ANOTHER F-16 CRASHES IN UTAH DESERT

KSL tv5 | 13 Nov 02 | KSL tv5

[JRandomFreeper]

Just remember to thaw the chicken.

/john

[Colonel Jim]

But a sweet girl she is!!!

[Tennessee_Bob]

IIRC, it's three on each, unless you want to count the missile rails on the wingtips.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

2.5lb thawed pheasant from Michigan!

[Light Speed]

Hard points on the new Israeli F-16I

[RedBloodedAmerican]

So, does seeing these pics make you miss working on them?

[Tennessee_Bob]

Honestly, yes they do.

Do they make me miss it enough to consider working on them now? Almost. Almost...

[Cvengr]

Obvious wonderings if this was an accident or terror related due to the familial ties.

[agincourt1415]

We had 3 fatal accidents in 3 years at Hahn Air Base, all of them CFIT Accidents, Controlled Flight Into Terrain, it happens, and nearly happens to all fighter pilots, the Commander of the Air Forces in Desert Storm almost got killed on a range in his early flying career. Not everybody is a Chuck Yeager.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Well, let me be the first to start the fued....

I don't think Chuck is that great of a pilot, anyhow. :)

let the flames begin!

[Tennessee_Bob]

Then again, the hardest point I ever ran into was the speedbrakes. Sucks when you're washing the jet and you're cleaning the ventrals and someone opens up a brake and doesn't warn you - you turn around and BAM slam right into the thing. Hurts real good.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

I get your point!

[B4Ranch]

Thank you, Bob.

[Tennessee_Bob]

You're welcome, B4 - so tell me - why the unusual question?

[RedBloodedAmerican]

sshhhhh....he's building an F16!

[montag813]

Another victim of the RODS!!!!

[Man of the Right]

Sounds like Clinton-era maintenance and training standards are still in force.

[JusticeLives]

Political Junkie Too said:

"I wonder if the rash of crashes means the military is training harder than ever for something."

Or, maybe *someone* is playing with the remote control.

[cousinkoala]

More intense training for Iraqi invasion .

Also , This aircraft has a history of getting pilots into blackouts because of intense High G-forces . A third possibility : The f-16 is a fly by wire plane ( the F-117 stealth fighter black jet is also fly by wire , and made from F-16 parts ), which means it's airlerons and other flight control systems work mostly if not all electrically , not hydrolically .

Thirdly , this plane has been thought to have small pieces of metal or screws get into the wiring and cause crashes .

[cousinkoala]

Glad for oportunity to ask a real jet tech a question . What does it meaan to eject inside the envelope ? From aviation fan cousinkoala