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F-15 Loses right wing and pilot lands it safely. (video)
Posted: 08 Dec 2006, 12:36
by Softball
Found this link over at SimHQ. This is so amazing, I just had to post about it here.
An F-15 loses its right wing and the pilot landed safely.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b5a79a516c
Posted: 08 Dec 2006, 12:59
by Buffalo Six
yep I seen that vid. Funny this about it. It was IAF doing dis-simular 1v2 ACM training. After the mid air, the pilot used the throttle to keep it in the air and was very hot over the ramp, but got it stopped and all that. Afterwards they put a in-flight support call into McD, giving the situation, but didnt tell them the plane had already landed. After the in-flight emergancy team came back and said to "un-ass" the aircraft, the IAF guys said that the plane landed safely. McD called BS, and the IAF sent them the vid.
Posted: 08 Dec 2006, 13:03
by Buffalo Six
ok, after the fact, I watched the vid, and it is the one I saw a while ago, is there sound on it? I'm at work and no sound on this PC.
Everything I posted above my be covered in the vid.
Posted: 08 Dec 2006, 16:45
by Softball
Yes, there is sound and an explination to what happened. There are interviews with the pilot in the vid.
Posted: 09 Dec 2006, 14:02
by VEGETA
Ok I believe its the same situations you aare talking aoout buff, but I could be wrong. but looks liek the damage I have seen in other photos and same wing missing.
Posted: 09 Dec 2006, 18:52
by Hammer
this video has been around a while... i think it was even posted here before. pretty cool that it was still able to fly.
Posted: 09 Dec 2006, 22:13
by VEGETA
Cool, Man its amazing lol. I am betting if he had to lose a few more inches off the thing or even damaged the air intake of that engine (what was giving him the list0 he would have been ejecting. Tho atleast he got the other guy
Posted: 09 Dec 2006, 22:24
by Hammer
it was practice air to air - that means the other guy was on his side...
Posted: 11 Dec 2006, 06:32
by VEGETA
I know, but he still got him
tho I do wish to know if the other guy ejected, never heard in the video and even tho I have known about this one for a while now, I have never known the fate of the other guy, hope he did get out.
Posted: 11 Dec 2006, 10:58
by Softball
After watching the video again, I saw what looked like a pilot ejecting from the exploding plane (right side of screen). It looked like an ejection seat with the pilot still in it, but I'm not 100% sure if that's what that is. If it is the pilot, that doesn't necessarily mean he survived the crash. I wonder if he did make it out safely?