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pilot channeling the spirit of the background music. top ejection skillz. less top flying skills.

forum flying experts: pilot error cause crash? do you get quite a strong telling off if you bin a fighter jet needlessly?

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I wonder if there was some kind of failure?

That was obviously a practised manoeuvre, and the pilot should have been able to recover with a full after burn. 

Still, a bit embarrassing. I bet he got a ribbing when he turned up for afternoon cocktails at the officers club. 

 

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On 3/23/2019 at 1:57 PM, AndAnAnimal said:

pilot channeling the spirit of the background music. top ejection skillz. less top flying skills.

forum flying experts: pilot error cause crash? do you get quite a strong telling off if you bin a fighter jet needlessly?

It was a stall/spin obviously, but it sounded like he was on full noise and something like that should get up and go no matter what the wings are doing.

So to paraphrase. Dunno.

This actually happened a while ago and here's some more info on it.

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=75895

Basically, he went to climb away but one engine worked and the other didn't. The asymmetric thrust pitched him into a spin.

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