Posted on 10/21/2014 4:11:17 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Two F-16s of the Oklahoma Air National Guard were involved in a midair collision during a training exercise in Kansas with one pilot safely ejecting.
Military officials confirmed the collision took place around 14:20 Monday afternoon. One of the jets (F-16C Block 42E #89-2019) crashed into a field, but the pilot was able to eject.
The other plane safely returned to its base in Tulsa, but reports state that it needed to be towed after exiting the active runway. "The tip of one of the jet’s wings had broken off and it had a 4-inch diameter hole in the fuselage," said Michael Atchison, chief of Tulsa Fire House 51.
The two aircraft were originally part of a four-ship training flight. The jets are assigned to the 138th Fighter Wing based at the airport.
The Kansas Highway patrol said the crash site is large and is west of Kansas Highway 99 and south of Harvest Road, near Moline.
Colonel Max Moss with the Oklahoma National Guard said neither pilot was seriously injured. He also stated that one of the F-16’s returned safely to its base in Tulsa while the second crashed and burned in a field in southern Kansas.
While the pilot of the crashed F-16 was taken to McConnell Air Force Base hospital in Wichita for evaluation, he is not believed to be seriously injured.
Immediately following the National Anthem, 2 F-16s made a flyover of Kaufman Stadium in Kansas City. I’d say that you nailed it.
you See the water vapor condensing above the wings? That is from very low pressure... that aircraft has a good attitude but a high vertical velocity... towards the dirt.
File this one under: “Sh!t Happens when you are a GI.”
Glad it all ended well. Have seen way too many that didn’t.
Lost airplane? Lotsa money.
Lost Pilot? Lotsa money PLUS SUM!
Waiting to see if Granpa Pettibone checks in on this one.
HEEHEEHEE!
wonder if he could have initiated extension of the landing gear...
F-16 ping.
Thank God the pilots survived.
Chaos theory follows airmen more than most — large numbers of flights increases probabilities of problems logarithmacally.
You can do everything right and still have a wrong result due to the literally millions of variables that cross the flights.
The ACES II seat is amazing.
That’s what I was thinking, too. The fuselage is largely intact and the broken off tail is really close to the rest of the jet. I saw the aftermath of an F-15 that pancaked flat in (the one that broke in half near St. Louis). Same deal.
I wouldn’t recommend that. It wouldn’t be worth the jail time.
Knew him.
Honestly, arrogant beyond the usual fighter pilot arrogance.
Screwed up big time, mis-read altitude by 1,000’. . .hence no altitude to complete the maneuver.
Impact like that is not unusual, as the jet was likely in a stall, basically flopping down and not too much forward.
I wasn’t commenting upon the lack of an impact or debris trail, the image just looks out of scale... miniature. It really looks like a model plane burning on a lawn. It must be the lens used by the news crew.
IIRC, that aircraft was bottoming out of a dive. Unfortunately, the bottom of the dive was a further 20 or 30 feet below ground level.
I see. No worries.
Cheers my FRiend.
F-16s, They don’t call ‘em LAWN DARTS for nuttin’ !
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