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WTF!!! (French Airforce FUBAR)

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james_s:

--- Quote from: shakalnokturn on April 11, 2020, 12:38:16 pm ---I'm sure they enjoy their job, just I don't enjoy them doing their job.
Now having a couple of hints on how seriously the elite are doing their job over our heads, yes F... them!

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I think you might feel differently if your country didn't have a well trained and practiced military and some other nation decided to invade. I mean it's not like that's ever happened before...

Gixy:
Hi,
Positive g's were not the really the problem. There was a lot of carelessness at the time of the installation on board: harness not tighten, helmet not locked and visor not lowered during take-off, and not even a briefing to explain the guy the emergency procedures. After pulling approx 4g, the pilot recovered horizontal flight by pushing slight negative g: then the passenger, not well attached on his seat, got scared when he got out of his seat and pull the first thing he found, unfortunatelly the ejection seat handle...

tszaboo:

--- Quote from: langwadt on April 12, 2020, 01:59:41 am ---as far as I know many rollercoaster are 4g, I think the -0.6g feels much worse

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RC has much shorter high G seactions than a jet. And negative G is definetly worse. I had red eye/tunnel vision while pulling negative G in a Antonov An-2, cant imagine how much worse it could be in a jet.

I have the feeling, that all this is happening due to the younger generation taking over maintenance and pilot positions. Yes, they are my generation. Recklessly fooling around with military equipment. They never had to face war or any serious situation, cold war is over, attention is gone. I mean, look at this other incident:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a23793250/belgium-f-16-accidentally-destroys-another-f-16/



--- Quote ---The incident took place at Florennes Air Base in the afternoon of October 11 **. Two maintainers working on Belgian Air Force F-16AM fighter jet accidentally fired the plane’s M61 20-millimeter, six barreled Gatling gun. The 20-millimeter cannon rounds struck another F-16AM sitting nearby that was fueled up and prepared for flight. The resulting fire and explosion completely destroyed the fighter. A second fighter parked nearby suffered light damage.
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** 2018

SkyMaster:
So, what kind of sanction did the pilot receive?

 :)

SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: magic on April 12, 2020, 06:07:39 am ---On the upside, imagine what would happen if both ejection seats fired and they lost the aircraft in such idiotic circumstances :-DD

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Yeah, the technical fault with the ejection system actually saved the plane here ;D.

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