Posted on May 26, 2016
Aviators survive with minor injuries in fighter-jet collision
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My comment on this incident from another post:
Man, F-18 pilots are the luckiest (or most skillful) in the world. The Canadian F-18 pilot that ejected from a rollover roughly 200 feet from the ground. The F-18 crew in Virginia Beach that took off, immediately experienced an engine problem, shut it down (they have two), called it in, began procedures to turn around to land, began dumping fuel, experience engine #2 failing (something that has never happened before or since in the F-18, a simultaneous double-engine failure), shut IT down, begin looking around for a place to ditch, see a school, decide they can't ditch yet, stay with the plane until roughly 30 feet from the ground when there was nothing left to do, and finally eject...and both lived with no fatalities on the ground...in an entire process that was ROUGHLY TWENTY FIVE SECONDS from start to finish. (If that doesn't impress you, think of that decision chain in a life-and-death situation). And now, these guys today, all 4 safe.
Someone likes F-18 pilots.
Man, F-18 pilots are the luckiest (or most skillful) in the world. The Canadian F-18 pilot that ejected from a rollover roughly 200 feet from the ground. The F-18 crew in Virginia Beach that took off, immediately experienced an engine problem, shut it down (they have two), called it in, began procedures to turn around to land, began dumping fuel, experience engine #2 failing (something that has never happened before or since in the F-18, a simultaneous double-engine failure), shut IT down, begin looking around for a place to ditch, see a school, decide they can't ditch yet, stay with the plane until roughly 30 feet from the ground when there was nothing left to do, and finally eject...and both lived with no fatalities on the ground...in an entire process that was ROUGHLY TWENTY FIVE SECONDS from start to finish. (If that doesn't impress you, think of that decision chain in a life-and-death situation). And now, these guys today, all 4 safe.
Someone likes F-18 pilots.
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Saw this on the news this morning. Amazing no one was hurt....Superb job in a catastrophic situation. Missed the school, read a candy wrapper on the ground then ejected......Good Job and an Atta' Boy for all involved. Expensive though!
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