Well my heart is still pounding from it.. but a C-130 and a piper warrior or possibly an arrow just nearly collided over my house.
I was working outside and heard a loud jet over head and looked up and saw a C-17 flying north over my house from the south and went inside and asked my mom if obama was in town because Pit doesn get C-17's that often and thats the airlifter used when he goes somewhere... she said that she didnt hear of him coming or being here already...
Then 20secs later i heard another heavy plane coming and so i walked back outside. i also heard a small plane approaching from the southwest. then the C-130 came into veiw and it was heading northwest from the southeast. Mean while i heard the piper (what it turned out to be) getting louder and i knew it was going to be close so i started looking for it. the piper came into view and then i was like, damn i wish i had my camera... but then my heart dropped when i saw them coming for each other. the piper decended before they met and flew under it. it was EXTREMELY close. There was absolutely no horizontal seperation and they passed vertically under 1000ft. the 130 had to have been just over 3000ft and the piper about 2250-2500ft. (thats the normal altitude most GA fly over my house when approaching KBVI.) though if they had collided they would have been in the perfect location. Our firehall is just .5mile away from my house and then two more are within 4miles. if they had collided the piper would have crashed on my property or my neighbors.
I checked flight aware and didnt see anything.
but now i want to know what was both the C-17 and C-130 was doing here? anyone know if there was any training exercises around the Pit area? i mean Pit is half airforce, but we never see 130's or 17's so close to the airport.
