Reply #3: Flight Safety Briefing, OV-1D Style [View All]

[jmowreader]

I got a chance to ride on an OV-1D Mohawk as a tactical observer once, along the Korean Demilitarized Zone.

This is a Mohawk.



Before we left Camp Humphreys, I jokingly asked the pilot if he was going to do a flight safety briefing like they do on airlines. "Yeah. You see that handle? (points at the ejection seat handle...) If the plane starts to fall out of the sky, pull that handle and you'll be shot through the canopy...unless we're really close to the DMZ, and then you've got a choice: die in a fiery plane crash or fall into the hands of the North Korean Army, who know that you came out of a spyplane. Me? I'm staying with the aircraft. You did practice your parachute landing fall before you came up here, right?"

The plane did not fall out of the sky.