This was not a stall. It was a mechanical malfunction. One of the pistons in one of the engines fuel pumps seized, causing the engine to suddenly not rise above flight idle even though the pilot had the throttle in full afterburner. This happened without warning while the aircraft was demonstrating a high angle of attack less than 100 meters from the ground. Due to that high AoA, the other engine, still functioning and having correctly risen to full afterburner when the other engine suddenly stopped matching thrust, began to push the aircraft into a sideways spin. This disrupted the airflow on the control surfaces and the aircraft began to depart from controlled flight in a way that could not have been corrected in those circumstances by any human being before impacting the ground. The pilot was found to not have been at fault and did suffer back injuries, typical of the high forces imparted during ejection and the not quite as decelerated as optimal impact with the ground due to the low altitude and the initially diagonal direction of the ejection, which the seat corrected. Once on the ground, the wind inflated the parachute again before he could get it detached. He actually ended up getting dragged by the parachute in the wind (this video cuts before that) several hundred meters, sustaining more injuries in the process. Some of the rigging ended up wrapped around him during this, seriously restricting his ability to detach himself while he was being dragged on his belly head first.
Maybe people think a!stall is an engine failure. The aircraft wing stalled as airspeed dropped to a stall speed. Engine malfunction did occur but a stall did occur.
@@747heavyboeing3 You're right, that could have been better worded and it makes it look like I was trying mislead people about it. What I meant was that the pilot did not cause the stall. Not all stalls lead to unrecoverable departure, but the high AoA low airspeed and altitude in this case did even though he still has the other engine. I think I was trying to emphasize that it was not a matter of pilot error as this was a rehearsal for an airshow later that day where it was planned for him to perform this maneuver (sans crash).
There's a timber merchant near here called 'Boulton-Paul'. There are a few British aircraft manufacturers that were nearly exterminated by political decisions, and some only survived by going back to what they did before WWI.
i know someone who took an unexpected ride atop one of them in a viper while it was in the hangar. Took him straight up to the roof. Not 100% sure how he managed to get not seriously injured in that one as I wasnt there, but he got 100% PTSD from it.
The rudder was ineffective due to the high Alpha (angle of attack). Once the right engine failed, the aircraft yawed to the right. This yawing action accelerated the left wing and slowed the right wing. More lift was created on the left wing, less lift on the right wing. The jet rolled to the right. Ailerons were ineffective at this high AoA, the rudder was useless - no airflow around the vertical fins. The only action that could have saved this aircraft was to reduce thrust on the operating engine and lower the nose to accelerate the jet to get more airspeed. Unfortunately, the aircraft is at 200 feet - not enough altitude to allow for a safe recovery to gain the necessary airspeed. The jet continue its un-commanded roll as the pilot commanded left aileron and left full left rudder inputs. Multi-engine pilots call this maneuver a Vmca demonstration. This one was, at best, an extreme example. The pilot realized that the aircraft is out of control and ejected at nearly the last second for a safe ejection. This maneuver was authorized by the pilot’s leadership. They knew and accepted the risks associated with this maneuver. It’s ironic that the theme song was “Stayin’ Alive”.
I think the other crew room phrase went something like: When there's no turning back Pull the yellow and black Give thanks to your maker And messers Martin and Baker
when the pilot eject despite of aircraft banked, seat direct itself vertically,can ejection seat adjust itself to be vertical to the ground or it was just coincidence?
@@aidanbegovic9584 I'm late to the party, but if you watch closely the seat's flames, you can see that they are tilted in a way that makes the seat upright. So yeah, the seat adjusts itself, hats off to the engineers !
The small chute is an help to extract the main one and position the seat/pilot in the first instance. The rockets that push the seat out of the plane apply 8G to it in a straight manner.
Just as you observed, this type of seat obviously has the ability to "right itself" to thrust into the vertical. Notwithstanding that, you can see the aircraft slowing down, it must have been terrifying. I'm sure they were busy in the cockpit trying to get the engines to start making power again. In older aircraft no one would have survived after a wing stalls, in this case the right wing. But in this case, the ejection seat was able to put the ejection into the vertical direction, even after punching out when almost 90 degrees horizontal. Very very cool stuff. Lifesaving stuff.
Nope, the Mk14 seat does not have the ability to adjust its direction. It's simply fired up the seat rail and then boosted by the rocket pack. After that it's just plain old physics and gravity to determine its final direction@@shermancouch9964
The RCAF pulling out all the stops and dazzling the onlookers with their pyrotechnics show that's really quite believable. Hollywood should take notes.
A Harrier pilot once ejected and drifted into the fire of his crashed plane. Fortunately, the bits were quite far apart, and he ran for it, only slightly scorched.
Pilots have minimal control of their chutes. There have been cases where ejected pilots flew into the fireballs of their downed aircraft and burned to death.
Pretty much. Years of cutbacks and more money spent on bilingualism than the military has resulted in the military becoming a joke. Stop encouraging more immigration and instead meet and then exceed the 2.5%
@@kt3505 One of the most highly-skilled yet underfunded ever. The best snipers and land assault but given ancient hardware and not supported at all by the government. They are most concerned with pronouns than the people that protect their right to identify as a beach chair.
I am still surprised that the American fighter designers don't have the MDC, miniature detonation cord, around the canopy so that the pilot can eject through the canopy. It may only take a second or so waiting for the canopy to detach rather than instantaneously canopy shatter and the pilot goes through it, but as you saw here that extra second could mean the difference between life and death. I'm curious how any pilot or groundcrew thing about this?
An exploding canopy adds a million fast-moving shards of plastic to the situation. Yes, the pilot may hit the canopy as he descends ( it HAS happened, the incident in the first 'Top Gun' film is based upon a real ejection ) and there are a dozen other dangers, not least compression of the spine, but in British aircraft designs, the MDC is standard. If you look up on YT a newsreel film of a Supermarine Scimitar going off the side of an aircraft carrier, you will see why. Basically, underwater, the canopy does not fly away from the plane, so bursting the canopy with an MDC is the best option. The Blackburn Buccaneer had this for two reasons: the underwater problem already mentioned, and that the canopy was so long and heavy that the crew working together could barely move it, if the power failed.
Hey Martin, do you have an email address we can use to contact you regarding this video? I'd love to discuss a license to use this if possible! Cheers, Felix
I've always thought this was a dangerous maneuver you see aircraft flying at airshows. It was just a matter of time until an accident such as this occurred and they will continue to occur until the performers give up demonstrating slow flight, high angle of attack maneuvers just above the ground.
The low speed high angle was part of the demo. The starboard engine just quit on him, not enough altitude or energy to pull the plane out, so time to og.
normal flight would have speed and altitude, airshow AoA showoff not. here in Finland, F-18's have landed with one engine shut off, even "engine burning" alarms on cockpit. Wasn't, but shut off for safety, the pilots know how to land on one. Or none, though that might be a bit difficult... not known for their glide properties. Not a lot of reaction time there, and nothing the pilot could do.
Was this some type of loss of power? I don’t want to sound like an expert but the hornet should be able to pull those high AOA maneuvers *easier* than others. In my opinion the pilot either introduced the rudder / roll which doomed the maneuver, or some type of failure occurred which immediately hindered the jets ability and performance.
Wow that’s an expensive air show. No wonder the country is in so much debt. I don’t think it’s necessary to destroy an F-18 at every airshow to show off the ejection seats.
Pilot was thinking, "Oh fuck, engine failure and I'm low altitude - I'm gonna bail" and it took him not even a second to read and react to that. This is a manoeuvre where the plane isn't really flying with airspeed - pretty just sheer rocket propulsion is keeping it aloft.. You can see the plane dipping down once one of the engines failed and it was all over.
@@thomasrussell3924 I'm a little late to this, but... yeah... it is possible to recover from a single-engine failure.... but not in a Hornet, and not at that low altitude. Basically, each engine controls one set of systems, and it's the right engine that controls the hydraulics. Lose the Starboard engine, lose hydraulics, no control... buhbye. And it's not much better if you lose the left engine either.... as that's what powers the electrical systems. So if that goes, you lose your flight control computer, your HUD and MFDs, and all but your backup instruments and engine gauges... but without your FCS, the plane is very difficult to control, so it's probably best to pull the bug-out bars. But either way... you lose an engine at that low an altitude an airspeed... just GTFO of the plane. Even if you have full control over it, you aren't fighting the power of the working engine (which is at full power while the other is dead), it will produce too much yaw for you to counter, and you will lose the battle. You're better off explaining that to a Board of Inquiry then someone from your command explaining to your family why you won't be coming home.
For the love of all things holy, quit playing music during an air show. Everyone there wants to listen to airplane noise, not some scratchy version of crazy train.
He's flown that low and that slow hundreds, maybe even thousands of times in his career. Only this time did the aircraft suffer a mechanical failure that caused the right engine to stall
@@AB-mw8ozThat slow, probably. That low? I really doubt it. Doing a stupid trick for an airshow and I'm sure with full approval from the superiors. He's lucky got out of it with only scrapes and bruises. Most pilots who eject end up with life-long back issues from spinal compression.
@@slickraft Thats false. 99% of pilots who eject will sustain more injuries when they land than the ejection seat itself. This pilot in particular broke 3 vertebrae when he was dragged on the ground by his chute. Modern ejection seats are not like the ones from 50 years ago
This was in Lethbridge in 2010 during practice for the airshow. Right engine fuel control module quit when he went to power out of the high alpha pass. Left engine producing a ton of power, right engine producing nothing and over she went.
Just your basic diesel. Less pure even, turbines will drink anything that burns. Though Jet A 1 is probably not leftovers from the process :) but i claim any jet engine will run on "pump diesel". kerosene originally was the leftovers :)
Staying Alive playing in the background is the cherry on top.🤣🤣🤣
Yep
Jajajajajja😂😂
Lol
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Alternative title: "How to Stay Alive" by Martin-Baker
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This was not a stall. It was a mechanical malfunction. One of the pistons in one of the engines fuel pumps seized, causing the engine to suddenly not rise above flight idle even though the pilot had the throttle in full afterburner. This happened without warning while the aircraft was demonstrating a high angle of attack less than 100 meters from the ground. Due to that high AoA, the other engine, still functioning and having correctly risen to full afterburner when the other engine suddenly stopped matching thrust, began to push the aircraft into a sideways spin. This disrupted the airflow on the control surfaces and the aircraft began to depart from controlled flight in a way that could not have been corrected in those circumstances by any human being before impacting the ground. The pilot was found to not have been at fault and did suffer back injuries, typical of the high forces imparted during ejection and the not quite as decelerated as optimal impact with the ground due to the low altitude and the initially diagonal direction of the ejection, which the seat corrected.
Once on the ground, the wind inflated the parachute again before he could get it detached. He actually ended up getting dragged by the parachute in the wind (this video cuts before that) several hundred meters, sustaining more injuries in the process. Some of the rigging ended up wrapped around him during this, seriously restricting his ability to detach himself while he was being dragged on his belly head first.
Great info. Thanks.
Thank you for the explanation.
Maybe people think a!stall is an engine failure. The aircraft wing stalled as airspeed dropped to a stall speed. Engine malfunction did occur but a stall did occur.
@@747heavyboeing3 You're right, that could have been better worded and it makes it look like I was trying mislead people about it. What I meant was that the pilot did not cause the stall. Not all stalls lead to unrecoverable departure, but the high AoA low airspeed and altitude in this case did even though he still has the other engine. I think I was trying to emphasize that it was not a matter of pilot error as this was a rehearsal for an airshow later that day where it was planned for him to perform this maneuver (sans crash).
Спасибо понял.
7,500+ lives saved…..how many kids, grandkids and even great grandkids are alive today thanks to Martin-Baker
@user-nc7cf4sp1rToasted students
No more than it could be if the F18 wouldn't have left the production line LOL!
I couldn't think of a better song to go with that.
Maybe "Leavin' on a Jet Plane".
He survived but he had to have injuries. His parachute opened 100 feet from the ground and that was a very hard landing.
The music was the finishing touch...
Martin-Baker, my favorite furniture maker.
There's a timber merchant near here called 'Boulton-Paul'.
There are a few British aircraft manufacturers that were nearly exterminated by political decisions, and some only survived by going back to what they did before WWI.
I don't think people understand now smart, complex, and reliable these seats are. I've sat on one many times in the T-6 and never felt safer.
i know someone who took an unexpected ride atop one of them in a viper while it was in the hangar. Took him straight up to the roof. Not 100% sure how he managed to get not seriously injured in that one as I wasnt there, but he got 100% PTSD from it.
From memory the F-18 lost an engine and got below Vmca, ejection was the only option.
The rudder was ineffective due to the high Alpha (angle of attack). Once the right engine failed, the aircraft yawed to the right. This yawing action accelerated the left wing and slowed the right wing. More lift was created on the left wing, less lift on the right wing. The jet rolled to the right. Ailerons were ineffective at this high AoA, the rudder was useless - no airflow around the vertical fins. The only action that could have saved this aircraft was to reduce thrust on the operating engine and lower the nose to accelerate the jet to get more airspeed. Unfortunately, the aircraft is at 200 feet - not enough altitude to allow for a safe recovery to gain the necessary airspeed. The jet continue its un-commanded roll as the pilot commanded left aileron and left full left rudder inputs. Multi-engine pilots call this maneuver a Vmca demonstration. This one was, at best, an extreme example. The pilot realized that the aircraft is out of control and ejected at nearly the last second for a safe ejection. This maneuver was authorized by the pilot’s leadership. They knew and accepted the risks associated with this maneuver. It’s ironic that the theme song was “Stayin’ Alive”.
And not a moment too soon….or LATE!😮
Perfect music choice doesn’t exi…
Don't wait for the undertaker... Ignite your Martin Baker!
In Britain, it's called 'taking the Martin-Baker option'.
I think the other crew room phrase went something like:
When there's no turning back
Pull the yellow and black
Give thanks to your maker
And messers Martin and Baker
Great demonstration of how to stay alive, Martin Baker and RCAF
that is gold Staying Alive
Impressive camera work. These usually end with shaky views of the ground.
The staying alive in the backround😂😂
Imagine being in his shoes, the heat of the explosion and the whip-lash of the ejection
He hurt his back during the ejection. Last I read, the pilot cannot fly ejection seat aircraft anymore.
And hearing staying alive as you float down
sad bro.@@mcahill135
@mcahill135 He was flying f18s after recovering from this accident , and sitting in another ejection seat 💺
@@mcahill135 at least he's staying alive
Always remember, switching to your Martin-Baker ejection seat is faster than landing your aircraft to reload it....
Top Cash! ✈️ suitable music🎶 and glad the pilot lived to talk about it 👍
The ejection seat is an incredible invention. Dude ejected horizontally 1 second before impact and survived.
Who the hell is in charge of the playlist?
This is Martin Baker's official youtube channel
uploaded 3 years ago
I hope the pilot was alright and his career not tarnished in any way.
I could see the crowd say, "That was a cool ejection demonstration. "
Very appropriate choice of music.
0:27 R.I.P CF-18
Thanks for the timestamp, I was going NUTS trying to find that part of the video :D
when the pilot eject despite of aircraft banked, seat direct itself vertically,can ejection seat adjust itself to be vertical to the ground or it was just coincidence?
I believe its on purpose,I've seen quite a few ejections and and it's very rare that the seat doesn't turn turn upright when ejected in a bank
@@aidanbegovic9584 I'm late to the party, but if you watch closely the seat's flames, you can see that they are tilted in a way that makes the seat upright. So yeah, the seat adjusts itself, hats off to the engineers !
The small chute is an help to extract the main one and position the seat/pilot in the first instance. The rockets that push the seat out of the plane apply 8G to it in a straight manner.
Just as you observed, this type of seat obviously has the ability to "right itself" to thrust into the vertical. Notwithstanding that, you can see the aircraft slowing down, it must have been terrifying. I'm sure they were busy in the cockpit trying to get the engines to start making power again. In older aircraft no one would have survived after a wing stalls, in this case the right wing. But in this case, the ejection seat was able to put the ejection into the vertical direction, even after punching out when almost 90 degrees horizontal. Very very cool stuff. Lifesaving stuff.
Nope, the Mk14 seat does not have the ability to adjust its direction. It's simply fired up the seat rail and then boosted by the rocket pack. After that it's just plain old physics and gravity to determine its final direction@@shermancouch9964
The RCAF pulling out all the stops and dazzling the onlookers with their pyrotechnics show that's really quite believable. Hollywood should take notes.
Great Video! May I feature this video in my daily dose of aviation? Of course I'll link back to your video with full credit. Thanks!
This is almost frame by frame what happened at Paris Air Show 1989 to the Mig 29..even looks like they ejected from the same height..WOW
Once ejected does the pilot have any way to steer the parachute? If not, he was quite lucky to not have flown right into the blaze.
Not that low. If he was floating down for a bit he might have a little control but not much
A Harrier pilot once ejected and drifted into the fire of his crashed plane. Fortunately, the bits were quite far apart, and he ran for it, only slightly scorched.
Pilots have minimal control of their chutes. There have been cases where ejected pilots flew into the fireballs of their downed aircraft and burned to death.
oh no..... canada now only has one more of those left.
Canada has a military ?
It's ok, we've still got the Labatt's Blue hot air ballon somewhere.
Pretty much. Years of cutbacks and more money spent on bilingualism than the military has resulted in the military becoming a joke. Stop encouraging more immigration and instead meet and then exceed the 2.5%
@@kt3505 One of the most highly-skilled yet underfunded ever. The best snipers and land assault but given ancient hardware and not supported at all by the government. They are most concerned with pronouns than the people that protect their right to identify as a beach chair.
@@NihonKaikan So, basically , no military.
Did that ejection seat reposition itself towards the sky?
Yes they are designed that way
Su-30MK crash at Paris Air Show
Да, кресло уходит в верх.
Speed is life.. and altitude is life insurance.. this pilot had neither
Seen one high AoA demonstration, it's pretty, ofc it's dangerous. What you say is true, but when showing off, this is done.
When ya have Staying Alive playing in the background, good things happen!
That has got to be the beat of "best song to be randomly playing at the time."
Wow! That was a close call.
Martin Baker ejects a lot…
they really need to stop letting that guy fly
I am still surprised that the American fighter designers don't have the MDC, miniature detonation cord, around the canopy so that the pilot can eject through the canopy. It may only take a second or so waiting for the canopy to detach rather than instantaneously canopy shatter and the pilot goes through it, but as you saw here that extra second could mean the difference between life and death. I'm curious how any pilot or groundcrew thing about this?
An exploding canopy adds a million fast-moving shards of plastic to the situation.
Yes, the pilot may hit the canopy as he descends ( it HAS happened, the incident in the first 'Top Gun' film is based upon a real ejection ) and there are a dozen other dangers, not least compression of the spine, but in British aircraft designs, the MDC is standard.
If you look up on YT a newsreel film of a Supermarine Scimitar going off the side of an aircraft carrier, you will see why.
Basically, underwater, the canopy does not fly away from the plane, so bursting the canopy with an MDC is the best option.
The Blackburn Buccaneer had this for two reasons: the underwater problem already mentioned, and that the canopy was so long and heavy that the crew working together could barely move it, if the power failed.
Hey Martin, do you have an email address we can use to contact you regarding this video? I'd love to discuss a license to use this if possible! Cheers, Felix
Seen this before from another angle, and ffs, did that pilot not leave it really late.
CF18
Does Martin-Baker still give out neckties to those pilots their seats save?
I believe this is still the case.
Thousands of hours sitting on one; hard seat with a safe ride. Thanks Martin Baker, always felt safe in 0’-100kts one or 0’- 0 kts. one.
Silk ties. Interesting symbolism... rebirth through silk... parachutes were made of silk...
@@stevetheduck1425 exactly
That poor CF-18😢
RIP
not the stay alive in the backround playing 😂😂😂
Stayin allliivvveee 💀
Yeah, he very smartly stayed with it as long as he could!!!!
Nice job rookie!! You made it.
look at that engine just bouncing around in the fireball.. still spooling
Why did the plane suddenly tilt? Engine failure?
My guess is, he just went too far with it, he was probably already so slow and maybe a gust of wind made it stall
That's wild.@@cuijaalbino
@@cuijaalbino Too complex to Google? The starboard engine failed and he didn't have enough room to recover.
RH front tie rod broke obviously.
@@kt3505 🤣😆🤣
I've always thought this was a dangerous maneuver you see aircraft flying at airshows. It was just a matter of time until an accident such as this occurred and they will continue to occur until the performers give up demonstrating slow flight, high angle of attack maneuvers just above the ground.
Do some research.
Holy CRAP ! What happened?
Pilot forgot he was on a F-18 and not a Harrier
Cut the music!!
RCAF at a Lethbridge Alberta air show. The pilot walked away with a sore back.
Well, he joined the MB club. 🎉
What was the cause of the crash? Just a stall?
The low speed high angle was part of the demo. The starboard engine just quit on him, not enough altitude or energy to pull the plane out, so time to og.
@@nrauhauserCanadian military equipment having mechanical problems, who could've guessed.
The song caused it
That pilot is definitely not ok… there is no way his parachute slowed him down enough from that low to the ground. Doesn’t anyone know his injuries??
3 fractured vertebrae. Nothing too serious all things considering.
He hurt is back but nothing to serious. I'm pretty sure he was back in Hornets not long after this
Well you can tell by the way I spin, I have asymmetric thrust in my engines,
Rocket loud and canopy blooms, in second I'll be on the ground...
This seems like an overly expensive way to test jet fighter ejection seats, but I'm sure Martin-Baker and RCAF know better than me.
Bros chill Asf
Left behind power curve and no recivery chqnce?
its okey everyone i was the captan
plane was okey too small scratch
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what happen to F-18 crash...
how cause
the pilot thought he was on a Su-27. but the F-18 has lower thrust and worse aerodynamics. The main thing is that he remained alive.
And the Su-27 has better if one engine quits and the other continues on full power... right.
Now he gets his Bremont MBI watch
So he was doing a low speed maneuver and lost an engine? Cant imagine losing an engine would cause this during normal flight.
Well it’s not normal flight so it’s not relevant. Second a engine stops working it isn’t normal flight
@@adamatch9624 up until there's an issue it's normal flight 🙄
normal flight would have speed and altitude, airshow AoA showoff not. here in Finland, F-18's have landed with one engine shut off, even "engine burning" alarms on cockpit. Wasn't, but shut off for safety, the pilots know how to land on one. Or none, though that might be a bit difficult... not known for their glide properties.
Not a lot of reaction time there, and nothing the pilot could do.
Was this some type of loss of power? I don’t want to sound like an expert but the hornet should be able to pull those high AOA maneuvers *easier* than others. In my opinion the pilot either introduced the rudder / roll which doomed the maneuver, or some type of failure occurred which immediately hindered the jets ability and performance.
Did you read the comments explaining what happned?
whoa !!! its so close !!
Stayin Alive indeed
He got out, I bet it was hot being that close🥵
Wow that’s an expensive air show. No wonder the country is in so much debt. I don’t think it’s necessary to destroy an F-18 at every airshow to show off the ejection seats.
But the one fitted to James Bond's DB5 wasn't designed to save a life.
That's why grandma says: fill up the gas tank before you leave.
Ironic how staying alive is on haha!
Dangerous. Not sure why they need to do this in an old aircraft.
What was the pilot thinking? Great advert for Martin Baker though!
Engine failure in twin engine aircraft caused the it to become uncontrollable at too low a height to recover.
Not pilot, but a mechanical failure.
He was thinking "**** no power, eject..." (sometimes the human trait of assuming someone was at fault should be restrained).
Right engine failure. It was a life or death choice.
Pilot was thinking, "Oh fuck, engine failure and I'm low altitude - I'm gonna bail" and it took him not even a second to read and react to that. This is a manoeuvre where the plane isn't really flying with airspeed - pretty just sheer rocket propulsion is keeping it aloft.. You can see the plane dipping down once one of the engines failed and it was all over.
@@thomasrussell3924 I'm a little late to this, but... yeah... it is possible to recover from a single-engine failure.... but not in a Hornet, and not at that low altitude. Basically, each engine controls one set of systems, and it's the right engine that controls the hydraulics. Lose the Starboard engine, lose hydraulics, no control... buhbye. And it's not much better if you lose the left engine either.... as that's what powers the electrical systems. So if that goes, you lose your flight control computer, your HUD and MFDs, and all but your backup instruments and engine gauges... but without your FCS, the plane is very difficult to control, so it's probably best to pull the bug-out bars. But either way... you lose an engine at that low an altitude an airspeed... just GTFO of the plane. Even if you have full control over it, you aren't fighting the power of the working engine (which is at full power while the other is dead), it will produce too much yaw for you to counter, and you will lose the battle. You're better off explaining that to a Board of Inquiry then someone from your command explaining to your family why you won't be coming home.
I never understood why planes explode into a fireball as soon as their nose touches the ground? Isn’t the fuel located in the wings and engines?
Porque se hace añicos todo
1/100th of a second between the nose hit and fuel tank rupture and explosion.
Hell of a way to get a tie.
So close to hitting that canopy though...
Kudos to the the pilot, this could have gone very bad very quickly. In the end it is just a machine that can be replaced.
For the love of all things holy, quit playing music during an air show. Everyone there wants to listen to airplane noise, not some scratchy version of crazy train.
well he definitely "stayed alive"...
Yes, the ejection seat worked but why even risk these low and slow show-off flights?
Cause it’s cool and good training.
@@adamatch9624 Don't be a troll. Being "cool" gets pilots killed and if you need to train to fly slow then you do it 2-3 mistakes high.
He's flown that low and that slow hundreds, maybe even thousands of times in his career. Only this time did the aircraft suffer a mechanical failure that caused the right engine to stall
@@AB-mw8ozThat slow, probably. That low? I really doubt it. Doing a stupid trick for an airshow and I'm sure with full approval from the superiors. He's lucky got out of it with only scrapes and bruises. Most pilots who eject end up with life-long back issues from spinal compression.
@@slickraft Thats false. 99% of pilots who eject will sustain more injuries when they land than the ejection seat itself. This pilot in particular broke 3 vertebrae when he was dragged on the ground by his chute.
Modern ejection seats are not like the ones from 50 years ago
I hope they docked his paycheck every two weeks for 5,500 years.
Did you not read the comments explaining what happened?
@@gonebabygone4116 no, didn't
A new member of the 'Caterpillar Club'.....
Kind of an expensive way to demonstrate an ejection seat.
If it had been an ABBA song, he would have been killed!
Most ironic song ever?
He landed on the up swing.
That was a close escape for the F/A-18 pilot, it appears to have suffered a failure of its control hydraulics system.
This was in Lethbridge in 2010 during practice for the airshow. Right engine fuel control module quit when he went to power out of the high alpha pass. Left engine producing a ton of power, right engine producing nothing and over she went.
The quick thinking of the pilot and training saved his life in this case I remember hearing about this it was slight pilot error that caused this
bro thinks he is a f22 raptor
Talk about a thrill ride
and what do we hear on the background? ha ha ha ha stayin' alive stayin' alive 🙂
That jet fuel is no joke
Just your basic diesel. Less pure even, turbines will drink anything that burns. Though Jet A 1 is probably not leftovers from the process :) but i claim any jet engine will run on "pump diesel". kerosene originally was the leftovers :)
can u explain why armies use to have condoms in their stock?
Parachute didn't much, pilot ejected too late, i bet he broke some bones at the landing...
Awesome trick
Stayin' alive
The real danger would be, if you floated into the fireball. 😉
acrobacia aerea q NO se puede repetir 2 veces con el mismo avion😮
Just 1 second away from death💀