Harrier Pilot Eject

[kelvintwt]

he landed (on) the plane. read it without the (on) :s

[uxbluebot]

Why would ppl splash water when they can see a 10+ million doller plane hovering over your head !!!!

[CAinfowarrior]

that pilot landed right on the crash site /// DANGEROUS.

[ZzRvXzZ]

Why? why those idiots were splashing water on eachother when there was a freaking jet floating over the beach?

Why the jet just crashed?

Why the pilot got FIRED?

why my penis is so big?

ok o keed on the last one

[MrSnobby24]

is this real or fake?

[jimbob200008]

@MrSnobby24 Real i was there. A stange moment i can tell you that.

[antibulletdodger101]

@jimbob200008 yeah we believe you...

[webstersafc]

lol all the kids stop and look

[ducatiforever09]

insane. looks fun to eject!!!!

[kingjames8283]

Judging from this view the lift engine failed or the shaft connecting the main engines to the lift engine is more than likely what failed. Being stationary at low altitude this is what happens. If it occurs in-flight at high enough altitude, just apply immediate forward thrust and fly it like a normal jet no problem.

[TakumiFujiwara80]

@kingjames8283

Sorry for my rude method,but please, stop saying bullshit...This is an Harrier,It doesnt' have any lift engine or shaft that connect it to the main engine..Maybe you think it's an F35...Anyway even the f35 doesn't have a lift engine.It have a lift fan drive by the engine with an shaft.So again ONE engine. The Harrier tilt its nozzle to hovering...

[TakumiFujiwara80]

@TheMilitaryTactics

Sorry,what's the sense of this comment?I can't understand why you reply me saying this. I never said that F35 doesn't have fan or can't tilt its engine. Read more careful my comment next time.

[burnmehdown214]

Why was it hovering/floating?

[pmgodfrey]

- @burnmehdown214 -

That's what the Harrier is supposed to do. It's designed to be a vertical takeoff aircraft. They can hover, but only for a short time because they have a limited supply of water on board to cool the engine which would otherwise be cooled by air passing across the turbine.

They're good for short runways, aircraft carriers.......or driveways...if you can afford to have one sitting in front of your house.

[burnmehdown214]

@pmgodfrey A plane that hovers? Man, I feel like a dumbass, I really like aircraft but I've never heard of this sort of plane? *facepalm* :p Thanks for the info mate.

[samsmeg]

Martin Baker ejection seat once again

[RcTeamLosi]

awesome

[mpwelk]

Oh man good thing he wasn't over land, he'd be roasted crisp from where he landed.

[SvedBratr]

Filmmaker did anyway get a unique shot

[ahmednabil]

if you ask me its obvious . the pilot tried to crash land it and eject in hover , over the water , low altitude , to make recovery ov the fighter possible.

[lexalolsicnh]

no sir, it was hovering for a air show and something went wrong.

[ahmednabil]

oh i see , but isnt it odd to hover over all these people.

[lexalolsicnh]

if you look to the left of the screen you can see a bouy, (floating object) that tells the people in the sea how far they can go out

[krughugs]

OOO I was there when that happened t'was frightening :S

[agwhitaker]

I think the pilot was oogling the younger women in the skimpy bathing suits!

[wesson1968]

Looked like he landed right back in the plane again!

[AmmoBravo]

This crash was pilot error. Harriers are meant to hover but not for too long. If the pilot hovers for too long ( like he did ) the engine overheats and stalls.

[joelwhitaker]

not for too long....they can hover for a very long time actually.........It was pilot error.......(I think he went to rotate the nozzles too quickly) which resulted in engine failure so it stalled. My dad had to deal with the engine when recovered as he was a Chief Technician on the Harriers at the time! He is a friend of the pilot (Flight Lieutenant Tony Cann)

[gmanflyairforce3]

what are the odds he lands right on top of his plane again?

[BraveDave]

Nevermind the pilot, I'm gutted for the guy in the sea wearing the blue shorts! He's splashing his friend and as a consequence misses seeing first-hand probably the most awesome sight he'd ever see in his life! Unlucky!!

[me351]

Even if it hadn't crashed, I find it hard to believe that someone isn't interested in watching a Harrier jet hover!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jimbob200008]

I was there when this happened. what a sight.

[joelwhitaker]

lowestoft air festival!

[alexhaloman]

the pilot hit pretty hard in the water that was a pretty close call i wonder if he would of lived if it hit the water

[chieffw]

Nah the jet broke the surface tension making his fall softer

[crazymxrider]

im sure he would'a made it anyway

[GlennQuagmire247]

Spoke to a guy who tests parachutes for the same company that made this guys 'chute, he used this vid as part of a presentation to demonstrate the "pendulum" effect you can get under a canopy.

The pilot lived, but the poor bugger landed back on top of his Harrier's wing/fuselage (I forget which) and broke his leg. I *think* he was rescued by a beach lifeguard and then taken to hospital.

[cashdealer07]

haha! saved by a civilian lifegaurd.. wow.. how embarrasing.

[joelwhitaker]

taken by coastgaurd helicopter!

[NaFenn12]

broke his ankle however

[JacobTheRedWolf]

It looks like those engines failed.

[HollyIzzyGump]

Unlucky

[joelwhitaker]

they did...after pilot error...and the Harrier GR7 only has one engine btw

[lennonmccartney66]

I feel bad for Kauboy84. Can't you guys see? He can't read or write because all of the money that should have been spent to educate him was given to the "amry."

[snake1521]

haha, damn that 'amry'!

=P

[TheA10Phonex]

Kauboy84 you asshole the army spends your taxes money to protect your ass not to buy bitches like you,but are you really American?

[gastonrivero]

??????you have problems

[Kauboy84]

why you care about? yeah im american! fuck american!

[Kauboy84]

fuck wasted my money taxes! fuck the amry!

[TheStormchaser1]

Umm do not worry. Your tax money pays off the interest on the money Federal Reserve Bank prints. Which in turn goes into the bankers pockets. So it is not a waste of taxpaying dollars.

[Kauboy84]

ahh! you got good point!

[65476546]

learn to spell

[Kauboy84]

fuck you!

[jwalsh8]

first of all its the air force secondly this is a british jet so it doesnt even slightly effect you and i dont think u could have kept the thing flying so dont judge.

[eveningniteshade]

USA use harriers too. It might be a US harrier

[jwalsh8]

yeh ur right they do but my ex gf's brother is in the raf as a flight ops assistant (which im gona be starting training for in feb :-)) and he knows the pilot. This guy broke his leg when he landed on the jet after ejection lol.

[joelwhitaker]

It is an RAF Harrier......A GR7a...the US use the Harrier AV 8B......my dad used to be a Chief Technician on harriers and had to deal with the engine in this one!

[joelwhitaker]

has not wasted any of your money...It's a Royal Air Force Harrier.....not US

[dutto75man]

a harrier is hovering on your beach and your busy splashing your buddy in the face so you miss it. well done

[chwuwd]

just another ordinary harrier related accident

[kotsxz]

He was checking out the dudes in their swim trunks and lost his concentration.

[RsEvilPker]

rofl

[minipulator99]

what the hell was he in a stall or something and then he jsut dropped? i need to know sommeone respond

[AirSquirrel1]

this is my friends friends he was hovering for the airshow display he had a segull birdstrike which cuased the engine to fail as its on full power when hovering..

[ukexposed]

Wrong. It was pilot error. Just search for "Flight Lieutenant Cann error" (without the quotes) at Google.

Or, if you're too lazy, the gist of it is - he mistakenly operated the throttle and nozzle direction levers at the same time.

[joelwhitaker]

correct......this resulted in a full loss of power and thenstalled.....my dad had to deal with him afterwards and the engine when recovered!

[joelwhitaker]

u r wrong!.....It was engine fauilure but not a birdstrike..........pilot error......my dad was the engineer who had to deal with him afterwards..and the engine!

[joelwhitaker]

no...operated the throttle and nozzles at the same time and too quickly causing a full engine failure!

[jema2009]

ese harrier una mierda es un asco no va ni a mas de 1100 km por hora que mierda horrible y no es supersonico ingleses ignorantes

[numnuts98]

A lot of people weren't paying attention - i bet that made the water brown.

[BadassScotty]

LOL

[basseyboy]

the reason was to stop the dam thing from plunging into hundreds of people on a beaach i dont think that would have gone down to well

[bigbangAT]

what a wast of money :(

[stormlauncherpilot]

stupid

[bigbangAT]

what was the reason to hover above the sea of a beach??

[89Corolla]

To make an ass of himself.

[jessiejames93]

your stupid.

it was an airshow retard.

[89Corolla]

It was a joke. Take a chill pill.

[joelwhitaker]

airshow

[razgriz87]

must have an experimental boomerang seat... ejects then brings you back to the plane...

[initialhunter7]

tru

lmao

[LoudS1l3nc3]

lol right into the tail! it would have been awesome if he landed on the cockpit again :P

[razgriz87]

I hear thats the next version. This is a mkII seat. The MKI's were a failure as the pilot was returned to the aircrafts engine... not a pretty sight.

[hqbeamer]

haha that was at lowestofe my friend saw that he was swimming in the sea hahaha!!

[Stefanoitch]

haha sure that idiot pilot lost he's job

[TythorZeth]

No he did not, it was not his fault.

[joelwhitaker]

yes it was!

[joelwhitaker]

no he didn't

[Tomasm21]

That was cool and funny :D rofl

[ruckinbull5432]

ive seen that on worlds most amazing videos! the pilot was going to do a bow ( the harrier was) and it lost power

[geoffart]

sure - the F35 is superior in every way, it does everything the harrier can - better, and more than the harrier can. But, I think each one costs 35M USD!! I guess you get what you pay for. Comes down to question of if its better to have lots of harriers, or fewer F35's? But yes, big purchases of F35 are coming soon and it seems a great plane.

[F22RaptorFF]

the f-35's cost 100million

[geoffart]

Its very confusing because I think there are lots of other costs to take into consideration. one source says:

"Unit cost of the production F-35 is expected to be lower than the OT&E cost. A 2006 estimate put the unit cost by 2014 when the aircraft is at its full production rate at US$48 million (EUR33 million) for the F-35A, US$62 million (EUR42 million) for the F-35B and US$63 million (EUR43 million) for the F-35C. "

but figures change- depends on source. still big cash though!

[geoffart]

the AV8B had a few issues I heard, but the RAF versions were great! served well in the Falklands. Is invaluable for operations from remote locations and can be well hidden. If truth be known, anything that hovers is more dangerous if it suddenly loses power. I think the harrier is a brilliant machine and there's nothing mainstream that quite replaces it yet.

[nprules111]

shame its being replaced by the F-35 but  the F-35 can go a hell of alot fsater and have better weapons and its stealth! but still i prefer the harrier!

[matthewteague]

theres a naked dude in the middle of the shot

[JosephMelia]

where,where?tell me damn it.

[matthewteague]

see the guy with the black on... to his right

[JosephMelia]

OOoooh eerrrrr uh uh uh uh uh uh oooooh,leave me alone you pervert.

[matthewteague]

all i want is your body?

[JosephMelia]

087 9456854327 shhhh!Only after 6,my sugar Daddy works night shifts at Marcels Boutique.

[matthewteague]

okay... oh so dirty.

[mcdustbunny]

hovering over water would dump a shitload of jet fuel into the water

[ClamLuvr]

It is the Harrier Jump Jet. People in the military like to call it the Harrier Junk Jet. Now you can see why.

[joelwhitaker]

um...no they don't... it's a very good aircraft

[Jacksda]

The pilot caught his sleeve on a lever which then caused the harrier to start thrusting forward. because he didn't have enough power the plane started to stall and lose altitude. the pilot broke his leg as well cause he landed on top of the harrier. there was nothing the pilot could do

[andreluxury]

are you serious about the sleeve thing or are you joking?

[Jacksda]

I kid u not. this happened a week after he was down at the Plymouth armed forces show and my dad was told about it cause he was in the raf back then.

[ukexposed]

Google "Flight Lieutenant Cann error"

[joelwhitaker]

he is lying....my dad was the engineer who dealt with this aircraft after the crash...it was pilot error but he operated the throttle and nozzles at the same time and too quickly resulting in a full engine failure

[joelwhitaker]

load of bollocks

[Jacksda]

i'm not lying. yes it was pilot error and i just wrote what i was told. thats the news my dad got told y would my dad or myself make that shit up. my mistake even with the sleve thing it is still pilot error so therefore none of what i said was a fucking lie

[joelwhitaker]

orite....chill....just makin the piont that the sleeve thing is wrong.....sorry calling u a lier but sooo many people lie on these vids to look like they know wot they talkin bout!

[pwND001]

it happend cause a raghead had an rpg

[rvf3373]

Wahaha... what a way to dump a jet.

[mgspwnz]

why the hell was an fighter hovering over a beach?

[deanjet]

Same reason I go to the beach, to check out the "other" sex!

[airshowfanforever]

i always wanted to go to one of those water airshows they seem fun, and you can get refresed after a hot day. but i would have been crying my head off cuz i hate to see planes crash that close or even on the news.

[evilnixon2006]

Did they ever find out wat was wrong i was just down the road wen it happened

[andreluxury]

where did this crash happen?

[evilnixon2006]

Southern england it was a long time ago

[joelwhitaker]

yeah...I'll ask my dad...he was a chief Technician at te time and had to deal with the pilot and engine afterwards

[Arni1804]

that was random

[Georgestuffs]

I hate how the majority of the people aren't watching, I know the video is real but It's annoying how no one cares in the video.

[turkeylips17]

the thing is, what would you do? if i was having a swim on the beach and the next thing i know a harrier pilot decides to park his plane on my rubber dinghy, i would be in shock. i would just stand there and gawk for a while.

[jwalsh8]

my girlfriends brother works in ATC and he knows this pilot. he worked with him in afganistan after this accident.

[andreluxury]

so was seriously on his cell?

[jwalsh8]

lmao nah

[andreluxury]

lol, aight.

[ZzRvXzZ]

@jwalsh8

are you serious? he didnt get fired?

oh... your comment is 3 years old.... are u still alive?

[sadanieldavey]

he was on his cell, what in incombitant pilot

[yeogav]

he was on his mobile apparently.

[andreluxury]

lol, dont talk and fly.

[proconsulaugustus]

Thats what you get for having four beers before climbing into the cockpit.

[modey19]

this was so danger

[ruskieroy]

GOD I BET HE THOUGHT HE WAS THE SHIT

[castlekid08]

bbc says it was engine failure

[psygn0sis]

AHHHH MY NUTS !!!

[tizzy070787]

he bailed out because it was a structure for scubure divers and if you look 10 metres away in the see there is a double decker bus

[andreluxury]

whattttt?????

[airshowfanforever]

didi you see the people swiming and playing and then they just stoped dead motion but i hope hes ok

[littlemo2781]

How do you eject

[stretchmark8]

apparently he pulled the wrong lever, easy to do in a complex plane. and by the way it was at lowestoft air show, and it was a hot day so there was always going to be a lot of people.

[Zero1RR]

divert failure? ditch?

[frogger626]

I agree w. HL3dsx. Doesn't look like a normal engine failure, because there was no smoke puff from the engine. I'd guess he wasn't as high as he thought he was, either that or a catastrophic engine failure.

[MyCancun07]

Landed right on the dam plane too. That could have done him in...

[jpjb83]

Agreed.....what are the chances of that happening? Maybe greater because his thrust was vectored at 90 deg.

[loopylawrence]

question .. why the fuck was he hovering over a crowded beach ... numpty

[HL3dsx]

Looks like he tried to switch from hovering to forward motion but something failed so he ejected.

[44R0Ndin]

Engine failure?