Iowa flyover might have been a "Bit" too low....

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It appears as though we have a bit of a flyover controversy brewing out in the Midwest. Apparently a pair of Vance Air Force base in Oklahoma were doing a flyover before the Ohio State/Iowa game last month.

They allegedly flew a bit too low. The flight deck was supposed to be 1000 feet, according to video they looked a little bit lower than that. The base is investigating.

This is not the 1st time something like this has happened. We reported in March about a flyover at the 2009 Georgia/Georgia Tech game. Here is the story.

In that incident, the two pilots, Navy pilots, were grounded and eventually reassigned. We don't know what will happen in the Iowa incident, but it is an interesting parallel.

Check out the TV Story/Video from WHO-TV in Des Moines and judge for yourself.
 

So much for doing a flyover....

Apparently, the US Navy has some pretty strict rules about their flyovers at Football games. Two fighter pilots were grounded recently for flying too low over Bobby Dodd stadium in Atlanta before a Georgia Tech Football game this past November.

More from PilotOnline.com RIGHT HERE

AJC.com adds that the pilots had a Tech connection. The story RIGHT HERE

Apparently, the pilots are supposed to adhere to a 1,000 foot ceiling during their flyovers and the pilots, Lt. Commanders Christopher Condon and Marc Fryman were considerably lower than that. They apparently reported themselves.

A Navy board determined that they didn't do it deliberately or maliciously, but made some errors in judgement. However, the commander of the Naval Air Force Atlantic didn't agree. He basically said the pilots knew better and there was no excuse.

Take a look at the video of the flyover. This one shot from the upper deck, which they barely cleared. Courtesy: aparker1981 and You Tube:

Here is another angle. Wow! Gotta say that I've covered hundreds of games that included flyovers and I don't think I've ever seen any that were as low as this.

Angle 2 from JGammie3 and You Tube: