F-14 Prototype Crash on 1970.

This video show the crash of prototype number #1 of Grumman F-14 Tomcat project, on a test flight on 30 December of 1970. Due to failure of a hydraulic pump which caused a total loss of flight controls, the pilots ejected safetly before the crash near of the runway at Grumman's Calverton facilities in New York.

(Sorry, video without sound)

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[PeoplesWar]

Wow... somebody's stuck in 1970... LOL

[zedd58]

Whoops there went another billion

[asg631]

@gtc1961 Yeah it is, just west of exit 71.

[gtc1961]

I think that's the LIE under construction at the beginning of the video.

[thesergreatvids]

@machstang70 Too bad its not in Bethpage and Calverton anymore. Id love to hear them roar over my Shoreham house anyday.

[machstang70]

I worked for Grumman (Bethpage) as a Machinist , in the mid 80's. We built the F-14 outer wings tail surfaces and other potions of the plane in our building. I thought that the plane went down due to F.O.D. (foreign object and debris) in the controls.

[MrKevin1107]

i think the engine was stalled bc usually when you go down the engine stalls

[Ragingnsweet]

You must be all of ten yrs old and a retarded idiot!

[TomcatSucks4ever2]

worst aircraft ever

[seanemt1]

age631 i live 10-15 mins away from cavlerton as well as matter in fact i jsut visted cavelerton airpor yestrday its like a ghost town we went onto the airport to and found this old taxi way where they were old alert pads during the cold war i dont what planes were on the pads i tried to find out no luck but it was really cool.

[Weirdo10o4]

It had less problems in the development phase than the F-4, they all have problems in the beginning and they're constantly upgraded.