F16 - Crash

The Thunderbirds are the demonstration team of the Air force, and this manuever was well in the limits of the aircraft's capabilities. Basically, this is the pilot's job and he was not hot-dogging or shining his ass. The intake of an F-16 is huge, and it had sucked up a large bird. A large bird can do major damage in a very short time to a high performance jet engine...by "short time", I mean in half a heart beat. The pilots are trained to recognize dangerous situations immedicately and take the appropriate action. He elected to eject, which was obviously the appropriate action. If this seems like a waste of tax dollars, then write any of your Congress people...you have a representative from your particular area, and two senators for the whole state. Write a letter to them expressing your dis-satisfaction. They will be more than impressed with your prowess in the written word, and surely act promptly to your request.

Great to get both perspectives of it too...

When you go into a loop like that, you need to stay verticle on the "up" leg of it before you go inverted and then onto the subsequent dive before the pull out and recovery at final. Many times you aren't even looking at the altimenter. because it's something you just feel. Even if you've never flown anything at all, get on a flight simulator and do the same thing. With practice you will know. You could tell that this pilot did not stay verticle long enough to go higher before he went inverted. I could tell that before he even started this routine. It was way too soon.

ok well he really did not get enough hight before he did the looop and that is a big big wast of money which is upsetting really cuz that is such an awsome aircraft. bet the others were pissed off lol

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Not setting the altimeter was one stupid mistake but the ejection decision and the execution was excellent. Not many have such decision making ability.

they should put the controls of the ejector seat between the cheeks of his ass...he would have ejected 5 seconds earlier!

does it matter what happened if he lived. And that probably cost each tax payer 5c if that. we should send some more british pilots over to show them how it done ;)

ooooooo it crashed, not a british pilot then!!!! were far to good for that ol bean wot wot wot. oh rathar

Lol!!!!!!!

cool, lucky for that man, that he dossen`t feel annything when he dide =). what a adrenalin kick it moust bee =) =) =)

the pilot forgot to reset the altimeter before taking off, so it was giving an incorrect reading.

I am stationed in Mountain Home, Idaho (that is where this occured) I was th ATC on that day and what happened is that the had come from a sea level show the week prior to this one which is 3000 feet above sea level. The pilot had forgotten to adjust his altimeter for ground level. This is actually a common error for alot of pilots, but not for this team. The pilot was cleared of all responsibility and countinued to fly for the duration of his tour.

in training

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.. And btw any of you P***ys who say 'ohh asif you would jumpp out of billion dollar plane' 'oh he cant drive' i bet you would of shat your pants u F**ks . At least from what i see there a few good people.

MORE CRASH .. PLS lol lol lol .. ha ha ha from arabia lol .. pls dont lit hem fly near the (NEW) comairshal tawers ... ha ha

Sad if the guy died, he looked to eject just before it crashed. A fault with the plane. It all looked like a smooth display aswel before it happened.

This is a old video (6yrs or so) of a USAF Thunderbird (the air demonstration team) in a F-16 Fightnig Falcon. So no, he does not have to pay for the aircraft and he is not a hotdog. It is actually his job to fly like that. The engine failed, he did not.

If you look closely there is a puff of smoke from the engine just before he ejected. Probably an engine failure or a bird-strike. The pilot analyzed it and ejected within a second of the failure. If he hadn't he would be DEAD. (assuming he survived -- I didn't see a 'chute...)

This pilot is amazing. Anybody who thinks he should be "charged for the airplane" is an idiot.

Does he get a bill from his job? Like "Nice one dumbass, that f-16 only cost us around 20mill bucks, so we'll have to deduct that from yer paycheck, and all because you had to show off! Jerk."

Do you reallly think he did this on purpose!????His engine lost thrust and he had to bail or he would have died! I would rather lose a plane than a life!

"I crashed a multi-billion dollar plane, but who cares? I got my Martin Baker tie!!"

USA can't beat Russia in army technologies. Try to search and compare what american jetplanes can do and what russian jetplanes can do. I was laughing after seeing those USAF airshows. My advice - search for Sukhoi videos. That is the jetplane for 21st century. Not like the F22, F/A 18 etc. crap (and I am not even talking about F16<--- LOLplane).

JULIA DUSCHE ??????HEHE

Its a thunderbird, not f-16

Like to take my car and roll it over a couple times for the thrill of it all and not have to pay for it.

..it was his last flight.

your problems.