Incredible photos from F18 accident in Canada ( Lethbridge )

[EE_]

If you haven't seen it before...
Talk about a close call!

Look---> http://hivets.com/incredible-photos-from-last-fridays-accident-in-canada-lethbridge/


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxMLkEYgT78

[willie pete]

just wasn't his day to check out....looks to me he was flying too low and slow, then his wings went perpendicular to the ground, IF your perpendicular to the ground, you'd better be hauling ass otherwise you loose all lift......

http://youtu.be/ReSm7r45_ds

[Glass]

thats good. A no cost accident. It's all turned out for the best.

[freespirit]

thats good. A no cost accident. It's all turned out for the best.

...nothing a little duct tape and some binder twine couldn't fix...and i know we got more rubber bands around here somewhere...lol

[Neuro]

I think the pilot could have saved the situation and the plane, he should have sensed at around 2 seconds prior that things were going out of hand, if he had given it full throttle at that time, nothing would have happened, IMO... Considering the music that was playing maybe he had been instructed to crash the plane? Hard to figure out a purpose of it though...

[BrewTech]

That exact crash scenario has happened more than once.

[midnight rambler]

'High alpha' = high angle of attack (that nose up appearance, when you fly on any commercial jet airliner you experienced some angle of attack, you can sense this when walking up or down the aisle while in the cruise phase of the flight)

He was outside the envelope* (low speed, low altitude, high AOA and high AOA tends toward instability anyway) when the a/c bobbled in the wind, which resulted in it falling like a rock. As for the notion of full blower (WOT w/ AB) saving the a/c, it takes a few seconds for the turbines to spool up to 100%, especially at a low air speed, and as slow as he was going was very close to compressor stall (MIC jets suffer compressor stalls when little or no air is being force inducted, something which very, very rarely happens to Russian jets [like never], which is why Russian pilots can do routinely do tail slides without any fear of compressor stalls).

*speed and altitude are what give you your 'safety envelope'

[midnight rambler]

Here's a video of a MiG-29 executing an even higher AOA at low speed/altitude, however this one suffered a bird strike while vulnerable leading to a turbine failure (note parked Beechcraft Starship at end of video) -


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh3c3U5ajWE

[midnight rambler]

On another note, this is precisely what happens when pilots fail to pre-flight the aircraft (TWO 'test pilots' in this instance - controls had anti-gust locks in place), what is it with these Canucks?? -


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YydkHy2P0dU&feature=endscreen&NR=1

[Horn]

Well if you can laugh at any of these it'd be this one.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzD4tIvPHwE

[Neuro]

Well if you can laugh at any of these it'd be this one.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzD4tIvPHwE
yes that is a major WTF!