An F-1 or F-2 TORNADO has touched down in Montebello/Commerce City near Los Angeles, CA. Videos below show the VERY unusual occurrence as buildings fly apart from the winds:
This additional video is a sort of compilation of several social media postings from the area, showing the extensive damage done:
This tornado touched down about eight miles from downtown Los Angeles, CA today.
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Probably will never know what happened.
one possibility is that someone put the wrong fuel in the tanks.
If what I am reading is correct there are two fuel tanks per engine.
One tank with 100 gallons for takeoff and another with 300 gallons for cruise.
Lets say someone by mistake put Jet fuel in the takeoff tanks that might blow an engine apart and would account for two explosions.
That is just a possibility.
Could not the explosion of the engine have caused a secondary explosion of the (tanker?)? Random access memory, LOL: our pilots were doing a PMCF on a SH3H when the left lateral servo on the rotorhead failed causing the pilots to have to SLAM the collective control to the floor while the chopper pitched into the hanger bay. Thankfully no-one was injured but the fuselage went to depot & we scavenged lots of spare parts! This was the same model of antisubmarine helicopter that I thought was on fire due to hydraulic fluid spewing from the rotorhead in the Arctic, backlit by the sun hence I did the figure 8 while pointing at the rotorhead. Thankfully it was just a hydraulic leak & I was embarrassed, however I may have saved the lives of our crew & helicopter while we were being buzzed by Soviet Bears flying one on top of another to avoid radar detection. Those reciprocating props have a very distinctive sound! There was even a Soviet 'trawler' spying on us during Teamwork 88 between Iceland & Greenland!
That said I've flown to many villages in AK including on a Cessna Caravan which flew in at an angle to the dirt runway in Chevak before straightening out at the last second because of the wind. It's even more exciting seeing 737's do this, Nome is especially windy! I think I flew on the last 737 Combis (1/2 cargo, 1/2 passengers). So the prop jobs are even more important now to get goods to these extremely remote villages. A red fox was even begging me for food @ the Nome airport at the crack of dawn. Watch out for those musk ox!
To the Ukrainian NAZIS???