CF-18 Crash in Southern Alberta

[raptorman]

The demo CF-18 has crashed at the Lethbridge Airshow during a practice flight. Pilot looks OK it seems...

 

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2010/07/23/lethbridge-crash-cf18-airshow-military-plane-alberta.html

 

Raptorman

[raptorman]

Video of the crash:

 

http://www.globaltvcalgary.com/video/index.html?releasePID=g6ihggqtRaczkJaL7DG_v5ckO0aQVzpD

[+Typhoid]

looks like he was doing a low-slow pass and got a little too slow while low.

 

looks like he got out ok.

 

[+hgbn]

Yeah the rest is just metal

[Atreides]

Glad to know the pilot is ok but the crash leaves us with what ? Two

[Silverbolt]

More photos here:

 

http://g1.globo.com/mundo/fotos/2010/07/piloto-ejeta-se-e-sobrevive-queda-de-aviao-no-canada.html

[Nesher]

got out in the last second... lucky guy

awesome pictures from the crash...!!

[Rambler 1-1]

Was that a CF-18 doing the Sabre Dance? Damn... Glad he got out okay.

 

... but the crash leaves us with what ? Two

 

Don't worry, man! We have 65 F-35s on the way!

Edited July 24, 2010 by Rambler 1-1

[Cali]

Was that a CF-18 doing the Sabre Dance? Damn... Glad he got out okay.

 

 

 

Don't worry, man! We have 65 F-35s on the way!

 

 

Yea, but how long is that gonna take? and who gets the first ones?

[+JediMaster]

Not sure about the delivery order, but we're supposedly only 5 yrs away from the A version IIRC.

[gosquidgo]

Did you hear the chick at the end of the video? "Was that supposed to happen? Was that the Tora Tora?" Wow, kids these days. Glad the pilot got out ok.

[smokey799]

Read in the news today that one of the bystander heard two or three 'pop's right before the crash.

Blade failure or ate a bird is my guess...

 

Hope the pilot does okay in the crash investigation.

 

Heard on the radio that he considers his martin-baker ejection seat his new best friend.

Does the company still hold the party for user of their product?

[Rambler 1-1]

Looked to me like plain old compressor stall. Usually there's a puff of smoke or flame with a bird strike or blade failure. Then again, I have been wrong before.

 

The video on the Global TV Calgary site is a good one, but I can't hear the engines over the Bee-Gees that were playing on the loudspeakers...

[Hokum]

Looks to me thet he didn't have enough beans and plain stalled it. The aircraft looked a little unstable just after he nosed up. Glad the pilot escaped ok and didn't land in his own wreckage!

[smokey799]

I'll go with Rambler on the compression stall.

 

From what I know about the hornet, it has little

In the way of AoA limitations....assuming it has

Thrust, it just won't stall - pancake? He'll yes, but not

Stall.