A pair of military aviators were disciplined for violating Marine Corps Air Station Miramar’s flight regulations during two separate October incidents, and several neighbors say the base hasn’t done enough to police pilots.
Lt. Col. Bryant Budde, Miramar’s director of operations, said that investigators found “no unsafe issues” with the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet strike flights on Oct. 18 and 20 but the pilots were reprimanded after failing to follow all Federal Aviation Administration air traffic controller commands and straying into areas usually off limits because of base noise rules.
Read the complete Union Tribune article by military affairs and national security reporter Carl Prine at http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/military/sd-me-miramar-complaints-20180127-story.html
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