Posted on 12/09/2025 3:03:13 PM PST by Apparatchik
Thanks for going full retard on us.
The seat safeties were obviously not in place.
A picture, if you would. These kind of seats are designed to escape the damaged fuselage in seconds,, lifting the aircrew to over 300feet, so the chute would deploy correctly.
To pop out inside “ the hangar”, is wiley coyote smashing up into the overhanging rock ledge...before you can count to “2”!
My condolences to the families impacted.
I hope you’re not upside down on the deck! 8~)
блядь!
You can say that again!
They should have thought about baseball
Only Ivan. They must have pulled a half dozen pins for them to eject.
Gay lovers perhaps wanting shoot their wad it all over the hanger.
Desk pop!
Depending on the plane, pilots or crew chiefs would set the pins for the ejection lever while the plane was on the tarmac. Egress would set additional rail pins and CAD/PAD pins (Cartridge Activated Device / Propellant Actuated Device) if the plane was going in for certain types of maintenance.
There was a fatal ejection from a T-6 trainer in May of 2024 where the instructor improperly inserted the pin and had undone his strap before having the strap catch the ejection lever. As reported in this instance, not all ejection seats are "I go, we both go." as the student was never ejected.
https://theaviationist.com/2025/08/02/fatal-t-6a-accidental-ejection-aaib-report/
Yeah, that zero/zero seat isn’t gonna save you when there’s a roof overhead…
SAME THOUGHT
And we are supposed to FEAR these guys?
Something stinks about this story. Ejecting is not a simple as pushing a button?
WTS, I have been wondering when massive increased ops tempo would start having an effect on Russian aircraft and crews.
Appears it has
“Boris, what red button is for?”
Most likely he had a screwdriver in his back pocket. In the USAF we were shown a movie of the results when the screwdriver catches the release mechanism inside a hanger. It was gruesome but got the point across.
Most likely he had a screwdriver in his back pocket.
Where did he get the orange juice?
I was on an aircraft carrier back in the early 80's. We had a couple of accidents that led to the I go, we both go change for ejecting. If my memory serves me correctly the change was made if there was any chance the ejection seat rocket motor could kill an adjacent pilot directly or by damaging the other pilot's ejection system causing death. It was either the 4 seat EA-6B or S-3.
That sounds like they kept the “I go, we both go” ejection for side-by-side seating, which would make sense that there was a chance for the adjacent crew to be injured or the remaining equipment to be damaged.
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