EE Lightning coming down

[UK_Widowmaker 571]

I remember this photo from 1962, of a pre-production Lightning crashing....amazing shot! (the Pilot Survived with several Broken Bones) when he smashed through a Greenhouse full of Tomatoes)

 

[macelena 1,070]

Glad he made it out, it seemed like he would smash the ground without the para opening. Guess partial aperture and thats why the broken bones. Had to be terryfying

[JediMaster 451]

I would call that ejecting too late!

[RogerSmith 72]

were the tomatoes ok? :p

[Derk 265]

Was at Alconbury iirc.....

[Lexx_Luthor 57]

Somewhere, there's a WW2 shot of a Stuka crashing into a town, well behind a building that was near the camera, and the Stuka is nosing down seemingly right into the chimney of the much nearer building.

[Lexx_Luthor 57]

...and it was crashing, nose vertically down and only about 500 feet high, far too low to pull out.

[+76.IAP-Blackbird 3,557]

Thats the way ketchup was inveted ...

[+Stary 2,427]

looking at this picture I'm allways amazed he didn't died in big ball of fire/debris being that close but I think perspective is at play here