Lucky escape...

[Uther]

Pilot ejected at the last second there...

Failed landing sees pilot eject as military jet nosedives on to runway in Texas

Video taken by people who were watching the plane come in show it slowly descending in a straight line as smoke appears in the rear of the aircraft before the nose digs into the runway and the jet spins to a stop.

news.sky.com

 

[Lysander]

Nah, looked fine. Just a bit bouncy.

 

[NVP]

Lucky escape? More like overly dramatic exit! Man could have just popped his seatbelt and hopped down the ladder loooool

 

[Terminal_Boy]

That’ll buff right out.

 

[Armageus]

Another fault with the F35... about normal these days

 

[Efour]

F35 next generation crashing machine.

Bit of a judgement call ejecting lol looks silly afterwards.

 

[Ali195]

Eeek, each time of those 4th++ or 5th gen planes crashes all I see is tens of millions, if not hundreds up in smoke.

 

[Deleted User 298457]

Lucky escape? More like overly dramatic exit! Man could have just popped his seatbelt and hopped down the ladder loooool

Definitely a hindsight thing though right, lol?

 

[randomshenans]

"Sorry, I pressed eject instead of the parking brake"

 

[aVdub]

Looks like that panic moment where you press every button in the hope something will make it better.

 

[Deleted User 298457]

"Sorry, I pressed eject instead of the parking brake"

"And just before, the bit where the nose hit, I was reaching for the radio 'off' button and hit the 'do a spin on the nose cone button'" :sadface:

 

[tom_e]

Surely at that point it was probably more dangerous to eject and not have the chute open properly than just wait it out

 

[StriderX]

The problem with these increasingly automated aircraft going wrong is that when a system you can't access or is difficult to access quickly messes up during a rather dangerous part of a flight the decision to eject ends up being the only conclusion available as the pilot hardly has the time to call support staff due to a bug in the coding.

 

[Chuk_Chuk]

Surely at that point it was probably more dangerous to eject and not have the chute open properly than just wait it out

I thought the same, but I guess it depends on what failure the system was reporting to the pilot. Maybe the eject mechanism has an automated engine cutoff which was what caused the plane to stop shortly after ejection.

 

[Hades]

 

[Uther]

Surely at that point it was probably more dangerous to eject and not have the chute open properly than just wait it out

Got to be a difficult decision because you know there's a good chance you'll hurt yourself ejecting on the ground.

 

[Trifid]

F35 next generation crashing machine.

Bit of a judgement call ejecting lol looks silly afterwards.

I'm sure watching it back will make any associated back pain from the eject all the more frustrating.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

Another fault with the F35... about normal these days

And the US Army is planning to replace their Blackhawk fleet with a version of the Osprey, that tilt wing mess which has killed more US Marines than the Iraqis did.

 

[builder22]

it sounds and moves like a really old flight game but with amazing graphics

 

[nst68]

Does the seat have it's own parachute?

If not then it could ruin someones day!