Ok all you freepers with a whole lot more knowledge of fighter jets than I have. What do you think would happen to one of our fighters in a similar mishap?
Fake news? In some of the video it is near the center line of the runway when the fire crew arrives, it is fully on the pavement in the still pictures, then suddenly, it is in the grass.
First thing....they’d find out pretty quick who released the video....
This is what happens. Sorry, but I don’t know how to link.
Cant say, but I did see a C-5 engine separate from the plane just after take off. Not a big deal, the plane continued to climb and went around and landed. The engine landed in a field. No one was hurt, but I’ll bet it cost a few million to fix. That would have been at Altus AFB around 1980.
An Israeli F-15 lost a complete wing and managed to land safely. It must have taken extraordinary skill but part of the reason might have been that the body on both sides had a large amount of lift.
Another F-15 had the canopy shatter and the pilot blinded. Another F-15 which was flying with him guided him down by telling him what to do. This was at Eglin AFB.
What’a J-15??
There some inconsistencies in the video.
When he stops he is on the runway and the firewagons are responding to flames under the fuselage. In the stills he has his nosewheel on the grass and is not near the runway. How did he get there since they are still foaming the plane?
In an emergency US planes would be vectored away from large buildings and population centers as much as possible. The vids show him low and slow over some pretty densely populated areas.
Some of the video is repeated although we are led to believe it is one string.
I think this is two different videos intended to depict one occurrence. Most of the takeoff, flight and landing looks nominal and may have been recreated and spliced for the drama. At 0.11 the forward looking video shows a strike and the tower(??) video at 0:51 may show FOD ingestion on the airplane on the right. Same plane????
Also there are a few shots of the pilot from different angles. Not normal for an operational cockpit to be cluttered with cameras that happen to get "the shot". Maybe a go pro moving around could do that. IMO The stills show the actual aftermath after it has a "happy ending".
Chinese engines catch fire and explode without the help of birds.
Every 200 hours whether you need it or not.
Democratic countries don’t have exploding birds.
Im actually impressed, everything seemed professional not a shit show in any fashion.
Military engines, for all their power, are somewhat fragile. Daily FOD (foreign object damage) walkdowns on the flight apron are an all hands effort where you slowly walk shoulder to shoulder looking for ANY loose object on the ground.