Air Force Thunderbirds Crash

[Huntington12345678]

Did he died?

[OneTrueLove94]

I was there (:

[everythingdisney53]

what is this song call?

[razor11079]

a million dollar fighter jet has been pweew

[razgriz786]

@razor11079 a million??

lol where u from buddy? it costs more than $40 million in todays dollar!

[yankee22167]

knock it out?.....is that military talk?

[Junkman2000]

@yankee22167 They were being instructed to cease the routine.

[razor11079]

@yankee22167 Yah iknoww

[dart1285]

nice try on making the radio sound legit...cause it definitely wasn't.

[XxBuRkaDuRkA]

I seen the crash live. Pretty intense.

[FAISAL15S]

He didn't stall the cause of this crash was false hight reading cuz he didn't calibrate the altimeter so at the top of the maneuver he tought that he has suffiecint hight to recover but too bad he crashed ...

[megatrondecepticon2]

atleast he survived.

[jrg8008]

Knock it off, ya knuckleheads! LOL.

I think the Russians would eat these sissy-boys for breakfast.

[Kiddeth]

@jrg8008 doubtful.

[Lovemyshelby08]

@jrg8008 not hardly russian pilots suck as do they're engines.

[cokkies44]

That was kool good thing he parachuted out

[WhiteboyOfUS]

I watched this live!

[Poparotzi]

Sure tell the pilot to "Knock It off"!! 5 seconds after he crashes

[spfinc1212]

oohhhh damn..... it was a close call with that eject timing

[torro454]

That is called a hard landing!

[AppleAreTastey]

View from inside the cockpit.

/watch?v=SjaU-SKYrPk

[TheLocomomo]

that guys like flippin out!!!!!!!! thumps up if u see him eject/flip

[cokkies44]

i saw him flip too:)

[thecoleman98]

blue angles have better jets then yall thunderbirds have bad jets

[OlderG0ds]

@thecoleman98 F-16 is not a bad jet. It's very good.

[Hazanko84]

Knock it off.

[squiddie96]

@Hazanko84 make me!

[IsoNurFace]

That sure does hurt my wallet! My father worked for General Dynamics from '76 to 2004 building and upgrading F-16's. If he were still alive, I'm sure he'd be a bit upset that that pilot destroyed one of his planes!!

[redcarpetphotography]

@IsoNurFace I'm sure your father would be happy that one of his planes saved the pilots life.

[IsoNurFace]

@redcarpetphotography No doubt he would have been proud that the pilot was saved. My dad passed in '06, he put his heart and soul into the F16 program. So I guess I take it personally when I see a Falcon go down. When a F16 crashes I see another part of my dad dissapearing.

[boundaryzero]

Capt Chris Stricklin (ret) is now flying a desk somwhere, and he is about 1" shorter from the ejection forces (thank god for zero zero seats).

[boundaryzero]

Capt (ret) Chris Stickln is now flying a desk somewhere. And he is about 1" shorter now.

[TheFighterpilot93]

He Ejected Just in time But he was 1000ft to Short :-(

[TheUsafpilot]

@MrBkey it's a joke man

[kevin462]

@TheUsafpilot some people just wouldn't know humor if it slapped them in the face.

[TheUsafpilot]

@kevin462 how is this crash a rumor, when the video has been recorded? Learn what your talking about before you say something.

[kevin462]

@TheUsafpilot are you retarded? that says humor. HUMOR. not rumor. i was agreeing with you, but maybe you should read things twice before you try and start acting like a dick on youtube.

[TheUsafpilot]

@kevin462 my bad man it;s been a long day been flying alot today

[EliteGhost001]

that's one expensive company accident....

glad he survived :-)

training a new pilot would add even more money to it.

[nucsol]

@EliteGhost001 He was dismissed from the team.

[EliteGhost001]

@nucsol

read that a few minutes after I wrote this. That sucks.. but I guess you can't afford any mistakes.

[mrdistraction]

@tanked135 I apologize, I wasn't paying attention. The point I was trying to get across was that it was an altitude calculation, not the altimeter, that was the cause of the crash.

[TheUsafpilot]

okay now thats coming out of your pay check

[babyboy2428360]

I think id rather crash a car anyday! :)

[Amar7605]

*Price is Right losing horns*

[MegaJamazing]

look for the cockpit view youll see he pulled the parachute at the last second

[UploadAwesomeMUSIC]

Nice Ejection.

[Dakotabos]

@UploadAwesomeMUSIC

Any ejection that a pilot can walk away from is a Nice One

I was at that airshow and got a 100mph Police escort frm Mountain Home To Boise NG base to recover my 2 F-117s that were in the air when they closed the airfield and Mountain Home

[saleens3514me]

@UploadAwesomeMUSIC and not a fraction of a second to soon either. he simply did all he could do

[MattLikesTricks]

@UploadAwesomeMUSIC he ejected so late because it was at an airshow, if he had ejected at a safe point the aircraft would have landed on the crowd. not funny.

[falcon2160]

That's awful.

[mrdistraction]

He didn't set his altimeter wrong. What Thunderbird #6 pilots do is calculate AGL and MSL altitudes to know when to roll. Mountain Homes' AMSL is 2996 and Nellis' AMSL is 1,867. Stricklin used Nellis' AMSL instead of Mountain Home's thus thinking he is higher than what he actaully was

[keneke45]

@mrdistraction wait, so dosent that mean he did set it wrong?

[mrdistraction]

@keneke45 lol Altimeter is for barometric pressure (altitude is measured in pressure) so when a weather man says "There's a high pressure system moving in," setting the altimeter just compensates for that. It's not used to change ground level altitude. Standard Altimeter is 29.92. Let's say there's a low pressure system. The pilot would set it to something higher like 30.01 or something

[336kgf]

I got autographs from the Thunderbirds when they were at Loring AFB back in either 80 or 81. A few of the guys died in Dayton OH later on that year.

[TaxiHack39]

I Saw The Blue Angels Crash At Niagara Falls AFB Back In 1985

[sheehy91]

i was there i think

im pretty sure it was an airshow

i remember a plane crash at an airshow i was at

[mrtkau]

what air base is this at and when?

[pikapoketpu]

@mrtkau mountain home AFB and its in 2003

[LM22102]

Did.. the guy survive? I thought I might have saw an ejection, but it could have been a piece of the plane or smoke

[leow626569]

yeah, he ejected 0.8 seconds before impact

[skipplet]

@LM22102 Yes he did survive. This happened at Mountain Home Air Force base several years back.

The cause of the crash was an incorrect altimeter setting (pilot error) causing the pilot to begin his split-S without enough altitude below him to complete the maneuver.

[XOROHN]

@LM22102 he's ejected

[pikapoketpu]

@LM22102 he survived

[boundaryzero]

I wonder if he couldve possibly saved the aircraft by rolling to his left and allowing the aircraft to level out in a direction away from the crowd.

[pcc15220]

The wings were stalled as is, banking will increase the stall. No way to save in this situation, he was too low....

[softilol]

@pcc15220 full afterburn maybe?

[AshwellAcott]

@pcc15220 there was no stall. In the flight incident records, the pilot stated he mis set/mis read his altameters. It was an honest mental error made by the pilot, so there was no loss of power nor' a stall.

[tzkelley]

Since he misread his altimeter he wouldn't have known he was too low until he was almost through the immelman.

[linzhilingiloveu]

I just like the view of crashing

[Weirdo10o4]

What are they saying? Sounds like "knock it off"

[mistahmiles]

knock it off means to abort all manuevers. obviously they would do that because the guy just crashed.

[noximputesta]

Thunderbirds Knock it off

One knockin' off

Two knockin' off

etc

etc

[mrdistraction]

knock it off is their way of saying "stop what you're doing, we're ending the show"

[Familyguy098]

this has got to be the most famous crash ever. its everywhere LOL