Pilot ejects an instant before fighterjet crashes

[Swede]

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/07/23/4739027-pilot-ejects-an-instant-before-fighterjet-crashes

[Swede]

1. video link below

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=765_1279936610

[Dr.Phool]

2. The pilot stalled it.

I told them to keep John McCain away from those things.

[Webster Green]

3. He sure did.

That's some amazing video. The pilot got out just in time.

[MyNameGoesHere]

8. That's amazing! You have the flight data recorder already

and have evaluated the data before the military has.

[Dr.Phool]

12. No, but I am a pilot.

And I've been through enough stalls to know one when I see it on video. He was doing a low speed demonstration, and his airspeed got to low for the angle of attack. Watch the nose and wings break at the last second, before ejection.

[MyNameGoesHere]

18. That is way cool!

How many f-18's have you flown in an air show featuring the low and slow capabilities? I am glad to hear a f-18 pilots perceptions on this, as my untrained eye sees something entirely different. Hell he wasn't even going slow as compared to other f-18 low and slow flybys.


This is low and slow, tell me did this pilot stall it in the video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2p-fPtzuew

Even this one is kind of crappy, i have seen them at a much greater angle of attack, but that is from real pilots not those air show guys.

oh and then there is this.

All of a sudden you could hear 'pop, pop, pop,' " witness Roland Booth told CTV News. "I saw sparks come out of the one engine. The plane started banking over to the side. That's when the pilot bailed out with his parachute."
Now I am not a f-18 pilot but i seen enough flame outs to know that's what happened.

[theoldman]

4. The pilot stayed with the aircraft until the last fraction of a second.

A lot of people could have been killed if he had ejected sooner and let the aircraft fly past the runway.

[AnArmyVeteran]

15. Neil Armstrong had to eject from the lunar landing vehicle he was flying.

I had a friend who witnessed Neil Armstrong ejecting from a training lunar landing vehicle at Ellington Air Force Base next to Johnson Space Center near Houston. It was a very close call for the first man to step foot on the moon. The LLRV was very difficult to fly, but just 14 months later Neil Armstrong flew the lunar landing vehicle and landed safely on the moon.

http://www.astronautix.com/astros/armtrong.htm

6 May 1968 - Apollo lunar landing research vehicle No 1 crashed at Ellington Air Force Base. Lunar landing research vehicle (LLRV) No. 1 crashed at Ellington Air Force Base, Tex. The pilot, astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, ejected after losing control of the vehicle, landing by parachute with minor injury. Estimated altitude of the LLRV at the time of ejection was 60 meters. LLRV No. 1, which had been on a standard training mission, was a total loss - estimated at $1.5 million. LLRV No. 2 would not begin flight status until the accident investigation had been completed and the cause determined.

[Historic NY]

5. For once the music score matched the video.........

"Stayin alive".

[Octafish]

6. Great photo and video.

Best of all, the pilot survived and no one on the ground was injured.

PS: Apart from the loss of the RCAF's Hornet, the only negative is the Bee Gee's soundtrack..."Stayin' alive, stayin' alive. Ah ah ah ah..."

[trusty elf]

9. I've seen horrific photos of the aftermath of a crash at an air show.

I think it was in Russia. A jet plowed into a crowd of spectators. Someone posted gruesome pictures of the mangled bodies. :scared:

Thankfully that didn't happen here. I wonder why the pilot pulled the nose up while flying so slowly and so low?

[Swede]

11. I've seen this at airshows,the jet is totally vertical and moves

slowly horizontally across the airfield. He then kicks in the afterburners and blasts off straight up.

[MicaelS]

13. He was flying a demonstration

High angle of attack, low airspeed, to shows how slow an aircraft can fly and keep flying. Unfortunately this one went wrong.

[Octafish]

14. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha hah to infinity!

Just lost breakfast -- but, I don't care. Thank you for a perfect picture, trusty elf.

Regarding the stall: The pilot was practicing an "Alpha Pass" fly-by maneuver:



SOURCE: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/24/AR2010072401086.html

[Beaverhausen]

17. LOL!!!

:rofl:

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. Where's the fuselage?

I think it may have been a missile!

Something doesn't look right?

What are the chances of them actually playing "Staying Alive" while this happened?

I don't think there was a plane at all. Who actually saw the plane? Can we say computer animation?

:sarcasm:

[Stoic]

10. That's gonna cost. n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

16. One of our pilots ejected after his plane went through the fence at the end of the runway.

We were fueling our planes from on top of the wings and saw the whole thing. He came in too fast and went off the end of the runway, through the fence in a cloud of dust and stopped. Then he ejected. He claimed that the ejection was caused by the fence wire that somehow pulled his face mask. The investigators didn't buy it and he got some punishment to go along with the two broken ankles.

It enlivened our tedious day though.