Problematic with a single engine jet. I’m assuming that he lost the engine. Sixteen to one glide ratio. I wonder if the stick is supposed to do something automatically on ejection.... pull up and stall out, maybe? Seems like the last time I heard of one going down was on takeoff at an airshow with a relatively short runway. They said it would have been able to land on a long runway
Looks like it.
The shot in the vid showing the building it hit looks like no forward motion, it was just falling straight down.
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No, the stick/flight control system doesn’t do anything upon ejection. The pilot will usually pull the nose up and get slow BEFORE ejecting if there’s no danger of the jet flying on too far and hitting somewhere/something with people, he wouldn’t want to do that in this case. Initial reports (can’t always be trusted) said that he was having hydraulic problems and ejected due to controllability problems. The seat going out pushes the nose down.