RAF Harrier crash lands

[nudemetalz]

This happened May 2009 in Kandahar in Afghanistan,..apparently caused by a control malfunction.
Interesting how long he stayed with it before pulling on the Martin-Baker zero/zero !!

[Quasievil]

Shit that was cool, I guess from looking at it once the flames where around the cockpit he thought RIGHT TIME TO GO !!
Possibly not alot of fuel on board so maybe his original plan was to ride it out ? who knows

[Edbear]

Shit that was cool, I guess from looking at it once the flames where around the cockpit he thought RIGHT TIME TO GO !!
Possibly not alot of fuel on board so maybe his original plan was to ride it out ? who knows

Yup! Respect anyway!

[Ronin]

Only the British are classy enough to crash then eject.

[schrodingers cat]

Pretty impressed how high it shot him. They must go off with a wallop

[nudemetalz]

Pretty impressed how high it shot him. They must go off with a wallop

Here's the details on the ejection seat
http://www.martin-baker.com/products...--Harrier.aspx

Also here's a cool pic posted in the Daily Sun of the same "landing".....

[flyingcrocodile46]

If it shot him any lower the chute wouldn't have deployed quick enough to soften his landing. Concerns in that respect may explain why ge didn't eject till the flames were licking at him

[Usarka]

If it shot him any lower the chute wouldn't have deployed quick enough to soften his landing. Concerns in that respect may explain why ge didn't eject till the flames were licking at him

Worked as advertised. they're designed to work at zero feet / zero knots hence the zero/zero in the op....

Be fucked if you're going backwards at Lake Eyre in aus (-50ft)

[paturoa]

Guys in the fire trucks must have been wonderring what sort of bang bang stuff was on the plane as they got closer!

[toycollector10]

Hot and high (elevation 3312 ft above Mean Seal Level), a heavy aircraft, big sink rate and "a bit late on the round-out Hoskings" Ptwaaaang.....

My favourite below.

[Milts]

Insanely cool footage! Very rare to have footage of a modern fighter jet crashing and not exploding on impact. Shows just how solid the aircraft are, too.

I suspect he didn't eject earlier because although the seats will get you out alive at 0/0 as has been posted, they aren't exactly gentle on the human body: does seriously bad shit to your spine. I think if you're in three ejections during your career, you're no longer alowed to fly for health reasons?

[Hans]

Guys in the fire trucks must have been wonderring what sort of bang bang stuff was on the plane as they got closer!

Too right. They did look rather cautious, a?

[CookMySock]

Shit that was cool, I guess from looking at it once the flames where around the cockpit he thought RIGHT TIME TO GO !! Possibly not alot of fuel on board so maybe his original plan was to ride it out ? who knows

Often the tower will call it, as he has his hands full at the time. What is more interesting, is he walked away from the zero-zero seat - they can be fairly brutal.

Steve

[CookMySock]

Hot and high (elevation 3312 ft above Mean Seal Level), a heavy aircraft, big sink rate and "a bit late on the round-out Hoskings"

He could climb couldn't he? All good then!

I've been in a fletcher that wouldn't, and in a Cherokee six that needed a notch of flap to get over the fence.. Fun!

Steve

[marty]

Hot and high (elevation 3312 ft above Mean Seal Level), a heavy aircraft, big sink rate and "a bit late on the round-out Hoskings" Ptwaaaang.....

My favourite below.

not sink rate - just a long time between v1 and rotate...

I used to work with a guy who was a flight engineer on the first of the Air NZ 747-200s. Full and heavy out of LAX for AKL on a 25 departure (over the sand dunes) - could be up to 15 seconds between v1 and rotate, then the radar altimeter would give a " 50' " warning as NZ1 Heavy limped out over the sand dunes.

I have seen the AN124 take off out of Auckland full of America Cup boats and watch it be only 500' above Manukau City on the climb out. they sit at the end of the runway at full power for 60 seconds prior to takeoff - if the engines don't fail in that minute, they probably won't fail on the flight, so they're good to go....

http://www.airliners.net/photo/0884074/L/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhDMQOGy_oY

Galaxy seems to rotate a little earlier http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldP5f...eature=related

74-2 using it all.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXkSQ...eature=related