when he went full knife edge the lift of wing went to horizontal plane (this force turns plane) and literally lost lift and can correct to some degree with full elevator. He should endorse a adult diaper and put logo on aircraft and he could say "Crapon is the best adult diaper in the business and i just wish I had been wearing one when this happened"
I feel sorry for his wife. Who herself is/was an Australian air force doctor specialising in aviation medicine. At the end of the day she must be on the verge of a nervous breakdown watching her husband do this. And this was a guy who faced surface to air missiles flying over Iraq with the Americans in 2003. I hope his luck doesn't run out again.
I love these armchair pilots that think they can give opinions on how he saved the plane! He is a skilled pilot who got very lucky....... thats it! He put the plane into a position it should have never been in and it responded by not wanting to fly anymore.....STALLING...... never a good thing.
Great skill I grew up around small planes when my dad was a pilot and he would take me to the bar at the airport and heard pilots stories about how they crashed and how some recovered nothing as bad ass as this!
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Years ago a cop mate told me he was present at an outdoor beach event,the afternoons highlight was an aerobatic display.Pilot screwed up failing to pull up hit the water disintegrating the plane into confetti.He was asked to go with other cops in a small boat to try and locate the pilots body.Searching for a while they noticed a commotion on the water near their boat, closer examination revealed it to be fish feeding on the pilots brain floating just under the surface.
If he was such a great pilot, he wouldn't have got himself into this situation to start with, he admits breaking some basic rules so that makes him dangerous especially in this comp.
@grossentitzens we all make mistakes. Plus, "Matt Hall was the most successful rookie in Red Bull Air Race World Championship history with 3rd place overall in 2009" - so if Matt Hall isn't a great pilot, then all the others are complete shit aye? And he says he breaks his OWN rule. On top of that, he was Australia’s “Fighter Pilot of the Year” in 1997 and was the Royal Australian Air Force Fighter Combat (Top Gun) instructor prior to competing.
@grossentitzens I guess you are a robot then. Every human does mistakes. No one is perfect, and if you think someone can't make mistakes you are disillusioned. It is in human nature to do mistakes. Every fucking person in the whole fucking world does mistakes. You can do something right 99.9999999999% of the time, but there are still the 00.0000000001% chance that you make a mistake. Start think a bit.
@grossentitzens ???? You don't have a clue what you're talking about. He is one of the best pilots on this planet and when your competing you're on the edge of control and chaos.. That's with every racing machine..
@grossentitzens ???? You don't have a clue what you're talking about. He is one of the best pilots on this planet and when your competing you're on the edge of control and chaos.. That's with every racing machine..
He would have died with an impact at that speed right? I wonder if there are emergency speed boats waiting for if there is a crash. Amazing the drag of hitting the water didnt pull the nose down! Also, Red Bull is loaded!!
the only thing that kept him from going into the water, is that he kept the prop out of the water only by a little bit. if the prop would have hit the water, he would have been in the water.
Nothing to "figure out". He G-stalled the wing, brought the wings level, which unloaded the wing, and thus kept the wing flying. The "lucky" part for him was that he was in a a/c with amazing power to weight ratio that kept the wing flying with out having to go nose down. He would not have survived in a C-182 or even a Cirrus. I'm glad he's okay and can continue to entertain us with his flying prowess.
Some day one of this guys will have a serious accident the last year one of them hit a pelican during the race and end the fligth with a hole in the tail.
@NZPilot4 You sound like a raged religious nut who doesn't get that the man saved himself not god. Skyline just explained why and you call him simple minded, can you get a dumber?
GOD (Whom dosent even exist ) had nothing to do with it. It comes down to amazing engineering and an even more amazing pilot with great great training. Well done man, impressive save!
My only question is HOW did that plane survive, you can't attest to pilot skill... Maybe it's the skill of the designers, and luck that he just barely grazed the surface. 1 inch lower, and his wing would be at the bottom of the river, and he and the rest of the plane would be consumed in a fireball...
@psychoclown420 It's almost entirely pilot skill. If he hadn't unloaded the wing the aileron would not have had any authority. The 'luck' comes from hours, weeks, months and years of training in knowing how to recover aircraft from dangerous attitudes.
@claptonwannabe Indeed you are an expert pilot? i'm sure he's a very good pilot, but i don't think his skill would have made a 1 inch difference in the split second that he touched the water. A lesser plane would have been torn to shreds
@vruls if you eject that low there will be no time for the parachute do deploy. there was a video somewhere on youtube with a mig-29 crashing and that's exactly happened to the pilot- the parachute opened when he hit the ground
@uzogsi Above water, and so close to the surface its not going to make much difference though, youd survive easily, providing you managed to eject safely.
@uzogsi Most modern aircraft with ejection seats have zero-zero capabilities nowadays. They can eject from a complete standstill and still be alright. Watch the harrier crash video on youtube for an example.
@vruls because an ejection seat weighs way more thana standard seat. Weight is a huge factor for aircraft, huge factor for racing vehicles. So for a racing aircraft, extra equipment is a waste. I wouldn't want one if I was piloting a racing aricraft.
@ilias2oo6 LOL, no need to explode... stalls are one of the most dangerous things you can get yourself into while flying, and no, pilots do NOT stall accidentaly every day.
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Bullshit - das war pures Glück dieses Hirnakrobaten! Mehr Glück als Verstand will man sagen, aber wenn man sich dieses Jungchen mal anschaut war es in diesem Fall war es sogar VIEL mehr Glück als Verstand.
I agree that there is a large element of luck in play here, but come on. He was able to recover from what potentially could have been a bad, bad mistake.
I agree that there is a large element of luck in play here, but come on. He was able to recover from what potentially could have been a bad, bad mistake.
@JeverHuelse fuck you worthless nazi faggot. Matt Hall is a Wing Commander who flew combat missions in Baghdad, he's a top gun instructor, 1997 pilot of the year and was awarded the Chief of Air force commendation. He has more skill than your whole fucking family put together and multiplied by 100. His pilot instinct, incredible reflexes and pure skill saved his life.
"Shallow men (in your case, fuckwits) believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson.
That was a split second reaction to re-establish lift on those wings. Every pilot makes mistakes...the ones that can recover from situations such as these are by far the BEST!!!! AMAZING!!!! I would fly with him anytime!! :)
Great recovery. I saw the Perth leg of the race and the accident that happened there: excellent piloting skills and a clear head pulled him though. Go Matt Hall! :D
Only thing I didn't like about this video was the camera change to the guys wife and family. Just shows that the producers always have a camera trained on the family so they can get a "worst moment of my life" shot if a pilot goes down. Dickish.
@builder20 - Not necessarily... The chances that a plane goes down in this competition are incredibly low. It's not something the producers are going to expect. The families are probably just shown at different points during the coverage anyway, to keep things interesting and show the pilots' support - afterall, they film the crowd, too. Maybe it's a bit invasive, but I'm sure they had to agree to it.
@builder20 Yer that's what it's all about catching people in vulnerable and private moments ,voyeurism ! Surely you remember the challenger disaster when the putrid media not only filmed the school teachers parents but zoomed in on their faces as they were realizing their daughters death , I only hope the maggots responsible are on the other end of a tragedy and cop the same some day .
@SamUKest89 No, he pulled up and out. Pilots are expected to do this whenever in a position of danger. Another example of this is when they clip the gates and part of the gate gets caught on their wing, they MUST pull up and out, cancelling their run.
I think the bit of luck might be that the wingtip leading edges didn't bite into the water, and that the right gear pant impact didn't damage the tire or strut such that the landing would be compromised. It was an amazingly skilled recovery, but he was about 3 inches away from the leading edge of the wingtips digging in as opposed to the trailing edges skimming the water. Knife edge close call.
Airplanes like that were not meant to hit the water. He was lucky the plane wasn't destroyed or he wasn't seriously injured. All you people who are saying this was no big deal have very little concept of how dangerous that was. That was an incredible save that was both skillful and lucky.
@randallprince especially considering the exact same thing happened to Adilson Kindlemann on the Perth leg this year, and he was lucky to get out of that alive. At the speed these guys are going, hitting water is like hitting concrete.
That was 90% skill , 5% solid enough airframe, 5% luck. It's obvious that people who think that striking the water is going to "Cause a massive life threatening problem" haven't much of a clue.
@Fudgeg00d Really , what if he'd damaged his rudder elevator managed to get airborn again then flew out of control into the nearby crowd or suburbs hitting water is the same as hitting tarmac especially slapping it in flat like that .
That's how Chuck Norris cleans his plane
tiredchimp2002 3 weeks ago
My name is matt hall
OnHopeAlone 4 weeks ago
Funny listening to the spin "he's one of the best pilots on the planet."
Reality: he was too low due to pilot error and he survived due to luck.
FantasticBob7000 5 months ago
when he went full knife edge the lift of wing went to horizontal plane (this force turns plane) and literally lost lift and can correct to some degree with full elevator. He should endorse a adult diaper and put logo on aircraft and he could say "Crapon is the best adult diaper in the business and i just wish I had been wearing one when this happened"
blastforyou 6 months ago
0:41 .. FAT? Waw
FlyNaash 8 months ago
Жить захочешь-ещё не так вывернешься)))
StanislavHaron 1 year ago
A win for carbon fibre & and big rudders
ChickertyChina 1 year ago
I feel sorry for his wife. Who herself is/was an Australian air force doctor specialising in aviation medicine. At the end of the day she must be on the verge of a nervous breakdown watching her husband do this. And this was a guy who faced surface to air missiles flying over Iraq with the Americans in 2003. I hope his luck doesn't run out again.
hanscombe72 1 year ago
so, hey ho bin so einsam jemand lust zum chatten oder so
Sandra79252 1 year ago 8
just look at the little girls reaction seeing the adults' actions.. 0:22
gilbertmigs 1 year ago
A great recovery. An awesome pilot with great skill thanks to his fighter pilot training with the RAAF.
PilotAce74 1 year ago
Great Video, I've shared it on my blog (link in my profile) in an article about the Red Bull Air races going on hiatus.
VampyreGTX 1 year ago
pure luck he's still alive, he came within one or two inches of death.
pete49327 1 year ago
lucky lol
swat2400 1 year ago 2
when is the next race?
Spazum888 1 year ago
you have no idea what your talking about
nickmillartyler 1 year ago
I love these armchair pilots that think they can give opinions on how he saved the plane! He is a skilled pilot who got very lucky....... thats it! He put the plane into a position it should have never been in and it responded by not wanting to fly anymore.....STALLING...... never a good thing.
71jhornsby 1 year ago 4
Amazing!
TheOriginalSabbe 1 year ago
is crapping your pants something they score?
VGsuperstar 1 year ago
This is absolutely amazing.
xoneverwantedme 1 year ago
Great skill I grew up around small planes when my dad was a pilot and he would take me to the bar at the airport and heard pilots stories about how they crashed and how some recovered nothing as bad ass as this!
ATGaric 1 year ago
he should get sponsered for that
bsebas81 1 year ago
check out my stupid,but yet funny videos.i hope you laugh:)
Oriongiant66 1 year ago
beast
FLORES1171 1 year ago
a veces perdonan los aviones eh jij
gusvolador 1 year ago
thx to the fucking good construction
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killerboogy69 1 year ago
holy shit! he is really lucky his propeller didn't touch the water
SWApilot94 1 year ago
Nice save!!! These pilots have the biggest cojones of them all!
M0nsieurX 1 year ago
I liked this video, thank you.
yakkahDotCom 1 year ago
He is just an amazing pilot.....
cirrus4string 1 year ago
Years ago a cop mate told me he was present at an outdoor beach event,the afternoons highlight was an aerobatic display.Pilot screwed up failing to pull up hit the water disintegrating the plane into confetti.He was asked to go with other cops in a small boat to try and locate the pilots body.Searching for a while they noticed a commotion on the water near their boat, closer examination revealed it to be fish feeding on the pilots brain floating just under the surface.
HAPPY FLYING DWEEBS .
bottomfeedar 1 year ago
If he was such a great pilot, he wouldn't have got himself into this situation to start with, he admits breaking some basic rules so that makes him dangerous especially in this comp.
grossentitzens 1 year ago
@grossentitzens we all make mistakes. Plus, "Matt Hall was the most successful rookie in Red Bull Air Race World Championship history with 3rd place overall in 2009" - so if Matt Hall isn't a great pilot, then all the others are complete shit aye? And he says he breaks his OWN rule. On top of that, he was Australia’s “Fighter Pilot of the Year” in 1997 and was the Royal Australian Air Force Fighter Combat (Top Gun) instructor prior to competing.
squirttle92 1 year ago
@squirttle92 Yer we all make mistakes but you can't in this sort of activity there's no room for that .
grossentitzens 1 year ago
@grossentitzens I guess you are a robot then. Every human does mistakes. No one is perfect, and if you think someone can't make mistakes you are disillusioned. It is in human nature to do mistakes. Every fucking person in the whole fucking world does mistakes. You can do something right 99.9999999999% of the time, but there are still the 00.0000000001% chance that you make a mistake. Start think a bit.
ZtriDer 1 year ago
@grossentitzens ???? You don't have a clue what you're talking about. He is one of the best pilots on this planet and when your competing you're on the edge of control and chaos.. That's with every racing machine..
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@grossentitzens ???? You don't have a clue what you're talking about. He is one of the best pilots on this planet and when your competing you're on the edge of control and chaos.. That's with every racing machine..
Ddubya77 1 year ago
Matt Hall look just like Jack from lost
Raoo 1 year ago
red bull literally gives you wings!!!
hawkpilot2312 1 year ago
Had his prop struck the water, it wouldve been a water landing.
boundaryzero 1 year ago
He would have died with an impact at that speed right? I wonder if there are emergency speed boats waiting for if there is a crash. Amazing the drag of hitting the water didnt pull the nose down! Also, Red Bull is loaded!!
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How it can be happen? Why he push left again the ailerons? Or maybe a self rotation?
393WR 1 year ago
oh yeah Australia goes ......... ???????
thedetective22 1 year ago
wtf at the ending it shows a guy going right through a pylon
rggfgjerjh 1 year ago
hell i would've gone for the water landing. lol. jk
rggfgjerjh 1 year ago
one word.... BALS
Awesome pilot to control these kind of goofups
tunespt 1 year ago
there's no such a thing as luck in aviation
MoSantoori 1 year ago
Did he say 'everyone was ok?'... who else was with him whilst he was flying ;o
BadBoyzEnt 1 year ago
good recovery
johnson3369 1 year ago
Amazing job!
sufa256 1 year ago
ok its good I think the pilot shit in is pants hihi
avions777 1 year ago
it dont work fuck yes fuck ing stoupit jerk you tube
avions777 1 year ago
the only thing that kept him from going into the water, is that he kept the prop out of the water only by a little bit. if the prop would have hit the water, he would have been in the water.
globemaster68 1 year ago
Nothing to "figure out". He G-stalled the wing, brought the wings level, which unloaded the wing, and thus kept the wing flying. The "lucky" part for him was that he was in a a/c with amazing power to weight ratio that kept the wing flying with out having to go nose down. He would not have survived in a C-182 or even a Cirrus. I'm glad he's okay and can continue to entertain us with his flying prowess.
TriumphDoc 1 year ago 2
Some day one of this guys will have a serious accident the last year one of them hit a pelican during the race and end the fligth with a hole in the tail.
Amlaxx 1 year ago
@Amlaxx One already crashed a couple of months ago in a training run in Perth, Australia.
21LoDown 1 year ago
Amazing!
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It's fucking funny how I'm reading these comments and seeing people wasting time & trying to "figure" out how he survived.
It's fucking simple.
God wasn't piloting.
So who saved him? He saved himself. Yeah, the Engineering is also pretty fucking impeccable!
skylinefolife 1 year ago 37
@skylinefolife
Pretty simple mind you have there... limited vocab too....
NZPilot4 1 year ago
@NZPilot4 haha. I really don't believe in arguing with someone as shallow as you :)
Especially over the interNetz! =3
'Cause, ya know, arguing over the internet is like ______ ... Yeah!
skylinefolife 1 year ago
@skylinefolife
Pretty simple mind you have there... limited vocab too...
NZPilot4 1 year ago
@NZPilot4 You sound like a raged religious nut who doesn't get that the man saved himself not god. Skyline just explained why and you call him simple minded, can you get a dumber?
LacedShit 1 year ago
@LacedShit Awwww. Merci =)
skylinefolife 1 year ago
@skylinefolife - Ya and if he would have died it would have been Gods will. This guy is an unbelievable pilot, that's all.
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truely one of GOD's miracles, Id liek to see a athiest expain how this man survived/
MAdk1p 1 year ago
@MAdk1p
Science.
LiquidTurbo 1 year ago 3
@MAdk1p
Science &
1337 sk1llz
nickelisio 1 year ago 3
@MAdk1p well he pitched up which caused it not to be pulled under the water... and his speed helped him skim across instead of just sinking.
and this guy is pretty skilled and flies all the time, so stfu because your logic incredibly flawed.
falkon3439 1 year ago 10
@MAdk1p Probability.
goose688 1 year ago 2
@goose688 skills.
phil090864 1 year ago
@MAdk1p I'm on your side, you can totally see Zeus pluck the plane from the water and place it back in the sky.
oneutd 1 year ago 3
meh, as usual they are making this way more dramatic than it is
JogBird 1 year ago
@JogBird You could do that?
BaconatorGuy 1 year ago
thank god everything came out in a safe result!
bluemike155 1 year ago
@bluemike155 Yea bc the all powerfull creator of the universe is watching the Red Bull Air Race Championship. You fool
LBTennis 1 year ago
@bluemike155
GOD (Whom dosent even exist ) had nothing to do with it. It comes down to amazing engineering and an even more amazing pilot with great great training. Well done man, impressive save!
afslayer 1 year ago
My only question is HOW did that plane survive, you can't attest to pilot skill... Maybe it's the skill of the designers, and luck that he just barely grazed the surface. 1 inch lower, and his wing would be at the bottom of the river, and he and the rest of the plane would be consumed in a fireball...
psychoclown420 1 year ago
@psychoclown420 It's almost entirely pilot skill. If he hadn't unloaded the wing the aileron would not have had any authority. The 'luck' comes from hours, weeks, months and years of training in knowing how to recover aircraft from dangerous attitudes.
claptonwannabe 1 year ago 8
@claptonwannabe Indeed you are an expert pilot? i'm sure he's a very good pilot, but i don't think his skill would have made a 1 inch difference in the split second that he touched the water. A lesser plane would have been torn to shreds
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J4CK100 1 year ago
WTF y dont they just make an eject button
vruls 1 year ago
@vruls if you eject that low there will be no time for the parachute do deploy. there was a video somewhere on youtube with a mig-29 crashing and that's exactly happened to the pilot- the parachute opened when he hit the ground
uzogsi 1 year ago
@uzogsi Above water, and so close to the surface its not going to make much difference though, youd survive easily, providing you managed to eject safely.
b71nKy 1 year ago
@uzogsi Most modern aircraft with ejection seats have zero-zero capabilities nowadays. They can eject from a complete standstill and still be alright. Watch the harrier crash video on youtube for an example.
claptonwannabe 1 year ago
@vruls because an ejection seat weighs way more thana standard seat. Weight is a huge factor for aircraft, huge factor for racing vehicles. So for a racing aircraft, extra equipment is a waste. I wouldn't want one if I was piloting a racing aricraft.
TinyMike111 1 year ago
.. Speechless ....
BHUX123 1 year ago
skill? experience?
he just pulled on the steering wheel and then shit his pants.
corndog5595 1 year ago
@corndog5595 There is no steering wheel in an aeroplane, my good sire.
psychoclown420 1 year ago
@corndog5595
You are kidding, right?
That, or you are an idiot.
Aofex 1 year ago
@Aofex
yes im kidding.
im not that stupid, lol.
any other pilot in the world would be dead right now in that situation.
and i know there is no steering wheel.
corndog5595 1 year ago
Holly shit
edgesuxass 1 year ago
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eboing 1 year ago
Imagine if this wasnt over the water
Fatfool159 1 year ago
Hall knows how fortunate he was.That cockpit cam shot after the event said it all.Nice recovery.I'm sure that's not the normal result.
FIGHTSEEN 1 year ago
Proving once again Red Bull Racers are like modern day gladiators. Listen to how exited the narrator is speaking about someone's possible death.
coppurt 1 year ago
What a legend. Now that is skill
MattRJH 1 year ago
WOW!!!
Gangreen167 1 year ago
That's crazy! Who were the dizzy bitches they showed?
sdarms111 1 year ago
@sdarms111 family
MacProooo 1 year ago
Damn he's hot.
kthankxbye 1 year ago
I like Lamb's winglets, but I think its a bit of an exaggeration.
marick626 1 year ago
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he barely touched the water and dey paniced over dat? hmmm...
MelPerezEsquire 1 year ago
@MelPerezEsquire Yeah but he stalled dude.
blueb0g 1 year ago
tell me what dat means...
MelPerezEsquire 1 year ago
@blueb0g yea but so what he stalled you faggot? pilots stall everyday you mother fucker fagget
ilias2oo6 1 year ago
@ilias2oo6 LOL, no need to explode... stalls are one of the most dangerous things you can get yourself into while flying, and no, pilots do NOT stall accidentaly every day.
blueb0g 1 year ago
why are u bitchin at him for???
MelPerezEsquire 1 year ago
@MelPerezEsquire Err, they don't normally touch.
How about we put you in a plane and see how you do in that situation....
jamimanz 1 year ago
well im jus sayin.......
MelPerezEsquire 1 year ago
Yep---The man has skills and lots of of them. Gonna be great watching them over the Hudson next week-end.
MrHooker53 1 year ago
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ja hmm total gelangweilt wer will mit mir schreiben hab auch bilder von mir
mattiealtitudeprah 1 year ago
wow wooow wow!!
MrNandoMeis 1 year ago
i live in windsor
hells5ummoner 1 year ago
Lucky,lucky,lucky( bet he had a change of underwear!)
jamestheengine 1 year ago
Ridiculously amazing! These guys are by far the best in the world.
azseal 1 year ago
Awesome Pilot ..............
314731 1 year ago
Awesome, unbelievable crazy pilot.
marciojust 1 year ago
Was für eine nervige Selbstbeweihräucherung dieser RedBull-Aushilfs-Gladiatoren.
Von wegen "one of the best pilots ..blabla" - "amazing rocovery ...blabla" - "military training ...blabla" ...
Bullshit - das war pures Glück dieses Hirnakrobaten! Mehr Glück als Verstand will man sagen, aber wenn man sich dieses Jungchen mal anschaut war es in diesem Fall war es sogar VIEL mehr Glück als Verstand.
JeverHuelse 1 year ago
@JeverHuelse
I agree that there is a large element of luck in play here, but come on. He was able to recover from what potentially could have been a bad, bad mistake.
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@JeverHuelse
I agree that there is a large element of luck in play here, but come on. He was able to recover from what potentially could have been a bad, bad mistake.
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@JeverHuelse fuck you worthless nazi faggot. Matt Hall is a Wing Commander who flew combat missions in Baghdad, he's a top gun instructor, 1997 pilot of the year and was awarded the Chief of Air force commendation. He has more skill than your whole fucking family put together and multiplied by 100. His pilot instinct, incredible reflexes and pure skill saved his life.
"Shallow men (in your case, fuckwits) believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson.
kingcrumpet 1 year ago
I meant to do that.
calvinbears 1 year ago
That was a split second reaction to re-establish lift on those wings. Every pilot makes mistakes...the ones that can recover from situations such as these are by far the BEST!!!! AMAZING!!!! I would fly with him anytime!! :)
lnc2speed 1 year ago
A bee's dick mate, a bee's dick... lucky!! :)
Heshhion 1 year ago
@Heshhion Amen brother. That was close!!!
vfrmin 1 year ago
Great recovery. I saw the Perth leg of the race and the accident that happened there: excellent piloting skills and a clear head pulled him though. Go Matt Hall! :D
StrikerVX2006 1 year ago
that was an awesome piece of flying to recover....seriously impressive
Andrewmaughan7 1 year ago
Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi
broncsrule2 1 year ago 3
@broncsrule2 You left out an Aussie
LBTennis 1 year ago
Only thing I didn't like about this video was the camera change to the guys wife and family. Just shows that the producers always have a camera trained on the family so they can get a "worst moment of my life" shot if a pilot goes down. Dickish.
builder20 1 year ago 2
@builder20 - Not necessarily... The chances that a plane goes down in this competition are incredibly low. It's not something the producers are going to expect. The families are probably just shown at different points during the coverage anyway, to keep things interesting and show the pilots' support - afterall, they film the crowd, too. Maybe it's a bit invasive, but I'm sure they had to agree to it.
smittyguitarplyr 1 year ago
@builder20 Yer that's what it's all about catching people in vulnerable and private moments ,voyeurism ! Surely you remember the challenger disaster when the putrid media not only filmed the school teachers parents but zoomed in on their faces as they were realizing their daughters death , I only hope the maggots responsible are on the other end of a tragedy and cop the same some day .
majortuckage 1 year ago
he did good. at least he could admit it was his fault. go the bloddy aussies...
theDevilWithin2008 1 year ago
haha no i keed i keed this guy is cool shit i would of crashed it. no i was just was a ass hole
zachfaulks15 1 year ago
What a legend! truly skillful flying and so honest to admit it was his own pilot error.
itstricky83 1 year ago
I hope this fag finished the race
zachfaulks15 1 year ago
@zachfaulks15
You obviously didn't watch the video! You just had to make a derogatory comment!
What a fucking loser you are!!
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!
nishbrown 1 year ago
@nishbrown i was missing around! ''loser?'' like come on i was going for asshole not a loser
zachfaulks15 1 year ago
@zachfaulks15 ahhh on every video theres the typical idiot, found him.
jameskeogh88 1 year ago
Snorkel up...periscope down....
thezorba1 1 year ago
1:23 i thought that he was saying that he deserved it. before i got it. lol.
freakface666666 1 year ago
did he continue the competing in that specific run? i would have just wanted to get my feet back on dry land lol, well done to him
SamUKest89 1 year ago
@SamUKest89 No, he pulled up and out. Pilots are expected to do this whenever in a position of danger. Another example of this is when they clip the gates and part of the gate gets caught on their wing, they MUST pull up and out, cancelling their run.
itstricky83 1 year ago
that's a stupid sport,well,if you can name this a "sport"...
cacaaleau 1 year ago
@cacaaleau Haha, it's better than fucking NASCAR... It actually takes somewhat skill.
ChargersFanForLyfe 1 year ago
What a plane n' what a pilot!!!
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eclipserealm 1 year ago
mate, this is no luck at all, had he been unexperienced he would have been from the past.
Amazing piece of flying from expert
ibm0026 1 year ago
il a eu très chaud..... !!
sebrema 1 year ago
LUCKYYYYYYYYYYYY !!!
dumbimperialism 1 year ago
I like the little girl's reaction :) 0:24
SFR75 1 year ago
@SFR75
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woodyfly 1 year ago
If ever there was a perfect situation to cause one to shit themselves, that was it.
jasonlajoie 1 year ago
pretty close to death there man
rumpastumpa 1 year ago
Somebody has giant testicles. :)
centralthought 1 year ago
Text Nick Jewell at 1810-618-3635 and tell him hes the biggest fuckhead int he world!
urbanranger101 1 year ago 2
I think the bit of luck might be that the wingtip leading edges didn't bite into the water, and that the right gear pant impact didn't damage the tire or strut such that the landing would be compromised. It was an amazingly skilled recovery, but he was about 3 inches away from the leading edge of the wingtips digging in as opposed to the trailing edges skimming the water. Knife edge close call.
tempjohn1111 1 year ago
amazing
DonReedProductions 1 year ago
matt you are a legend.
fsfer 1 year ago
wow my ass would be had, but there is a bit of luck that wing didn't collapse or dig in. but shit hot skills man, thats incrediable reaction times.
finster3434 1 year ago
@AustraliaDebt His last job was flying F/A-18 Hornets for the RAAF, and fighter pilots, generally speaking, aren't idiots.
This is a classic case of a pilot making a simple mistake and getting into a shit situation, then relying on pure skill to get out of it.
avi8r1 1 year ago
I like the Kid at 0:24 Mommy whats going on? She looks scared so does mum lol
rahulras 1 year ago
0:29 He can't believe he's alive. The save of the century !!!
Go Aussie !!!
SPOOKSTR 1 year ago
Airplanes like that were not meant to hit the water. He was lucky the plane wasn't destroyed or he wasn't seriously injured. All you people who are saying this was no big deal have very little concept of how dangerous that was. That was an incredible save that was both skillful and lucky.
randallprince 1 year ago
@randallprince especially considering the exact same thing happened to Adilson Kindlemann on the Perth leg this year, and he was lucky to get out of that alive. At the speed these guys are going, hitting water is like hitting concrete.
avi8r1 1 year ago
Lucky boy
sbglobal 1 year ago
A classic case of "when something bad happens, just fly the plane" such a simple concept very few "get it"
GrigoriZhukov 1 year ago
That was 90% skill , 5% solid enough airframe, 5% luck. It's obvious that people who think that striking the water is going to "Cause a massive life threatening problem" haven't much of a clue.
GrigoriZhukov 1 year ago
Over-react much? I honestly don't see someone hitting the water with the rear of a plane is going to cause a MASSIVE LIFE THREATENING PROBLEM!
Fudgeg00d 1 year ago
@Fudgeg00d Really , what if he'd damaged his rudder elevator managed to get airborn again then flew out of control into the nearby crowd or suburbs hitting water is the same as hitting tarmac especially slapping it in flat like that .
Quontomleeep 1 year ago