F-16 Crash

[Twistingnether]

I won't comment on whether he was retarded or not, but forgetting to doublecheck the machinery he was piloting is kind of.. Well, stupid, and especially for a Thunderbird of his status.

He had forgotten to consider the MSL (mean-sea-level) altitude of location at which he took off from. He needs around close to 800 meters in altitude to perform a split s such as the one he was attempting, and as far as I can see, he was only close to 500.

Nevertheless, the presence of mind to eject was mental.

[Racketeerof89]

Was that part of the show....

[GhostNThaMachine]

First off, this guy is/was a Thunderbird, which means he had a LOT of flight hours under his belt. Second, the F16 is completely fly-by-wire, meaning that if its electronics systems go down, it is unflyable. So I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that he was a "bad pilot." Especially since he had the presence of mind to eject right before the plane slammed into the ground at well over 100mph.

[aidendarylbf]

O.M.G

[MikeofWyoming]

KIDS!!! Do not go to stileproject!!!

[sft219]

great aircraft but the pilot is stupid!!!noob!

[jochemfilm]

jha hoor dumpert

[petey815]

YOUTUBE!

[HanZie82]

Dees rookt zware shag, komt veel meer rook vanaf...

[dikkesjappo]

dumpert :)

[Janneke18]

Dumpert, dit was zeker geen schaalmodel...

[TheNeoJer]

DUMPERTS

[ThaBeerio]

DUMPERT!

[OudenNieuwAbuse]

Komt die dumpert meeting:D

[darkfireblade]

DUMPERT!!

[dunzvids]

DUMPERT!

[Sjores87]

DUMPERT!

[deljaboss]

objasnio je hahahha :))

[Koldness99]

just goes to show, don't blame the plane

blame the pilot

[rastamusic227]

i dont know if this was a new display pilot but it seems he didnt know the force of the engine was reduced... dumpass

[elijahinky]

on second look, he was ejecting, my bad

[elijahinky]

close my ass, look how hard he comes outa the seat and hits the canopy

[ibanezegen]

he was SO close to recovering from that dive!

[EarthsEagle47]

calm down you cock sucking little kid

[naebklang]

he just got outh with parachute

[dementor338]

That retarded pilot!

[simeon5541]

Is he survive ?

[SoyElrebel]

this is no sukhoi

I can't still believe he is still alive

[QCBT]

its funny cause you cant see any panic or stress in his body language

[flyingtrashbin]

pilots are trained ever not to panic. cause if you panicked - you're dead.

[flyingtrashbin]

also i think at 0:18 his left hand moved to the ejection handle, guess he knew about the bitter end to that particular moment

[TheJunkhouse]

last week i went ro the dayton air show and saw the thunder birds it was awesome

[flyingtrashbin]

thats a clearly pilots error, he made it too low in a perfect visibility and all weather conditions, no excuse really, everyone could see its too low. a professional pilot like that cant rely on altimeter only

[thinChips]

Aerobatic pilots set there altimeters to show the absolute altitude of the field there at. This guy had his set for the wrong altitude. At least that's what my professor told me.

[randomdude10010]

The problem here was that his altimeter was set wrong. He was trying to put a standard split-S and come out of it just above the ground ( 200-150 ft) but his altimeter was not set to take into account the altitude above see level. usually not a problem since pilots don't use that altimeter so much, but here the pilot looks bad even though it was a techs fault!

[ratchetgye]

i have seen that before on discovery channal

[anomalik13]

долбоёб зачем самолёт разбил дурак...

[Benjiben69]

He was probably screaming under his helmet and mask.

[spshecot]

LMAO

[trimaran1903]

Ho... This guy is lucky... he ejected like 1second before the impact :P... look at his arm pulling the ejection button :P...

It's also funny how relax he look... if i was his I would have yell or spasm... OR WTF haaaaaaaaaaaaa.

anyway...

[titans1984]

Yer tax dollars at work

[Rinocerente]

Yeah.

Still though those things are worth like Millions, if not billions of dollars.

[bobbycas420]

$300,000. It's pretty cheap, but the plane was designed to be cheaper than the F-15s

[Starwarsfansitecrs]

uhhh didnt th f-16 come out way before the f-15?

[erikinchains]

o wait he ejected, huh?

[erikinchains]

SHIT was that the pilot flippin nd stuff from like 1:03 to 1:05 in front on the fire nd stuff???

[AirlinePilot2008]

It was an incorrect altimeter setting that lead to this. From the cockpit, it appeared to him that he was actually higher but in fact, the aircraft was actually lower then what the altimeter read.

[tubelogin1]

yup, them yank rednecks at it again...

nice flying there, war happy sons of bitches... LOL

[ThatKidIsDUMB]

Thunder Birds <3

[somepoeplejustsuck]

nolifemerc: even a person with no jumps could see his altitude is not enough. And he obviously was aware of situation, otherwise wouldn't ejected himself before the crash.

[nolifemerc]

i cannot belive he didnt see that, even me with only 9 parajumps can see thats too low.

[weeruz]

You dudes saying he's an idiot and american and so on.. You are the idiots.. This is a very hard maneuver to pull off. A single miscalculation and it ends like in the video.. And of course he is showing off ... It's an airshow.

[jamesonfrommyspace]

yeah and he risked his life for people like us to be entertained

so we should be thankful he knew what he was doing

[owenman123]

he must have had an electrical fault or stalled it.

[duvasgabre]

BUUUUAAAAAHHHHHHH!@!!! Stupid Fuckin CUNT! Wanna show off, get da biches? Well, suck some DICK now, you motherfucker, cocksucker!

[sayidkabuli]

did the pilot die?

[MtNtHaKinG]

wait let me guess the pilot was american wat a dumbass

[roh8waoe8c5n7]

wow...... that hurt ..... well that last trick was if the plane had no wings :)

[ninjahua]

thunderbird?

[Frankcar11]

it was mechanical failed or it was pilot's mistake cause it was too slow to fly in low lattitud

[Icarusdecending82]

This is what happend: The airshow was in Mountain Home Idaho. The Thunderbirds train in Las Vegas. The pilot set his altitude indicator to the initial altitude of the runway at Nellis (Vegas). The pilot started the manuever at too low of an altitude and he realized it when he was already heading for the ground. I was there...giving tours in the AWACS when one of our crew members told me it crashed...I was in complete disbelief.

[Butcher851]

@Frankcar11

Pilot error

[keffje007]

@Frankcar11 he made wrong calculations

[keffje007]

@Frankcar11 he made wrong calculations still people need to stop saying he was a bad pilot he just made a mistake and unfortunately for him it was one that let him crash

[kylecrs]

Man that pilot got out just in the nick of time.

[Squirrel9901]

lucky bastard ejected just in time

[Ge4ce100]

moron _-_

[albertinodiprima]

great!!!!!

[demonofragriz]

ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!

[wizardhuey]

bush gonna die , i gonna kill him

[timstuco]

shut the hell up

[devildog881966]

As I heard the story, it was a mechanical malfunction.  The pilot punched out safely.

[dangerardo80]

so fuked up!

[2fast2jumpChris]

twat is dead

[iheartmaia]

He's american, but he's also human and humans make mistakes. Rodney got it right, he was used to practicing this maneuver at sea level but he realized he made a mistake and veered the aircraft away from the crowd and punched out. Last I heard, he had a desk job at the pentagon.

[rodneystar]

kinda true though, he was used to practicing the manouvre somewhere else, which was closer to sea level, and he just forgot how high up the ground was. so really it's a case of stupid american hahahah. not a general comment mind, but this particular american did a very stupid thing.

[Bloodshaded]

holy fuck

[Tralgit]

stupid comment

[lebthug111]

stupid american

[BushmasterGuy77]

And the Lebanese Military never has crashes? Alrighty then....

[commandro]

they never had an aircraft :p

[rnlmc23para]

no they didnt they only get shot down they cant fly

[daaaveint]

LOL, do they even have a military?