Tico Warbird Airshow Fatal Jet Crash

[TTyler989]

at all

[TTyler989]

not funny

[TTyler989]

i also know the guy that flew the plane!! (just to tell you im NOT BEING SARCASTIC!! im sereous i was there when this happend!!!!!

[TTyler989]

i was there when that happened!! *sad*

[CFITOMAHAWK2]

A 0:11 you can see the plane slowing down too much with nose up. He came out of the cloud stalled and spinning, recovered too loo. He stalled in the cloud, even when those planes have a non thumbling Directional Giros and Attitutide indicators for Aerobatic Instruction. Sorry he was a Surgeon. We lost another neurosurgeon in May in NJ plus 2 others Drs in other accidents in NJ. Private Planes are the new and old too Dr. Killers.

[Capt777harris]

Jesus. Oh my. Man, you just never know what to say with tragedies like this. I'm very sorry it happened.

[goldrush3ubn]

I miss you Eilon. You were a true friend, a great lawyer and an awesome pilot. I will never forget flying with you. When your granddaughter Nolie is old enough to understand I will tell her everything I know about you. Your family and friends miss you and think of you every day counselor.

[drinksy1212]

possibly vertigo. i think he also recovered and made that final turn to avoid hitting the crowd.

[619viewloader]

The L-39 is notorious for stalling when you pull full back on the stick. When he was exiting the manuver he noticed he was to low and panic'd and pulled hard on the stick resulting in a wing stalling and spiraled into the ground. R.I.P

[AnimeWolfArtist]

damn D:>

[Wadeforce]

i was here before, i live 10-15 mins from it

[g6rcteam]

@Wadeforce my dad lives in port st john he heard and felt it hit the ground shook the house like a sound barrier boom

[BushPilot444]

It continued in a spiral that may have looked controlled but I believe he had lost ailerion control due to stall.

[pilotdynan]

It seems like the right wing stalled when he went out of the loop causing the plane to spinn. sad : (

[19Truth53]

WOW! Now THAT'S an 'Airshow'!

[iamtheman177]

Wait so did he die?

[Gunfight9]

YES !, you can have hot seats on civilian owned jets. I went thru E seat training with this pilot and he opted to fly his aircraft with the seats cold. The only requirement is have the E seats re-certified every year and have the parachutes re-packed every 180 days.About half of the privately owned L-39s ( this aircraft) in the U.S. have their E seats cold. Might not have made a differance anyway as he was out of the ejection envelope once the nose was pointed towards the ground.

[mjufpn]

@Gunfight9 your so wrong, he could eject any second out after the jet was facing downwards the k36 would save him.

[saveyours0ul]

i'm sure he would have ejected... instead he tried to pull out of the dive but failed... if you look closely he almost made it

[pwnage0013]

oh he ejected all right!

[MondoMedia7]

@toomanykittens no he fricking LIVED!!

Gawd you are stupid!

[hansaufx]

This is the first time I watched the full video. My Dad and the pilot were best friends and he was supposed to fly with him on this day, but he got called away to a job. Twist of fate that I am thankful for. As far as all the speculation goes, no matter what's been said, no one will ever know what really happened because no one but EKK was in the cockpit.

[jasong19711]

yeah funny how many people that comment on YouTube are "rich" or "own a company", or are a "pilot with a beautiful wife".

yeah yeah yeah surrrrrrrre.

[ushouldntjudgeme]

Well, two outta three ain't bad, I'm not rich , but I am a pilot and have a beautiful wife, and I have no comment!!!! LOL

[MondoMedia7]

nobody gives 2 shits who you are. we are just watching a crash video is all.

[wittmann]

met the pilot the day before :(

[Wes91793]

Why were they flying like that any way with the low clouds? Isn't there a new visibility rule?

[andyrik]

really shit time to get into a spin... no chance at that height!

[3tittiefreak]

Surely with all of our great technological advances we could make aircraft fitted with some kind of mechanism that will automatically eject the pilot/s if the aircraft is pushed beyond it's limits in too close a proximity to the ground.

[csadjemait]

you have to pull the canopy lever

[1994fishcake]

Why didnt he eject

[Myles0Harcourt]

Did not have time, probably.

[lolz989]

there wasnt an ejection seat in that plane

[lolz989]

there wasnt. there isnt an ejection seat in that aircraft.

[tube12435]

Actually normally there is but they took it out to lighten the load for the airshow

[lolz989]

My uncle is a chairmen and tols me that there is not an ejection seat in that l-39. it was privately owned and privately owned aircraft cannot have ejection seats.

[LoboalphaMASTER]

@lolz989 why private planes cant have ejection seat??

is that a law or something?

[lolz989]

only military can have then cause of the maintenance that having a seat would you go through. u have to inspect it every time u fly and they are not safe unchecked. so they made a law to not have them

[lolz989]

no ejection seat. its a privately owned jet. they cant have those.

[lolz989]

i was there my heart dropped to my stomach. and i had a shitty feeling for the last 2 days of working at that show. good thing nothing has happend since then that very dark day.

[lolz989]

he had over 1500 hours of fight time he was a fighter pilot and was airshow pilot i dont know where you get that he wasnt an expert

[stevenlong4289]

I am a pilot. Qualification enough, I'd say.

[stevenlong4289]

I understand what you're saying, but just for the record...

This guy was an ex fighter pilot who constantly flew in air shows.

[Chuckjagermeister]

Oh. By the way this was not necessarily aimed at this particular pilot but the pilots that tend to buy planes like this with little experience in them.

[smalpecker]

I was there as i live just downthe road,Did they not Decide he mis judged his Distance to the ground in the loop,Aparently even for experienced pilots this can happen,That was quite a sad day,there has been a few fatal crashes,they should recognise these pilots that gave there lives at the show next year.

[AdrianNtart]

Well if its obiviously an L39... next time dont say

''it looks more like a Bae Hawk -_- '' so type better yourself

[genocidemills]

@AdrianNtart mmmh what? maybe read better yourself?

[AdrianNtart]

if he didnt spiral he would have made it!

[danteahriman]

Yeah I was there too. We had a couple of beers together and he told me he was really happy about how his life had turned out and that his only regret was that he was retiring the very next week and that he didn't know what he was going to do after this. I'm real glad I met him. He was a real inspiration to my life.  A lot of people don't know it but he lost part of one of his legs in Viet Nam flying A-7's over Hanoi. Real great guy. A tragic loss. RIP Cappy!

[3IDLukeK]

oh shit, i went to the one in 2008, that sucks!

[lolz989]

this was freakin brutal. i was there.

i talked to him in the pilot tent about 30min B4 he flew that day :[

[shrimper76]

sorry to all concerned....awful.

[blueangelzrock2]

thanx

[blueangelzrock2]

that was my uncle

[DC32780]

My most sincere and heartfelt condolences.

This was at my hometown airport.

I wasn't there, but I grieve for your loss.

[odessaboy]

Very sorry for your loss.

[gio31brasil]

iM SORRY FOR YOUR LOST FRIEND!!!

[IK1963]

Moral of the story is don't do aero's through cloud. Pilot came out of the cloud, pulled up too hard, stalled, entered a spin, recovered, but by then was too low to avoid the hard stuff. My condolences to the famlies and friends.

[JardaKristek]

This is L-39 Albatros or L-159 ALCA??

[98525]

L-39

[b52sgrouipe03]

Ive been attending this airshow since i was 2 and never seen anything this horrible happen there this happened the day prior to my arrival for the weekend do you have a more video past that ?

[macieyek1]

bad :(

sad :(

[ForeverBluestar]

Did the pilot live?

[buncsi16]

no :(

[wlollpop]

why didn't he eject?!

[98525]

The L-39 Didnt have an ejection seat, and even if it did, he was WAY to low to safely eject.

[wlollpop]

crap

[georgitushev]

ok...

[dobermans4you2]

Then the announcer goes "okay, its just a crash no big deal"

[lilshorty9856]

how come anytime something bad like this happens ,all women in the immediate area start simultaneously screeching and squawking.that is one of the most annoying things on earth,its not gonna bring the pilot back to life.

[escueladeleyi]

and they will also go "OH MY GAWD OH MY GAWD!" over and over and over!

[xoio]

Tell you what, lets make you witness a REAL disaster with your own eyes, not some de-sensitised TV or FILM FX bollox, but the real deal, & see how you react!

[escueladeleyi]

xoio------tell you what, I have seen enough air and car crashes happen in real life to make a video on here all by itself.

[mikeb172sp]

He stalls at 0:15. (The wings for you non pilots)

[kcosmic3]

OH MY GOD

[theuniquesband]

oh L-39, I remember those when I was a kid those planes always passed by our house, well it's pretty weird that such a small country like Czechoslovakia had its own jet fighter. I mean they made them, and of course they had an ejector seat

[brettt777]

Actualy it's perfectly legal to have ejection seats. I work for a company that supports many of the privately owned L-39s in North America and many of them have "hot seats".

[jrprattjr]

I believe he became disoriented because of the low cloud cover and started an additional roll at the bottom of the loop. He should have exited going the other direction and been much higher above the ground.

[lolz989]

ima be there this saturday

workin at the coke stand by the pilot tent

and sunday hope for no crash this year

what a tragic accident :[

RIP

[wittmann]

I was there the day before this happened it was on the news programmes when it happened i was shocked :(

RIP

Hope this year went ok

[limitlessaviator]

Such a shame... Too bad it didn't have an ejection seat.

[laleeloolelol]

why must GOOD people die this way and bad people seem never to???

[nico2292]

bad people die 100 times more but u dont give importance to it so when someone good dies u think he`s the only one dead

[GwnythsPale]

This is why I stay my ass on the GROUND!

[silenceonce]

anyone else hear the asshat clapping at 0:25?

[laleeloolelol]

sure did  silenceonce!

[ghug143]

i was there

if he new how low he was at the time he could of saved himself

by doing a cuben 8

i knew the guy i talked to him b4 he crashed

i died that day too it sucked

[SmiertSpionem]

Well that was... disturbing.

[tjenk71]

Simple issue....when coming over the top in a loop you cannot pull back to hard or you will enter an "accelerated stall". Any stall requires altitude to re-establish airflow and recover. He didn't have the altitude to spare. Complacency kills when flying. I fly an Extra (borrowed not owned) and I was stupid enough to enter a spit s one beautiful day without straining (i was so relaxed I forgot) it almost cost me my life.

[utubeworms]

It's looks as though the pilot attempted to do way to much at way to low an altitude.

[cipiripi77]

l-39 is wery simular to f104 starfighter from this video clip...but its have better performans then f104...it is fatal eror to fly on bad conditions..he could do just a loop and he get out a life...

[rich34glider]

the L39 is nothing like an F-104 - except it has wings & a single engine!

[cipiripi77]

i know that l-39 is nothing like an F-104 pure allweather interceptor..but on this klip in air l-39 looks almoust like f-104

[genocidemills]

it looks NOTHING like a 104

short wings, T tail. long cylindrical fuselage

it looks more like a Bae Hawk -_-

[AdrianNtart]

hawk my ass! that a L39 man!

[Oblivionsurveyor]

visibility might of played a factor, Those clouds were really low... A good pilot doesnt rely on visibility but more so his instruments.

[spottydog4472]

at that height -its all VIS! buy the time he checks his clocks - he'd be dead!

[mikeb172sp]

Not an acrobatic pilot!

[Polybun]

not enough air speed, stall, flat spin, die.

[ultimitchow]

HO SNAP!!! :O

[1factoid]

WOW! Now THAT'S what I call an AIR SHOW!

[strizhi]

You know I'm getting fed up with you saying the same thing over...come on man...where's your respect!

RIP

[NGC7078]

My family was there. Too bad for the pilot.

[b101aa2]

Unfortunately, that person probably had about a thousand hours less than what is actually needed to fly high performance jet aircraft. And it is even more unfortunate that he paid for that lack of experience with his life. The L-39 is very nice plane that handles great. It's not really built for low aerobatics like a Extra 300.

[N520UP]

Actually he was an former fighter pilot from the Israeli Air Force..

[b101aa2]

Didn't know that. I wonder why he did that then. It's not built to that specifically, and unfortunately the result was the video. IDF doesn't mess around, so he should've known better. It's just sad though that the wings stalled out and the result happened. He wanted it all.

[3DflyerWAH]

the engine was still running, looking at it again he realized we was to low and gave it full up elevator and it stalled and started to spin, you can't try and pull an airplane out from that without it wanting to spin, not enough air flow , the airplane is not flying when it is coming down like that it is falling due to gravity

[DancingSpiderman]

My synopsis: The jet flew up into the clouds, the engine wimped out, stalled, and headed straight for the earth. Bang.  The End. No Victoly.

[josenar145]

very unfotunate. But it just seems weird that he would do a god bless usa routine in a Czech jet.

[seanhennessy]

What a moron you are, nothing like proving to the world you are an ignorant, uneducated xenophobe with NO IDEA what you are talking about. TWAT.

ALl you idiots that don't have a clue what you are talking about stop posting and proving to the everyone that you are morons.

The Fa/18 pilot and the aeronautics engineer know what they are talking about I suggest you just READ what they said.

[josenar145]

lol! I never said it was wrong, I said it seemed strange. xenophobe? I find that very ironic seeing that I speak three languages and live in a country I wasnt born in. BTW it was an unfortunate accident whether you think so or not. as u would say in the uk, SOD OFF!

[Chris01974]

Geeezzz! bad day at the office, or were you just going above and beyond to prove a point??

[oakld]

Well, "sh***y" airplane? I don't think so. L-39 Albatros was considered to be the best school jet and maaybe it still is. I read recently through all american crashes of this type of the plane and they were all caused by pilots or improper servicing.

[coldasiice]

It look like a spin at low altitude,he gave it opposite rudder and full throttle (notice the roar of the engine right before impact)and sadly the plane stoped spinning just before the crash,he did not have enough altitude to pull up.

[alexim334]

OMG THATS wut happens wen a shitty plane like that tryes to flag manouver like a f-22 raptor and only f-22 raps can flagg manouver!!

[StinkyGreenBud]

+1 for the announcer at the end..."Ok"

[Darkstud88]

An L-39... Looks as if it stalls at the top of the loop, not enough effect on elevators leading to a big bang...

I don't know- i only fly RC models that don't hurt too much if they crash!!

[LTF85199]

the cause was plane and simple!

[GSDirtboy]

He executed a VERTICAl ROLL, not a spin. He had control through the entire manuever. Out of the inverted he was looking for airshow center and his line but didn't pick it up imediately, added a 2nd 1/2 vertical roll on the downline that put him 500 feet low. My credentials? Former Navy F/A-18 Hornet driver. But heck, you guys may know a lot more about this flying stuff than me.

[metallicaKSA]

i believe you. i'm british so, kind of gutted I won't fly the hornet, applying to RAF after A levels.

[smalpecker]

Thats exactly what happened,I live 3 miles from there and go every year,and after the investigation,it was almost word for word what you just said for a cause.

[Maxwell2323]

Parubhi:

I have a Master's degree in Aeronautics from the Univ. of Washington in Seattle, and instructed many aeronautics classes. Since you clain I don;t know what I am talking about, what are your qualifications?

This is nothing to do with a spin. The plane was not in a spin. He had no control and was desperate (the pilot).I have flown an L-39. It does not take a stall to produce a spin at any AOA.

[fenderish]

parabhi no shit lol

if a plane spins out because of a turn how does a turn do tht??

a spin occurs wen the plane stalls

[a2g6d4k8]

PILOT ERROR

PLAIN & SIMPLE!

[retardedMuslim]

If man were meant to fly he would have been

born with wings.

[ruckin123]

yep he stalled and a spin so he couldnt pull up in time :(

[windhovernz]

no he didnt, he performed a diving vertical roll, that isnt a spin, and he did so at a height that wasnt sufficient

Study spinning carefully and youll see the difference.

[Parubhi]

All you fucking idiots who don't know a damn thing about flying really need to shut your traps and quit commenting on something you can't even comprehend. A spin does not develop over two turn and you sure as hell can't recover from one in a single turn. Just do the world a favor and shut your mouth.

[Maxwell2323]

Obvious stall.

[teiladay]

Maxwell2323 says: "Obvious Stall"..... and that would be 100% correct. With all respect, this pilot was in trouble not too long after entering the clouds. It was obvious that the aircraft departed from controlled flight, you can see the stall plain as day. It was a death sentence after that in that aircraft.. no room to recover.

[a2g6d4k8]

why the f---- did they have a stunt that low to the ground being done during such low overcast clouds anyhow???? F------ stupid!

[retardedMuslim]

you damm right a2g6d4k8

[corazzato89]

la manovra è stata effettuata ad una quota troppo bassa.

[1HEXJUMPER]

this was also a 100% pilot error !

that last turn the plane made before coming out of the dive was too much too low.

[WeLikeThis]

that must have hurt. NEVER PULL UP INTO AN OVERCAST.

[Megaplugg]

Like the fact the camera man wasn't touched at all by the accident: "Ok."

[pfiffer2974]

this is what happens whenever you fly a few hours of aerobatics and THINK you can do air shows in a civilian jet!!!

[GSDirtboy]

First of all, rocket scientist, that wasn't a civilian jet. Secondly the pilot was a highly trained former military pilot - 7000 tactical hours. Your idiot comment is what happens when know-it-alls open their mouths.

[a2g6d4k8]

oh man that is brutal!

[joebobshouse]

Wonder if he stalled and spun at the top of the loop(?)

[haggis12345rules]

Unless it was an engine failure, he most definately did.

[1sonicboom]

The announcer responds like "ok, next"

[jwboll]

announcer: "don't worry folks, its all part of the show!"

[wittmann]

I was there the 15th... the day before saw this bird...

[Magepkfun]

did he die?

[egnog]

it does say fatal air crash so would say: no

[duragg]

Loaded roll on the downline. Heard great things about the pilot, family and all.

[shadowwolf386]

I there that day. That was so sad.

[Insaneduude]

:the anouncer: now watch the pilot fu*k up his cuban eight

[thuger91]

i live right down the road from the airport - i knew the shows were going on and i heard the explosion i knew somthin was wrong- then next day papers say it was fatal- i am sorry for him and the famiily

[ghug143]

there was a second boom. 5 mins after the plane crashed no smoke though if anyone was there that day they herd it to know what happened the fbi has a training

course back there and thay have chargers that make sounds and fires and explosions for military training

one of them went off cause of the heat of fire of the crash

[ghug143]

i was there it was horrible ive been to that airshow every year since i was born my uncle is one of the chairmen and my aunt is a volunteer at the museum there

and we get free passes i work at a coke stand i only got the smoke on tape it was the first crash ive ever seen

[jaybee641]

Yeah,got into a spin without room for a recovery.

[lordhiiden]

yeah i was there to, we were like 300 yards away from it, i couldnt belive it, me and my dad were there, and us both being pilots we took it hard, as soon as he started that second spin i knew it was wht just happened.

[ElitaMost]

My 3YO son and I both witness this crash at Tico. The show had just started...he was the second plane out. One moment your having fun and enjoying the stunts, the next moment your heart is breaking. We all knew that pilot was killed at that moment. It was a very unfortunate and sad event.

[shadowsniper101]

When I was little something very similar happened at an air field show near where I live. =/

[PelicanPilot]

I was there

[mammothmouse1959]

It seems to me, that the pilot got disoriented because of the low clouds.

I am really sorry for him and his family.