[Tennessee_Bob]

I don't think it was an ingestion. Only smoke trail off the engines came as he started to try to pull it out - kind of like when you started applying power on an F100-100. It was a combustion trail, not a debris trail. Judging from the comments being made by the talking heads and analysts, I'd say it was too heavy an aircraft for low-level aerobatics, combined with a low budget military (read it as crappy maintenance), and not enough training time for the aircrew. A maintenance and aircrew failure.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

I agree. Not too too bad of an aircraft, but they rushed it out the door without being prepared to fly/support it. Just as the Saudi Air Force; if we left, they wouldnt have anyone qualified to work on their F16s or fly them.