Originally Posted by
PurpleToolBox
Given where debris has fallen and where eyewitnesses were located when the accident happened, it appears the aircraft were outside of Charleston's Class D airspace in an area not far from Berkeley County Airport, KMKS when they collided.
A Shaw AFB spokesman has already said the F-16 pilot was on an IFR training flight and was talking to ATC. The F-16 was most likely on vectors or on an instrument approach.
At my last base (McGuire), this was one of if not the top safety issues noted each year I was there (being on an approach outside of Class C or D airspace and a civilian aircraft flies through the approach procedure).
This is consistent with news source reports.
I always perk up when I get the "no known traffic between you and ... switch to advisory." In a way I hope it is not one of those "nobody did anything wrong" situations which scare me daily.
I brought up Shaw METAR at collision time:
KSSC 071458Z AUTO 20005KT 10SM CLR 30/22 A3013 RMK AO2 SLP202 T02950221 50003 $
so viz wasn't a factor. RIP to the two in the Cessna.
