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  • Yak-38 'Forger'. Notoriously unreliable engines.

  • No, the pilot survived, he was my Grandfather, God bless his soul.

  • Do you have the rest of this video??? SOunds like it may be some kind of hostorical documentary. Thanks!

    Former McDonnell-Douglas Escape Systems Test Engineer (1988-1992)

  • I think this was an edited fake

  • Oh he's good. With my help...he could be the best.

  • Man, that is not speed brake, it is Yak 38 and that thing that looks like speed brake is actualy engine intake. Yak-38 had aditional vertical engine to help him get up.

  • What gives? 'peru wasn't being a jerk. Not like some on here. An underwater ejection is something I've never seen. And I doubt anyone else has either. Being underwater can change a lot of things. Ejecting was the only chance the guy had. Being runover by the carrier he was trying to land on. It looks more like he was trying to take off. Tho why speed brake was up is puzzling. The f-8 or the a-7's entire wing moved up a few inches for added lift I suppose. Its been awhile since my carrier days

  • @byron500

    The air brake faces back towards the tail not forward. That is a vent for STOL flight, It appears that he pulled the nose up too quick and stalled out into the sea.

    I might be wrong, but that what I see.

  • @kill3r197 : I should have paid more attention in A-school. LOL After I posted my comment, my little gears started spinning in my brain. And you're right of course. Air brakes don't function very well, pointed forward. I'm blaming brain fade. The first time an aircraft popped forward facing speed brakes at pretty much any speed faster then a couple of hundred knots and probably even less. The plane would have been ripped apart. or that "flap" would have taken out the tail.

  • guy didn't want to get wet.

  • 3) The carrier appears to be British..based flight deck markings and design 4) please feel free to correct me if I am wrong about anything....I have found that I learn a lot more by listening to experts, than by acting like I know every friigin thing...which seems to be a common trate among many people commenting here

  • folks..I'm not a real expert, but; 1) the guy landing on the flight deck was alive, as he is hanging on to the parachute risers 2) The aircraft appears to be a "Yak ##"... as I have been intercepted by similar aircraft launched from the USSR carrier "Kiev". ( I have 6,000 US Navy Patrol hours)

  • They are British, as they fly from the left side of the ship....

    (just joking)

    First time I see a plane landing with the tower on the left side wing...

  • @HogerOpMielen pretty sure that's not a landing. I know the speed brake is deployed, but the aircraft seems static at the beginning, and accelerating. As crazy as it sounds, it looks like they ditched the aircraft on purpose.

    As for the jackass saying the pilots probably broke their necks on the canopy ... you've spent too much time watching Top Gun. Ejection seats are designed to protect pilots from that kind of injury, so Goose would have been just fine.

  • Very impressive but I think the pilot died, unfortunately. His parachute barely had time to deploy before he hit the deck. Still, though, thats better than slow death by drowning

  • US escaping system engineers?? wtf? Thats a soviet yak 38.Two seater version eqiped with soviet seats.

  • win!!!

  • The Royal Navy had doctor and aviator who conducted the underwater ejection tests for the Buccaneer. Flying, crashing, sinking, rocketing, floating, splashing, swimming.

  • yes it was a test with a Yak-38

    both pilots bailed out you can see them geting rocket up one by one 0:10 - 0:11

    but only one off them land it on the "carry" Yes i agree flight deck on the right...

    this is just a test carry

    google it wiki 2 pilots "ejected from water" :-P

  • I didn't think it was possible to be both the unluckiest and the luckiest bastard at the same time.

  • I think he is moving wrong way. Carriers usually have flight deck on the left

  • what?! does the ejection seat work underwater? I knew there were 0-0 ejection seat... so this seat is... haha

  • It's a two seated version. Where is the second pilot? The Yak-38 had an automatic ejection system, but this plane was one of the worst safety recorder in the aviation history.

  • That was chuck norris proving a point....

  • El sin suerte!!!!... Salio de abajo del agua y aterrizo con el paracaídas sobre el portaaviones???.

  • ejected back onto the flight deck;  amazing.

  • What appears to have happened here is a failed Rolling take-off. Judging by the video quality it most likely took place in the late 1970' very early 1980's. This is not unusual for the Yak-38 to do a rolling take-off and most pilots preferred it to the VTO. Problem with the rolling take-off was that the thrust control nozzles had to be set at about 45 degree angle and go from there to straight back after it left the ship which is very complicated. Epic fail of the Nozzle adjustments.

  • epic fail....your facts are obviously filtered by the KGB or some russian shit because the only supersonic VTOL aircraft is the American F35

  • What??? xD

  • @asianiinvasion The first supersonic VTOL was the Yak 141 not the F-35!

  • @asianiinvasion

    1.- Stop using that fucking stupid meme "epic fail".

    2.- Americans are on par with communist/socialist brainwashed citizens.

    3.- If you don't know shit, don't fucking pretend you do.

  • @asianiinvasion wrong again the f35 VTOL version is being occupied by the British and the Americans are having the 2 fighter versions and the soviet union is on a par with everybody else including america so don't act like america is the big boss there isn't a big boss i don't see all countries controlled by one man do you ?

  • What show is this from, beetches?

  • that was awesome that he ejected back onto the carrier!

  • Yack 38 Forger: subsonic VTOL carrier fighter.

    Country: USSR

    First flight: 1971

    Production: 271

    Retired: 1990's

  • shouldn't that drag thing be closed during takeoff?

  • "drag thing":air intake for vertical take off.

  • The ejection seat did a vertical takeoff.

  • Vertical takeoff? What kind of plane is that? I've never heard of one like that, except for that funky Russian MiG-21 VTOL experiment.

  • its a Yak-38, the russian Harrier..

  • @ee000011 On the contrary: Must be open for the vertical fan to be used.

  • To me it looked like a takeoff from a catapult to Vr+. No need for vertical thrust in that case?

  • lol i love the sound of the ejection "Pooosh!"

  • i think that was a landing, he has his air brakes extended

  • Yeah...good point,

    but he was taking off.

  • no brakes....it was the inlet for the hubfans...

  • should't that drag thing be closed during takeoff?

  • wow, that take off failed miserably

  • skill

  • Amazing timing!

  • Hey if that saved him. I mean, if it's crazy and you live it works. It was his only chance given what happened, with his plane going down on him. I hope the guy made it.

  • thanks, i'm left wondering what wyunaboy knows that we don't.

  • i mean could wyunaboy please explain what he means when he said: "i dont know if US ejection seat could work under water like russian have"

  • I think the pilot dies... god bless him

  • @skydiverperu The pilot has survived at a landing on a deck of the ship it has broken a hand and it is all

  • @skydiverperu ...who told you that?  or do you just think that in your feeble mind?

  • @skydiverperu I think he didn't

  • @skydiverperu

    It looks like he stood up after he was dragged.

  • Maybe they want to know if the ejection seat would work underwater

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  • When he hit the water he was having about +80 degrees of pitch, or +90 AOA....!

    You wouldn't want to eject from that position while having the ramp of the deck right in your path...!

    He probably, more or less thought about ejecting at that moment..., though he did everything to save he's life!

    RIP if he didn't make it!:(

  • From underwater and onto the flight deck! That's friggin' awesome!!!!

  • @azseal -WOOSH- Ta-dah!

  • @azseal and then he is like:

    "dam, what did i miss?"

  • wow that dude was lucky. liked the sound it made when he punched.

  • YAK38 Forger,Vtol/stol russian plane Dude!

  • i'm impressed. The pilots back might bave been crushed

  • that lucky bastard...man oh man...

  • LOL PWNT

  • Did he miss the memo that he would be piloting a plane not a submarine. I can see how he could get the two confused.

  • Even more impressive, it was two-seater trainer variant of Yak-38 (clearly seen as it passes operator at 00:02). BOTH pilots ejected from underwater at 00:09, first landed near the end of the deck at 00:11, but looks like his chute filled only partially. They are both injured almost undoubtfully, if survived. In the end you may see people running from the second pilot to the first (he is out of camera view).

  • ouch

  • i dont know if US ejection seat could work under water like russian have

  • it's a good thing they usually don't have to

  • A US NAVY A-4 Sky Hawk lost an engine on downwind to approach on a carrier deck and the pilot described no time for glide or anything, it just suddenly hit the water and sank. He ejected from under the ocean surface and was rescued, but recieved a punctured lung.

  • ive never seen a left handed approach to final on an aircraft carrier lol. i quess that makes things a little hectic for the lso and the wires.

  • Can you please explain the differences between the 2 systems, that would effect ejecting from underwater?

  • lol

  • That guy had an eventful day, take of from a aircraft carrier, crash into the water and eject from underneath the water, and to top it all of, land perfectly on the carrier again, and all within 10 secs

  • 10 secs and 10 years of therapy(just kidding)probably happier than on christmas.

  • This is a RUSSIAN Ac ! A Yak-38. No matching to the commentators text.

  • what a waste of planes

  • Yeah I agree with you on this one Rose... but it was funny!!

  • caralho!!!!

  • This guy is talented!!!

  • That is just plane incredible.

  • Extremely cool. Must be very exciting to crash and then get run over by an aircraft carrier.

  • lol

  • Bet he would have had a sore head if he had ejected a couple of sec later (up into the carrier) otherwise fantastic accuracy

  • lucky!

  • awesome!!

  • didnt even have to swim

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