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To: marcusmaximus

Keeping combat aircraft properly maintained is hard work.


8 posted on 09/13/2022 8:47:29 AM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: The Pack Knight

It likely is a maintenance issue, although a formation departure like that can lead to a wingtip vortex ingestion caused surge in the left engine, followed by the yaw/roll to the left that you see. It’s too low to recover so bam, into the grass he goes...

Just one of many possibilities.


12 posted on 09/13/2022 8:59:21 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: The Pack Knight

“Keeping combat aircraft properly maintained is hard work.”

Absolutely.


26 posted on 09/13/2022 10:24:55 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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