Posted on 06/21/2017 10:12:40 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A pilot ejected himself from an F-16 after it caught fire at Ellington Field.
According to the Houston Airport System, the jet caught fire in the process of taking off.
The Houston Fire Department has crews on the scene to assist with the incident.
The condition of the pilot is unknown. He has been taken to the hospital.
The airport has been shut down as crews investigate.
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FOD, I’d guess.
That’s one way to phase them out.
Idiot anchor talking about difficulty of ejecting at low altitude. Guess he never heard of the zero-zero ejection seat used in US fighters. There is fake news and then there is ignorant inaccurate news.
Ejecting on the ground is not a good idea, but if you have to.............
There is always danger in an ejection no matter how far off the ground you are.
Same goes true for democrats and elections.
I'd give the credit to the rocket-catapult.
Ejecting is never good and only a last resort. That being said, the seat in the F-16 and other tactical aircraft is called the ACES II and was designed for 0-0 ejections. In other words the pilot can achieve a full canopy from an aircraft that has zero altitude and zero airspeed. I worked that particular seat (on the A-10) when I was in the Air Force.
When ya gotta go, ya gotta go!.........
Ejections have consequences......
A pilot ejected himself from an F-16 after it caught fire at Ellington Field.
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Who else is he going to eject?
My older brother(RIP), was a Crew Chief (F-86)at McDill in the 50s when a LT., found out the hard way the Ejection Seats weren’t that kind.
Wasn’t his plane!
Well, it’s a transitive verb, so you can’t just dispense with the object.
“Self defenistrate!”
There was a large red X painted on the ceiling at NAS Jacksonville. Story was an electrician made a mistake and caused the seat to eject and it smashed the guy into the ceiling and killed him. Don’t know if this really happened or it was just a story to scare the students.
Well, you are dispensing *from* an an object ;)
Years ago the AF’s Tactical Air Command (TAC) published a safety magazine called “TACATTACK”. The last page contained safety statistics, number of accidents, etc. One statistic listed was “Number of Ejections” followed by “Number of Successful Ejections.” Usually the numbers were not the same.
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