaced by Capt. Greg McWherter, previous CO of the Blue Angels, for the rest of the season.
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