Harrier jet crash

[k0smon]

@dudewtfpasswind ::: Strange how everyone turned around to look when the plane hit the water.

[bundycamp]

saw this on when vacations attack

[chazflyz]

This is very similar to pressing ALT + F4 on your keyboard.

[Justonn]

no try 175 million. i was an airforce officer for 18 yrs and trust me 15 million maybe paid for the fuel per yr

[ponmlk]

Accident happened at Lowestoft in UK. Cause of accident was pilot error. From the BBC article:

"An RAF board of inquiry has now established that Flight Lieutenant Cann had accidentally operated the controls for throttle and nozzle direction lever at the same time causing it to drop like a stone. "

[anthony2002able]

This isn't fake it's real nothing is fake about it get it

[727APACHE]

there goes 15 million in the ocean again....

[marcostj01]

What happened ? eh?

[JamesWTayt]

its real, i was there - it happened at the lowestoft airshow :)

[tryson1995]

What happened ????

[TheAeAs4458]

Obviously its real you can see its dynamics and its velocity as it crashes near the beach

[2solerio]

training exercise

[BarossaValleyMan]

"Holy fuck, that is a nice rack and Ass... Whoa Shit!"

[TheMachomaniac]

@777MrProphet fake and gay like you

[TheMachomaniac]

fake!

[TheMachomaniac]

fake and gay

[TheMachomaniac]

fake



[777MrProphet]

@TheMachomaniac ya those water effects look so fake and who would grain there work that much, fuck off and never leave a comment again, and if it is fake who gives a shit he did an awesome (if it is)

[anon1010100]

- Ok guys, its 4pm am off duty now.

[bloodysnipa]

No chopper gunner for you

[Rybread34]

That was an expensive mistake.

[theLXGproject]

CANNON BALL!!!

[iLoGiiCzZx]

This was at Lowestoft Air Festival

[ecam90]

Pilot: "Well my shift is done, b-bye!"

[jordanmnl83]

Jesus Xst ,how come ?

[C0ldWar45]

that sucks

[JAYDENPETROVSKI]

ur fired

[JAYDENPETROVSKI]

ur fires



[nick41324]

*sigh* our tax dollars at work

[Zombiespeed]

its not fake but why is he hanging at the beach

[ninjawest12]

Not fake. I was there. Good old Lowestoft. Aside from this and the Darkness, we don't have much going for us. At least not worth mentioned.

[eapdark]

got destracted by the bikinis

[wolf1010]

God bless Egress.

[Foc4ccin4]

I mean, how could people not see what was going on... the harrier is so much fucking loud O_O

[TailPress09]

*Pulls out stinger* Got cha now!!! >:)

[willmo912]

fail hahahahahahaha

[DumboM87]

That wasn't an accident. The pilots holiday just started, that's all.

[DerMessermann]

@DumboM87 best comment ever! u made my day dude!

[washie2305]

that pilot is gonna be in so much shit now!

[pistolpistol100]

Does British selapdadore vent trust vector malfunction to cause lack of lift

[Whitelock08]

it probs does have made in britain on bottom of it so that will explain what went wrong god i love being british lol

[maptlbh]

looked like a terrorist attack

[YesItsMartin]

harrier glitch

[mistaknista1907]

Out of fuel?

Bird in the Turbine?

Or just damm stupid pilot?

[john117dude]

THAT WAS AWESOME!!!!

[Briceguy]

stupid javlins

[LeetMonsta]

@Briceguy fucking stinger missiles -.-

[steelraptor22]

y did the harrier go down???

[UnleashedKane]

@steelraptor22 engine failure

[thehappyhermitcrab]

@UnleashedKane Agreed

[JFredUK]

@steelraptor22 Gravity. (0;}

[CricketPrime]

this is why our country is in debt.

[floydy22]

lmao

[MegaMystic98]

Pretty much throwing millons of dollars in the bin!

[liamuk08]

@MegaMystic98

Millions of Pounds, It's a British aircraft :)

[delroth156]

@liamuk08 no european they allpitched in

[XxJonesyxX7]

who shot down my harrier?

[BAKIRisDEbom]

yes it was

[VIETDragon96]

wasnt something like this on destroyed in seconds?

[TacticalNuke1337]

It's definately real. If you look, you can see the foam in the ocean from the exaust of the engine.

[deerdropper3030]

did you notice how it made NO waves to the ppl? i mean just sayin but thats not real

[CallOfDutySnipez]

Wow ur a fucking dumbass. This video has been on tv and it's not fucking fake

[amo1olsson]

@CallOfDutySnipez Oh it's been on tv? Wow, it must be real then, right?

[CallOfDutySnipez]

@amo1olsson the news bud. i saw the story

[elitestriker64]

FAIL pilot

[popsnacks2]

rule #1 dont make a mistake!

[marek0086]

those ejections are so brutal... they can break your spine if your not fit enough!

[valeriobert]

no it's not...cause the ejecting sit was obliqued forward to protect ur spine

[marek0086]

iv heard stories of broken/fractured spines caused by ejection seats.

[burreaucracy]

@marek0086 Initial acceleration is around 12-14g, which tends to have a compressive effect...

[marek0086]

@burreaucracy~ Ye man, you're pretty much EXPLODED out of the cockpit!

[randallrhoads3]

@marek0086 true that

[cmeshuffle187]

the reason for the accident is because of the hovering system either stuffed up or coz the pilot is weird

[tommy1504]

Rule 609. If you land in the winter, don't eat the yellow snow.

[david7992]

Rule 1. Dont parachute over an area you just bombed.

[jwawc]

Rule 2. But if the US just bombed the spot, then there's nothing left to be scared of, therefore feel free to parachute

[david7992]

Rule 3. If you already have 3 arms, and 8 fingers on each hand, Feel free to roam in the nuclear wasteland.

[M00NB34M5]

Rule 4. You can't kill time, you can only beat it to death and steal it's wallet....

[travdogger]

Rule 3. no bombing was involved

[jushayward]

Notice: at the beggining of the video, very few take any notice of the aeroplane hovering nearby.

[motorcrosser12]

so you are saying it's fake

[ex3cutiv3]

its real, that area is Harrier heaven, not many looks, novelty has worn off

[falsetto1990]

wat the fuk happened?

[Electricfox]

"An RAF board of inquiry has now established that Flight Lieutenant Cann had accidentally operated the controls for throttle and nozzle direction lever at the same time causing it to drop like a stone"

[QuasiRandomViewer]

From the same 18 December 2003 BBC News article: "Flight Lieutenant Cann, who is now flying again and based at RAF Cottismore, is said to have received advice following the loss of the plane in August 2002."

[applefly06]

lol thats funny for some reason unknown to me

[motorcrosser12]

lol yeh i was laughing too

[Humanimalist]

epic fail

[knightstalker1369]

We had the same thing at Cherry Point MCAS in the 80's. But the pilot ejected and the damn thing straightened out and hovered for like 10 more minutes without a pilot

[SPARTAN293]

ROFL

[Electricfox]

I read a tale of an RAF Harrier which suffered an engine failure over in West Germany, the pilot banged out, and then the engine of the Harrier spooled up again and the aircraft went on its merry way, with no pilot heading for Soviet airspace. GAF F-104s were scrambled put could not intercept, eventually the Harrier crashed into a field near the border XD

[emtee22]

Looks as if he tried to transition from hovering to forward flight. The nose of the aircraft went up and the water started to wash.

[CiaraProductions]

its funny how most of the kids are still playing and splashing in the water XD

[jackstan03]

that would be so random

[fourwayscottage]

AAAA.301006Z DEC 2008 The pilot may well have been put on a charge if he had been skylarking around..£50,000,000 !! Plus the fact his broken ankle may well have come if he hit the aircraft as it went down ? One can can well imagine what was said..At the court-martial...`A Captain always go down with his ship` !!.......AR.

[KJT922010T]

Ladurdale air show

[yvesgomez]

maybe the pilot wanted to swim and play with the childrens ?

[VCRAGE]

It freaking stalled... Wasnt the pilots fault LOL.

look carefully, u can see the jet cut out and the plane getting caught in cross wind.

[IrelandRugby1981]

that is so ironic

[pilotmanfisher92]

ok im sorry but i have to ask. ive seen this vid a couple times now and i dont think its a fake but i would like to know what he was doing. was it an airshow or what?

[sirsnagkwsn]

This was a display at Lowestoft in England. I was there with the RAFA at the time, and watched it happen. The pilot accidentally shut down the engine, and had no time to do anything other than eject. He came down onto the wing of the aircraft, and broke his ankle.

[OneSkiWonder]

I heard the aircraft choked on it's own fumes and then the engine's failed.

[rixille]

The harrier has had many pilots killed related to vtol shit, it had a flaw in the design.

[XChaoticXKittenX]

Lamest thing I ever seen. :D I like how the kids are just like "o.o.."

[beelzeboss1993]

watch the kids swimming as it crashes ha ha.

[sapperhutch]

There goes the RAF wasting the defence budget attending airshows and oops, they've lost a £50 million Harrier.

[JamboyStu]

The pilot must have been thinking "Yeah look what I can....Oh SHIT!"

[bloodyusernamedammit]

I think its so funny reading these comments. Well, while you argue about what went wrong and how many little korean men are in the back peddling i'll be having sex with a woman.

dorks.

[Spetetescion]

It's a fake

[bearlop]

To the idiot who dreamt up "its a fake"...Why talk when you know nothing. I was there and it was the Lowestoft airshow which waveney council hold every year. Think it was 2002 or thereabouts. NOT A FAKE you cock!!!

[casefc3s]

It's a trap!!

Sorry.. Admiral Akbar rules.

[mexchico17]

It does have some characteristic of fake vids: no sound, a crowd on one side, a disaster in another, a big event such as a crash, and the zoom in to show its not fake.

[Salguodelaev]

But look how they violently react to the 'sound' it makes when it hits the water. All attention is diverted to it.

[mexchico17]

"is that Mickey Mouse over there?" that line works every time lol

[shakenama]

Looks like he missed the tail in the water by inches. "Ouch .... my nuts !!!"

[james2529]

thats coming out of his wages

[favioalex]

todos moriran

[anonymousvidlover]

Don't forget to refuel next time...

[fairlanejay]

50 million dollar diving board!

[mblc40]

Thanks martin baker for your ejector seat.

[FlabWagger]

Who wouldnt hear a jet hovering 100 feet away from them? SERIOUSLY?!?!

[CompHelp2]

They would hear t but they wouldnt know it would crash would they?

[arbitar222]

al bet ya any money hes stareing up all the nice girls and showing off lol but then a gen it was an engne failure

[adamlinks]

He was just dying for a swim !

[incognito84]

@adamlinks You're going to hell, lol

[Bosanac1980]

wtf is he searchin near a beach

[SammyP321]

The engines failed......read about it in a mag :D

[Samm8420]

@SammyP321 Well you didnt because they didnt...

[falveys]

Made in England.

[yearight1970]

Yes so true, British Engineering has a lot to answer for

[P5YcHoM4N]

It was an air show, and the line for that show from memory was 1/2 mile - 1 mile. It was a long ass time ago and I'd need to dig out the guide for it to give you an accurate figure. But that is why.

[tommybrown2068]

probably showing off.....boy did THAT go wrong lol..

i wonder what his punishment was....

[Q3ToPBuZz]

It wasn't at Southend it was at Lowestoft.(I was watching it)

The pilot received a busted ankle.

The aircraft was recovered a few days later.

No body was in danger as the the aircraft was beyond the safety line that was marked out with markers.If I remember correctly the inquest came to the conclusion that it was pilot error.

[dean6553]

Yogi- what planet do you live on? If harriers had floats they wouldn't need aircraft carriers! Anyway, look at 12s- after the pilot has parted from his ejector seat the seat goes crashing down very close to something- good job it wasn't a little fishing boat, those seats are VERY heavy!

[YogiAndBooBooAndMe]

are you stupid? just because they can float doesn't mean they would dock and refuel and live litterally on sea in a fucking jet. Thats why they land on carriers. you moron.

[stapleford]

It was at Southend airshow in Essex and it was not an exercise

Think how we feel having these fly over the house every day going into RAF Cottesmore

Touch wood we have been ok but there have been a cpl crashed at nearby RAF Wittering, ususally when they get too close to the limit on fules. They don't have a very good un-powered glide angle!

[fowlerviking]

The attention span kids show - ...

"Unless you do something intersting like crash..we're not even intersted" !!

[YogiAndBooBooAndMe]

This is clearly a training exercise cuz there are orange floats marking an area around the plane. The Sea Harrier has the ability to float on water when it lands. I'm assuming thats what they were practicing. But when it was hovering it probably in-took too much heat and exhaust, that it was spewing out. Kinda like in TopGun, the part when Goose died.

[13171317]

mr know it all

[YogiAndBooBooAndMe]

lol. i just try to sound smart.

[13171317]

it's not working. lol

[YogiAndBooBooAndMe]

ok. let me go cut myself. lol

[YogiAndBooBooAndMe]

ha-ha i hope everybody gives me thumbs down.

[IRONSEAN7]

thats excellent!!! lol

[Zadren]

Er....no. Catastrophic LP compressor blade failure at an airshow. Basically, one or more of the blades at the front of the Pegasus engine has ripped off and been sucked back, tearing the rest of the engine apart behind it. It's not a Sea Harrier, it's a Harrier GR7. And no, they don't float. At all.

How do know this? Spannering them was my job for 6 years before I got posted.

[klesmer]

Thanks, Zadren. I always wondered what happened. That explains why it just gave up.

[rustyATV]

This was one of those "Watch this!" moments.

[01herbert]

When he came down with the Parachute he landed back on the fusealage and broke his Ankle....

[unluckyday94]

I know, why is it that when ever pilots eject, they always come back near the plane like a friggin' boomerang!

[tommybrown2068]

probably the vacuum in pressure caused by the falling object (plane in this case). kind of like with an explosion, air is pushed out rapidly but afterward air is sucked back in to the same space...

[amberts]

thats crazy as soon as it started to fall you can see the air from the jet hit the water. awsm

[LeoK777]

there go my tax dollars...

[Kresho77]

What happened here was the pilot bumped the thrust vane control, shifting the thrust to straight back. Usually what happens when flying and reading a Penthouse magazine at the same time...duh

[noxxxrated]

Well if he had just been reading he wouldn't have bumped the valve. I bet he had his hand on the wrong stick if he was reading penthouse.

[mark58320]

yeah i agree with idiot49 somthing went wrong

[idiot49]

We all can talk about what happened, but I bet you one thing for sure. Something went wrong.

[silaqe]

you are so smart , i admire you

[systemhacker07]

he jumped out and landed again in jet LOL

[breakfastisready]

Actually you are ALL wrong! The Harrier has 4 frontloaded preburning bunson burner johnson valves which feature a compressed air nutra-system for vectoring and pilot nourishment. The new ones include a directional drilling flank shaft with heat-shielded ball bearings.

It's all about ball-bearings man!

[devarun1]

hahaha nice 1 lol

[breakfastisready]

nice to find someone with a sense of humor...

If he had not survived I would not be joking about it. I'm sure it was pretty hairy. peace.

[ProtoJ18]

ha aha ha ha....no no nice post

[CaptHog]

Th3C0br4, it's basically the same as the AV-8B II. The report on this accident says that it's a GR.7 which is the Royal Navy/RAF version to the USMC version, with the only difference being the avionics. You can find the accident information on a website for military airshows titled: 'Harrier crash at Lowestoft Airshow'

[georgaalty]

As stated, it uses four rotating nozzles to provide the thrust, vectored downwards, its sitting on 4 columns of air - until the engine fails..

[CaptHog]

hey monkey, unless you know the facts about an aircraft, don't attempt to tell people about it. The AV-8B is a Subsonic attack aircraft which uses vectored thrust by rotating 4 nozzles (2 on each side) to direct the airflow. The engine is a NON-afterburning Rolls-Royce Pegasus 11-61 (F402-RR-408) turbofan.

[Th3C0br4]

I don't think this video is of an AV-8B. You are however correct that no Harrier variant has afterburners.

[jmo21210]

CaptHog, you and Monkey are both wrong... The AV-8V has no vectored thrust or nozzles. The AV-8V is powered by sorcery! MAGIC!! It's a necromantic attempt of mortal damnation! This plane is the DEVIL!!!