F-14 Explosion

I was aboard the Uss. Mahlon S. Tisdale when this same inncident happened to us. Anyone who believes that this jet was shot down or came apart because of supersonic speeds is a fool. "WE" did not shoot the plane down, and these planes are designed to fly at that rate of speed. I helped recover the pilot and the funeral was very hard to attend due to the fact I held his lifeless, burnt and dismembered body in the water and put it into the rescue boat. He was not an American idiot, he was a patriot a father and a husband,,,,So show some respect! All F-14 planes were grounded for a day sometime after this video.

"A September 21, 1995 video of a F-14 fly-by that goes wrong. The aircraft nearly breaks the sound barrier (you can see the mist forming), then explodes because of what was apparently an engine compression failure. The two pilots, from VF-213 (Black Lions) ejected successfully. The carrier battlegroup, with the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), was 1,400 kilomters west of Guam at the time."

Since after the fireball you can see enough of the complete airframe spinning after it, I do believe that it is possible that the above statement is true. Though it would really S**k to eject at that speed. Happened to another pilot on an intruder and he nearly suffocated because when he was half ejected out of the plane it was like drinking from a fire hose.
Please ignore the previous childish statements.
There are pilots and then there are Naval aviators.
I'd trust a naval aviator.

Its clear to see that the jet was traveling at super sonic speeds. We see the wave buld-up behaving like a lense about 13 seconds into the clip, one could call it a giant magnifying glass. This lense effect is potentially dangerous if traveling away from the sun. Sonic waves have the power to rip a plane to shreds, but they can also fry the plane, just like a magnifying glass can fry an ant. It looks like this jet gave away to stress casued by the wave.

Any life long injury's for the pilot's

I think this one is a different view of the F-14 that was being filmed by the discovery (?) channel. They interviewed the pilots right after and it was a mechanical failure. BTW add the AV-8 Harrier to the USMC list of fighter jets they fly. I've done 20 years USN in Air Traffic and another 6 as a civilian as well as holding my own private pilots cert., aircraft mishaps are part of aviation but never to be taken lightly.

Retired USMC Aviator. We fly F/A 18, F-16, F-15, A10 Warthog, and many more,,, what else do you wanna' know.

Now thats how we induce what we like to call a spin at 756 miles per hour.
Sailors at the end are saying two parachutes, two parachutes.
Watch this again and you can clearly see when he banks, he loses control, flips a few times and ruptures a fuel tank as the cat breaks up. Nasty nasty nasty.
The Army now has Tomkitties? Kewl...

It appears to be catostrophic failure of an internal engine component which caused the explosion. The Army does not fly tactical jets. The Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force do.

Bob flew an F14 in the Army? The Army has lots of Carriers does it?

What were the sailors saying?

Which army was it?
Did the pilot/s survived?

I think that may have been caused from breaking the sound barrier you can see hints of that while flying past the ship?

Right into the Hell

more american stupido plz lol

More of this stupid army please LOL

is a well known internet fake

Well, that was my tax money well spent.

They deserved that
dumbshit mistake caused by idiotic american pilots showing off, so glad i never flew with morons like that!!!!
by ‎Satyr , 4th October

Wow! I don't know where you're from, but that was just about the most childish comment I can immagine. I doubt that you have ever flown a military aircraft. If you had, you would know that any gas turbine engine designed is subject to foreign object damage (FOD) which can lead to catostrophic failure of internal components. I'm glad you will never be flying anything that comes close to what the now retired F-14 Tomcat is capable of.

"WOW"lots of money up in smoke