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Man Accidentally Pulls Eject Lever While Flying in Jet
Daily Mail ^
| 10/02/09
| FOX
Posted on 11/02/2009 7:18:45 PM PST by Doogle
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To: Secret Agent Man
New phrase: Premature Ejectulation ..not that "new"...I heard it while going through EGRESS class systems back in the late 60's
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posted on
11/02/2009 7:57:16 PM PST
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Doogle
New for me, wasn’t born then.
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posted on
11/02/2009 7:57:54 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: NRA2BFree
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posted on
11/02/2009 8:00:48 PM PST
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Doogle
I’m not familiar with it, but I would believe it. If the AC got stuck on full hot, it was an emergency procedure. Don’t remember what the steps were for dealing with it...
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posted on
11/02/2009 8:01:57 PM PST
by
Mr Rogers
(I loathe the ground he slithers on!)
To: Doogle
I bet he needed a new pair of undies.
To: Doogle
The fault lies with engineering, not the passenger. The eject button was disguised as a cigarette lighter.
They should have never let this guy design it in the first place.
To: Doogle
Winner of the inaugural Dede Scozzafava award.
Cheers!
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posted on
11/02/2009 8:15:03 PM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: F15Eagle
Probably 100 meters which would be 328 feet. Rounded down rather than up.
To: NRA2BFree
I’m sure he left a different kind of trail...
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posted on
11/02/2009 9:33:39 PM PST
by
scott7278
(Obama, Klaatu barada nikto!)
To: Doogle
Don't touch the yellow handle!
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posted on
11/02/2009 10:00:51 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
(No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session. I AM JIM THOMPSON)
To: Doogle
HOLD MUH BEER...
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posted on
11/02/2009 10:05:51 PM PST
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: trumandogz
Let me tell you...if that were me pulling that lever the newspaper headline could just as well have read “Man pulls lever, craps pants”.
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posted on
11/02/2009 10:14:20 PM PST
by
Nik Naym
(I remember when the United States was a free country. I feel old.)
To: NRA2BFree
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posted on
11/02/2009 11:16:22 PM PST
by
baltimorelady
(My response to VanDeKoik)
To: F15Eagle
How did they measure 320 feet?320 feet = 100 meters in jolly old England.
To: Doogle
I heard it while going through EGRESS class systems back in the late 60's Did they show you that picture of the debris on the hangar roof that used to be an airman?
Wilum
307TFS 66-70
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posted on
11/03/2009 5:52:16 AM PST
by
Wilum
(Never loaded a nuke I didn't like)
To: Wilum
...no,but saw the results first hand in a revetment in 1969,...I think it was with either the 433th or 497th TFS...no sure
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posted on
11/03/2009 5:59:51 AM PST
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Doogle
Ok, this story sounds phony. First of all there are safety devices on the ejection buttons/levers. Secondly, there is the small matter of a canopy between the pilot/passenger and the outside world. Blasting through the canopy would be fatal to most people. The canopy has to be blown off, then several other procedures have to occur(depending on the model of aircraft)before you can eject.
Accidental discharge? I think not.
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posted on
11/03/2009 6:01:47 AM PST
by
calex59
(We want our constitution back, and we will get it back.)
To: calex59
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posted on
11/03/2009 6:10:36 AM PST
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: calex59
Some aircraft have seats that go though the canopy. I’m not sure about this particular model.
To: F15Eagle
I would think it would be “approximately 300+ feet into the air”. More likely it would be “approximately 100 mteres into the air”, and an editor thought “approximately 328 feet” looked slightly odd and made a revision.
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posted on
11/03/2009 7:20:22 AM PST
by
Oztrich Boy
(Levi Johnston: because Joey Buttafuco is so last century)
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