12.08.1997: The pilot of the F-14B was accidentally ejected from the aircraft during a landing aboard USS John C. Stennis. It's said that the Rio had an older GPS system they used to clip to the handle on top of their console. He hadn't stowed it prior to arrestment and during the violent stop from the hook/wire the GPS system got thrown forward from momentum and hit the pilots rocket motor iniator which bypassed the whole ejection system (pilot never touched the ejection handles ...) Next thing the pilot went THROUGH the canopy! He was recovered from the water by helicopter. Stennis personnel rescued the RIO from the pilotless aircraft as it sat on the flight deck with engines still running. Aircraft was repaired and is back in service.
***** According to what is available on the internet, both the pilot and the RIO had to be treated with minor injuries only. I guess both were quite surprised too and needed some explanation afterwards! :)
Yeah I imagine so! I bet that night was a brown shorts night for sure!. I would have loved to hear the pilot's version of this flight after a few beers at the O'Club. Thanks for the info. Cheers
Ah, that explains it, I thought the F-14 jettisoned its canopy before ejecting, and both seats are tied together so that if one ejects, the other does a half second later (although you can select a switch for only one to eject, that wouldn't be the case for a carrier landing). The ejection system was never activated, the flying GPS hit just the right part of the front seat rocket motor to set it off and fire the front seat into the air. The pilot is lucky, ejecting through the canopy can mess you up bad, sounds like he didn't got away with minor injuries.
I too was on this ship, USS John C. Stennis, CVN-74, April '97 - April '99. I remember this well and have told the story many times. My shop was on the 03 level (03-128-2-C), right underneath this and we watched it happen on Flightdeck TV. Pilot shot out, RIO unconscious, as the engines were still raising hell. Aircraft always land with the throttle down in case they miss the wire, which is called a bolter. They ended up spraying AFFF foam into the engine intakes to FOD it out. HS-5 was the helo squadron and there is always one circling during flight ops. They went and got the pilot out of the soup. RIO was treated and was okay, as well as the pilot. This was during work-ups for the ship's maiden voyage to the Persian Gulf, March - August '98. Bahrain, Jebel Ali (Dubai), Perth, Hobart, Pearl Harbor and re-homported in San Diego. We left Norfolk, VA and did an around the world cruise. I was 22.
trublkid I was there mopping the deck when this happened. I ended up holding my mop handle over the side of the ship so the pilot could grab on, and then we pulled him back up onto the ship. The F-14 engines wouldn't shut off, so we ended up roasting marshmallows in the afterburner and a couple of grilled cheeses. Eventually it got annoying so we just bulldozed it off the side of the ship. I managed to grab one of the Sidewinders as a souvenir though. Still have it sitting in my garage. Sometimes it makes a strange sound and I just whack it with a hammer until it shuts up. Probably will just put it on eBay.
Almost 6,000 people on board with the Air Wing. Makes sense that we might search it out on RUclips, no? Believe it or not if I was on it. Was just sharing my experience for anyone interested.
I was there myself, served with Lat/Con PLO" Swirlys" , USS J.C.Stennis. I never got the full story on this incident as I was dealing with more urgent matters at the time. What I heard was RIO internals went noxious and fumed him unconscious. Once the P.I.C. got sensory alerted he punched out.
NBC's Brian Williams was there when it happened. He said he dove overboard, swam to the pilot and then hauled him back on board by climbing the anchor chain.
The GPS not being stowed and being attached to the RIO's handhold makes sense. At the top rear of the seat, directly aft of t he pilots's headrest is an explosive gas cartridge. It's about 3-4 inches long and just under the diameter of a tennis ball. Looks like a giant bullet without the lead part. The cartridge is mounted at the top of a telescoping tube of three layers. This tube runs the length of the seats spine vertically. the cartridge is fired by a very simple mechanical spring loaded firing pin mechanism screwed to the top of the tube. This firing mechanism actually holds the cartridge in the top of the telescoping tube. Under normal operations the firing pin mechanism's is fired by pulling (forward) a firing pin retainer, looks like a wedged hook, out of the mechanism and the firing ping strikes the cartridge. This all happens after a chain of pyrotechnic events go off int the cockpit to prepare for ejecting (including jettison of the canopy). Likely what happened is the "GPS" hi this firing ping mechanism and set off the cartridge. The pilot if "shot" through the canopy and the rest of the remainder of the ejection sequence initiated. The rocket motor mounted under the seat pan is initiated by the same type of cartridge mechanism, but its firing mechanism is initiated by a lanyard attached to the deck of the cockpit. By the way, the seat and canopy are engineered so the crew can eject through the canopy if necessary. If you look closely in the video, you can see the upper sections of the telescoping tube extending vertically above the canopy frame out of the rear of the pilot's cockpit section.
Paddles talking to the pilot on final: "By the way, your wife is here on deck. She caught up to us by paddleboat, and she wants to know who Jessica is".
I think the Dewight D Eisenhower holds the record for lost F14's in one day. In 1983 we were in the Caribbean for ORE and lost 3 F14's on the same day. Two from VF142 and one from the squadron I was in VF143. Two were due to a midair VF142 jet decided to occupy the same airspace as a jet from VF143 and then VF142 lost one due to a combined hydraulic failure. A sad day we lost 2 pilots from VF142 in the midair. The other 4 were rescued.
unclesamtookmymoney Sam Think about it bro... Say those “yahoos” did happen to get on RUclips... It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that they might search out videos of the incident they once witnessed firsthand....😏
@Michael G And what are the possibilities that veteran searches up his or hers carrier where been working or something that happened there? Just because you are not served on this ship does not mean everybody havent been..
He ejected himself because right as he touched down the air traffic controller told him his wife knows about his side chick and she is waiting for him on the ship. He wanted to fly away but the hook caught the wire already, so the next best thing was to get the hell out of there and eject.
Question for U.S. Navy community: Am I correct to believe that the pilot and RIO's ankles are strapped with chords to the ejection seat, so that during an ejection, wires will pull their legs into the seat to avoid injury against the instrument panel on the way out? Thank you.
Actually, yes. As the seat leaves, their legs are pulled back against the seat and held in place until the seat man separation takes place. See www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmartin-baker.com%2Fproducts%2Fmk14-ejection-seat%2F&psig=AOvVaw20_m-bgQrxevv6CpEtd1JD&ust=1600547146285000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCKCty_LE8-sCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD
Did the pilot live? With going through the canopy like that I would assume that his neck was broke. I do not believe that there are breaking charges on 14s.
I was on the flight deck when this accident occurred. I served as a aircraft director aboard the Stennis from 1995-99. the H-60 blackhawk was there go gish him out of the water..
Wow, so the Jet is coming to an abrupt stop, and then the pilot gets ejected through the canopy, all within a second, or two...!? Pucker Factor off the charts, though probably didn't even have a chance, to even know wth just happened!?
Well nobody got hurt and they have to secure from flight quarters for investigation and safety standdown. So everyone working V1 was happy because it meant a rare night off from flying!!
I wonder how they got the engines to throttle down. Presumably he was ejected after he throttled the engines to full power, and then there was no one in the cockpit to shut them down. Was it the RIO?
@@bs56 Yeah but I mean he could have got out of his seat and climbed over. Someone had to get up there, unless there's some safety mechanism that turns them off after a while. Either that or they just had to wait for it to run out of fuel.
@@zZrEtRiBuTiOnZz Way too dangerous. If he was unstrapped and the hook or cable failed he would likely not survive and would have no chance to use the ejection seat
I was the guy under that Tomcat opening the panels. The RIO did suffer burns and cuts. He was flown off the carrier that night...he was okay other than that. we took the hook point off the tail hook and painted it up and gave it to him, because that's the only thing keeping him from rolling off the bow.
The RIO was still in the back, I believe unconscious. The Pilot was ejected through the canopy and landed in the water. He was OK. This was about September of 1997.
MrTarheelbud lol shouldnt you be washing a bird... or in a wheelwell greasing a gear... or how about lugging a cruise box full of tie down chains up a ladder. What were those full about 250-300#?
Can SOMEONE PLEASE!! explain what happened exactly! what were the reports! i know this post is from 2014 and i stumbled on it, but it has got my attention! thank you!
M Kefayati the pilot thought he thought the jet was going to fall of the deck, the limit accidently ejected while his back seated was still in there, the pilot was fished out.
read the first comment, it was posted to years ago. He didn't eject intentionally. "12.08.1997: The pilot of the F-14B was accidentally ejected from the aircraft during a landing aboard USS John C. Stennis. It's said that the Rio had an older GPS system they used to clip to the handle on top of their console. He hadn't stowed it prior to arrestment and during the violent stop from the hook/wire the GPS system got thrown forward from momentum and hit the pilots rocket motor iniator which bypassed the whole ejection system (pilot never touched the ejection handles ...) Next thing the pilot went THROUGH the canopy! He was recovered from the water by helicopter. Stennis personnel rescued the RIO from the pilotless aircraft as it sat on the flight deck with engines still running. Aircraft was repaired and is back in service."
The pilot of the F-14B was accidentally ejected from the aircraft during a landing aboard USS John C. Stennis. It's said that the Rio had an older GPS system they used to clip to the handle on top of their console. He hadn't stowed it prior to arrestment and during the violent stop from the hook/wire the GPS system got thrown forward from momentum and hit the pilots rocket motor iniator which bypassed the whole ejection system (pilot never touched the ejection handles ...) Next thing the pilot went THROUGH the canopy! He was recovered from the water by helicopter. Stennis personnel rescued the RIO from the pilotless aircraft as it sat on the flight deck with engines still running. Aircraft was repaired and is back in service.
The reason the pilot ejected is because right as the pilot touched down he got a message from the air traffic controller that his wife found out about his side chick and is waiting for him onboard the ship.
In a "normal" ejection where the plane is still traveling forward, the rearward air stream would push the ejected canopy clear of the cockpit area of the plane just prior to crew ejection. In a deep stall or flat spin, there is the possibility of the canopy hovering above the cockpit area while the crew is ejecting from the plane.
Accidentally ejected, hmmm, I think whoever builds this machine was much smarter than this excuse, I think the pilot was sure he is going over the fence in to the 💦 water,
12.08.1997: The pilot of the F-14B was accidentally ejected from the aircraft during a landing aboard USS John C. Stennis. It's said that the Rio had an older GPS system they used to clip to the handle on top of their console. He hadn't stowed it prior to arrestment and during the violent stop from the hook/wire the GPS system got thrown forward from momentum and hit the pilots rocket motor iniator which bypassed the whole ejection system (pilot never touched the ejection handles ...) Next thing the pilot went THROUGH the canopy! He was recovered from the water by helicopter. Stennis personnel rescued the RIO from the pilotless aircraft as it sat on the flight deck with engines still running. Aircraft was repaired and is back in service.
Doubtful, there are plenty of videos of traps wires breaking and aircraft going over the edge without the airspeed to get airborne again, everyone I've seen the pilots wait till there are past the deck edge before ejecting. Even if the Ejection system activated on its own, it would not look like that. The canopy would have jettison before ejecting, and then the other seat would have ejected a half second later. The video clearly shows the only the front seat fired and went through the canopy. Which is perfectly consistent with the explanation the first poster offered, the back seater's GPS wasn't secured and flew forward hitting the detonator for the front seat rocket motor, setting off the rocket motor and shooting the pilot through the canopy.
Is this some failed attempt at sarcasm? Landing on a carrier is way, way more difficult and scary than anything you would do in action in a fighter or strike aircraft, they measured the heart rates of pilots, and guess where they are highest? During carrier landings. Also he got the landing right a lose part struck his ejection seat motor during arresting, which was not the pilots fault. So either this was an attempt at a bad joke or you know very little about naval aviation.
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12.08.1997: The pilot of the F-14B was accidentally ejected from the aircraft during a landing aboard USS John C. Stennis. It's said that the Rio had an older GPS system they used to clip to the handle on top of their console. He hadn't stowed it prior to arrestment and during the violent stop from the hook/wire the GPS system got thrown forward from momentum and hit the pilots rocket motor iniator which bypassed the whole ejection system (pilot never touched the ejection handles ...) Next thing the pilot went THROUGH the canopy! He was recovered from the water by helicopter. Stennis personnel rescued the RIO from the pilotless aircraft as it sat on the flight deck with engines still running. Aircraft was repaired and is back in service.
***** According to what is available on the internet, both the pilot and the RIO had to be treated with minor injuries only. I guess both were quite surprised too and needed some explanation afterwards! :)
Yeah I imagine so! I bet that night was a brown shorts night for sure!. I would have loved to hear the pilot's version of this flight after a few beers at the O'Club. Thanks for the info. Cheers
Cos of a youtube bug when you're zoomed in. Report it and hope they'll one day fix it.
Ah, that explains it, I thought the F-14 jettisoned its canopy before ejecting, and both seats are tied together so that if one ejects, the other does a half second later (although you can select a switch for only one to eject, that wouldn't be the case for a carrier landing). The ejection system was never activated, the flying GPS hit just the right part of the front seat rocket motor to set it off and fire the front seat into the air. The pilot is lucky, ejecting through the canopy can mess you up bad, sounds like he didn't got away with minor injuries.
It hasn't been "in service" for a helluva long time now. The last of the F-14's were retired in 2006.
I too was on this ship, USS John C. Stennis, CVN-74, April '97 - April '99. I remember this well and have told the story many times. My shop was on the 03 level (03-128-2-C), right underneath this and we watched it happen on Flightdeck TV. Pilot shot out, RIO unconscious, as the engines were still raising hell. Aircraft always land with the throttle down in case they miss the wire, which is called a bolter. They ended up spraying AFFF foam into the engine intakes to FOD it out. HS-5 was the helo squadron and there is always one circling during flight ops. They went and got the pilot out of the soup. RIO was treated and was okay, as well as the pilot. This was during work-ups for the ship's maiden voyage to the Persian Gulf, March - August '98. Bahrain, Jebel Ali (Dubai), Perth, Hobart, Pearl Harbor and re-homported in San Diego. We left Norfolk, VA and did an around the world cruise. I was 22.
trublkid I was there mopping the deck when this happened. I ended up holding my mop handle over the side of the ship so the pilot could grab on, and then we pulled him back up onto the ship.
The F-14 engines wouldn't shut off, so we ended up roasting marshmallows in the afterburner and a couple of grilled cheeses. Eventually it got annoying so we just bulldozed it off the side of the ship.
I managed to grab one of the Sidewinders as a souvenir though. Still have it sitting in my garage. Sometimes it makes a strange sound and I just whack it with a hammer until it shuts up. Probably will just put it on eBay.
Almost 6,000 people on board with the Air Wing. Makes sense that we might search it out on RUclips, no? Believe it or not if I was on it. Was just sharing my experience for anyone interested.
I believe you but I'll be honest, Taskers comment did have me laughing
I was there myself, served with Lat/Con PLO" Swirlys" , USS J.C.Stennis. I never got the full story on this incident as I was dealing with more urgent matters at the time. What I heard was RIO internals went noxious and fumed him unconscious. Once the P.I.C. got sensory alerted he punched out.
Peter Bucha lmfao I’m rolling on the floor laughing at his comment
NBC's Brian Williams was there when it happened. He said he dove overboard, swam to the pilot and then hauled him back on board by climbing the anchor chain.
LMAO WWG1WGA
CNN (most trusted name in news) confirmed the story.
Was this before or after his 8 tours in 'Nam?
Al Gore invented water rescues.
No true at sea the anchor is up and stored , must be at flight ops to launch and receive aircraft!
Pilot afterwards: I still get credit for the trap, right?
3rd wire!
Hahahahahahaha
The GPS not being stowed and being attached to the RIO's handhold makes sense. At the top rear of the seat, directly aft of t he pilots's headrest is an explosive gas cartridge. It's about 3-4 inches long and just under the diameter of a tennis ball. Looks like a giant bullet without the lead part. The cartridge is mounted at the top of a telescoping tube of three layers. This tube runs the length of the seats spine vertically. the cartridge is fired by a very simple mechanical spring loaded firing pin mechanism screwed to the top of the tube. This firing mechanism actually holds the cartridge in the top of the telescoping tube. Under normal operations the firing pin mechanism's is fired by pulling (forward) a firing pin retainer, looks like a wedged hook, out of the mechanism and the firing ping strikes the cartridge. This all happens after a chain of pyrotechnic events go off int the cockpit to prepare for ejecting (including jettison of the canopy). Likely what happened is the "GPS" hi this firing ping mechanism and set off the cartridge. The pilot if "shot" through the canopy and the rest of the remainder of the ejection sequence initiated. The rocket motor mounted under the seat pan is initiated by the same type of cartridge mechanism, but its firing mechanism is initiated by a lanyard attached to the deck of the cockpit. By the way, the seat and canopy are engineered so the crew can eject through the canopy if necessary. If you look closely in the video, you can see the upper sections of the telescoping tube extending vertically above the canopy frame out of the rear of the pilot's cockpit section.
A bullet IS the 'lead part'. You mean a giant cartridge without the bullet!
Thanks for the detailed scene !
Pilot: Ah smooth landing, I can’t wait to... *woosh*
@Donald J.Trump landing smooth and pilot be like ight i ma head out
UHAUHUAHUAHUAHUHA
Abandon ship abandon ship
Paddles talking to the pilot on final: "By the way, your wife is here on deck. She caught up to us by paddleboat, and she wants to know who Jessica is".
VF-143 skipper: "Well?"
VF-143 Pilot: "There I was..."
Navy stuff. Never happens on Army carriers.
Scott Clark wtf is an army carrier ?
Scott Clark..good one!
It's a joke, guy.
Armoured Personnel Carrier, for example, the Vietnam era M113.
Tinokap wtf is a joke?
Never heard of such a thing.
I think the Dewight D Eisenhower holds the record for lost F14's in one day. In 1983 we were in the Caribbean for ORE and lost 3 F14's on the same day. Two from VF142 and one from the squadron I was in VF143. Two were due to a midair VF142 jet decided to occupy the same airspace as a jet from VF143 and then VF142 lost one due to a combined hydraulic failure. A sad day we lost 2 pilots from VF142 in the midair. The other 4 were rescued.
When your plane says, “ ah hell no, get the hell out”
😂😂😂
When y gotta go you gotta go
Talk about two extremes at one time...coming in hot for landing, catches wire, and slows down, followed by EJECTION!!
"You even say "huh," you'll be talking to yourself... 'cause I'll be gone."
Word!
Why they placed the cigarette lighter knob right next to the eject was a stupid idea. :)
I was on deck when this happened. It happened very fast...my night vision took a little while to recover! Luckily, no one was seriously injured.
where is pilot ?
Sure you were... gotta love all these fake wannabes
unclesamtookmymoney Sam Think about it bro... Say those “yahoos” did happen to get on RUclips... It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that they might search out videos of the incident they once witnessed firsthand....😏
@Michael G And what are the possibilities that veteran searches up his or hers carrier where been working or something that happened there? Just because you are not served on this ship does not mean everybody havent been..
Hmmmm I have no evidence to the contrary, but I will denigrate you and make fun of you for providing your experience
Getting off the plane like a boss.
Dangerous business, my respect.
Must have scared the holy shit out of the pilot to be randomly ejected like that!
I imagine there was a much needed change of underwear after this. So glad everybody was okay. I guess the RIO's GPS was stowed properly after this?
TheWaywardWind I would certainly hope so! Glad nobody was seriously hurt
He ejected himself because right as he touched down the air traffic controller told him his wife knows about his side chick and she is waiting for him on the ship. He wanted to fly away but the hook caught the wire already, so the next best thing was to get the hell out of there and eject.
Aviation Nut We know, you left the same comment above
@@thewaywardwind548 My guess is that Martin-Baker had some explaining to do as well
he is my father and he is well right now : )
He is my son and I remember spanking my grandson to bits
@@blackbird4062 lmao
@@yamcha8309 That makes it three of us!!!
Just landed , great landing....wham.. where am I?
Incredible footage.
Question for U.S. Navy community: Am I correct to believe that the pilot and RIO's ankles are strapped with chords to the ejection seat, so that during an ejection, wires will pull their legs into the seat to avoid injury against the instrument panel on the way out? Thank you.
NEGATIVE!! WOULD BREAK THEIR LEGS....PILOT'S.
Actually, yes. As the seat leaves, their legs are pulled back against the seat and held in place until the seat man separation takes place. See www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmartin-baker.com%2Fproducts%2Fmk14-ejection-seat%2F&psig=AOvVaw20_m-bgQrxevv6CpEtd1JD&ust=1600547146285000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCKCty_LE8-sCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD
Yes accurate
The pants were never seen again
Tryrose , pretty sure they would've been ruined anyway.
Beyond the abilities of even the most skilled of dry-cleaners to get the brown stains out.
Sometimes you screw the pooch, sometimes the pooch screws you.
"Tower, I need a change of underwear and a stiff drink, copy?"
Did the pilot live?
With going through the canopy like that I would assume that his neck was broke.
I do not believe that there are breaking charges on 14s.
Ejection seats are designed to punch through the canopy in the event it doesn't jettison
He wanted that exclusive Martin Baker watch
Driver: “Someone call the flight surgeon, I need my zoom bag surgically removed from my a$$.”
when you press the eject key instead of cut power key in a plane game
I was on the flight deck when this accident occurred. I served as a aircraft director aboard the Stennis from 1995-99. the H-60 blackhawk was there go gish him out of the water..
Dave Delk A lot of people call the navel variant a "Sea Hawk".
Wouldn't that be a Lint Hawk?
Officially they are Seahawks. Even the ones that are officially Oceanhawk and Knighthawk, we still call them Seahawks.
Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehe
Dave Delk Did the pilot survive, Dave?
Well that's a different take on a touch n go
Haha yup. Thinks he's performed a pretty good landing and millisecond later he's up in the air again
Wonder how the LSO’s graded that pass?? I bet there was at least a comment in the log book.
I'm sure they changed that pilot's callsign to Goose after that, lol
RIO: Last one in the shower's a bitch
Pilot: Say no more!
imagine his face when it happened, i bet he was never so confused before or after this ;D
i have always said the F14 had just 1 design flaw - THE GIB...... this proves it...
Wow, so the Jet is coming to an abrupt stop, and then the pilot gets ejected through the canopy, all within a second, or two...!? Pucker Factor off the charts, though probably didn't even have a chance, to even know wth just happened!?
The chopper knew exactly where the pilot ended up in the drink. There was a large brow stain in the water surrounding him 👍😃
Well nobody got hurt and they have to secure from flight quarters for investigation and safety standdown. So everyone working V1 was happy because it meant a rare night off from flying!!
That would've been rare....I was in V-1 when I was in on the Nimitz 77-81
I wonder how they got the engines to throttle down. Presumably he was ejected after he throttled the engines to full power, and then there was no one in the cockpit to shut them down. Was it the RIO?
No, Rio has no Flight control or throttle control.
@@bs56 Yeah but I mean he could have got out of his seat and climbed over. Someone had to get up there, unless there's some safety mechanism that turns them off after a while. Either that or they just had to wait for it to run out of fuel.
@@zZrEtRiBuTiOnZz Way too dangerous. If he was unstrapped and the hook or cable failed he would likely not survive and would have no chance to use the ejection seat
"I think I'll go for a swim"
nut's did somebody just shout last orders at the bar
*In USA, the cat tom's you!*
When you land safely but really need to use the bathroom
When you lose a bet to your RIO and don't wanna pay up
pilot:ok, very funny guys! who change the lever?
Did he catch the 3 wire?
Dude, that’s insane
The Gus Grissom of the U.S. Navy.
most underrated comment in here !
Are you a turtle?
Thats some old school shit.
Crazy
Not as sharp as my copy due to the 240p upload, but slightly longer.
Wow how crazy was that I was there. Part of vs31 I didn't see it but I heard the call
u was there really ?
Touch and go.
That’s a whoopsie!
what are the guys doing tehre at the end?
fetB , trying to stop the engines.
thanks
I remember that
0:24 PUKIN DOGS ^^
VF 84 forever
@@philmontejano5971 Jolly Rogers.
I missed the ejection. Where is it?
Joseph Smith
At about 0:04 , screen goes white then sparks
I looked several times,,I missed it also?
Is he died?
i'm quite surprise that the rio didn't get cook by the pilot's seat rocket
I was the guy under that Tomcat opening the panels. The RIO did suffer burns and cuts. He was flown off the carrier that night...he was okay other than that. we took the hook point off the tail hook and painted it up and gave it to him, because that's the only thing keeping him from rolling off the bow.
Goose survived this one...
Officers assisting Officers
I was Plane Captain Trainee when this happened.
MrTarheelbud what happened then and what happened to the rear cabin?were both ejected?
The RIO was still in the back, I believe unconscious. The Pilot was ejected through the canopy and landed in the water. He was OK. This was about September of 1997.
MrTarheelbud lol shouldnt you be washing a bird... or in a wheelwell greasing a gear... or how about lugging a cruise box full of tie down chains up a ladder. What were those full about 250-300#?
I remember, I was training under Bradford.
Why'd he chose to do that?!?!
Panthergamer 23 he did not
Can SOMEONE PLEASE!! explain what happened exactly! what were the reports! i know this post is from 2014 and i stumbled on it, but it has got my attention!
thank you!
M Kefayati the pilot thought he thought the jet was going to fall of the deck, the limit accidently ejected while his back seated was still in there, the pilot was fished out.
Nate who likes aviation finally! Thank you!
M Kefayati my pleasure
read the first comment, it was posted to years ago. He didn't eject intentionally.
"12.08.1997: The pilot of the F-14B was accidentally ejected from the aircraft during a landing aboard USS John C. Stennis. It's said that the Rio had an older GPS system they used to clip to the handle on top of their console. He hadn't stowed it prior to arrestment and during the violent stop from the hook/wire the GPS system got thrown forward from momentum and hit the pilots rocket motor iniator which bypassed the whole ejection system (pilot never touched the ejection handles ...) Next thing the pilot went THROUGH the canopy! He was recovered from the water by helicopter. Stennis personnel rescued the RIO from the pilotless aircraft as it sat on the flight deck with engines still running. Aircraft was repaired and is back in service."
Nate who likes aviation Lmao you don't eject when you're falling off the deck. It's mor power
This is your jet, I quit 😅😅😅
The aircraft didn’t like how the pilot handled it during the flight.
Kind of like the LoveBug car 53.
Looks like an F15
Jeremy Hess relax dude
@@nanocoma looks like a F-14 lol
Why did he eject?
The pilot of the F-14B was accidentally ejected from the aircraft during a landing aboard USS John C. Stennis. It's said that the Rio had an older GPS system they used to clip to the handle on top of their console. He hadn't stowed it prior to arrestment and during the violent stop from the hook/wire the GPS system got thrown forward from momentum and hit the pilots rocket motor iniator which bypassed the whole ejection system (pilot never touched the ejection handles ...) Next thing the pilot went THROUGH the canopy! He was recovered from the water by helicopter. Stennis personnel rescued the RIO from the pilotless aircraft as it sat on the flight deck with engines still running. Aircraft was repaired and is back in service.
Tortue CH :damned!
He already saw the movie.
Uss truman
The reason the pilot ejected is because right as the pilot touched down he got a message from the air traffic controller that his wife found out about his side chick and is waiting for him onboard the ship.
wait, who are you saying is waiting for him on the boat: the air traffic controller, the wife, or the side chick?
Just hover it in! VSTOL
First goose and now this?? Poor RIO's...
My dad's squadron Pukin dogs
So how much money did the RIO get from the crew for ejecting the wise ass pilot?
Hmm wonder why they quit using the F-14?
@Jeremy Hess To be fair, the Tomcats sold to Iran were Block 95s sold to the Shah just before he took ill.
Salvage ... Crapheap... for loss of Major Malfunction.
Ha ha oooppps
oops
Such rubbish, if the pilot went through the canopy and survived. How the hell did Goose break his neck when he ejected ?
Ummmmmm...it was a movie would be my first guess.
Dale Thelander - thanks, although maybe that was me having a too subtle dig at Top Gun
@@velocitymg Well...it IS a Tony Scott film. Rest his soul.
In a "normal" ejection where the plane is still traveling forward, the rearward air stream would push the ejected canopy clear of the cockpit area of the plane just prior to crew ejection. In a deep stall or flat spin, there is the possibility of the canopy hovering above the cockpit area while the crew is ejecting from the plane.
ROFL can someone make a meme out of this?
Accidentally ejected, hmmm, I think whoever builds this machine was much smarter than this excuse, I think the pilot was sure he is going over the fence in to the 💦 water,
12.08.1997: The pilot of the F-14B was accidentally ejected from the aircraft during a landing aboard USS John C. Stennis. It's said that the Rio had an older GPS system they used to clip to the handle on top of their console. He hadn't stowed it prior to arrestment and during the violent stop from the hook/wire the GPS system got thrown forward from momentum and hit the pilots rocket motor iniator which bypassed the whole ejection system (pilot never touched the ejection handles ...) Next thing the pilot went THROUGH the canopy! He was recovered from the water by helicopter. Stennis personnel rescued the RIO from the pilotless aircraft as it sat on the flight deck with engines still running. Aircraft was repaired and is back in service.
Doubtful, there are plenty of videos of traps wires breaking and aircraft going over the edge without the airspeed to get airborne again, everyone I've seen the pilots wait till there are past the deck edge before ejecting.
Even if the Ejection system activated on its own, it would not look like that. The canopy would have jettison before ejecting, and then the other seat would have ejected a half second later. The video clearly shows the only the front seat fired and went through the canopy. Which is perfectly consistent with the explanation the first poster offered, the back seater's GPS wasn't secured and flew forward hitting the detonator for the front seat rocket motor, setting off the rocket motor and shooting the pilot through the canopy.
If the seat motor fired independant of the system, this would have happened..bypassed the ejection firing train..
If you can't even get the landing right on a aircraft carrier.... how the hell are you qualified to fly and make decisions in war?
Is this some failed attempt at sarcasm? Landing on a carrier is way, way more difficult and scary than anything you would do in action in a fighter or strike aircraft, they measured the heart rates of pilots, and guess where they are highest? During carrier landings. Also he got the landing right a lose part struck his ejection seat motor during arresting, which was not the pilots fault. So either this was an attempt at a bad joke or you know very little about naval aviation.