Author Topic: F16 Crashed Today (Read 464 times)

Sandman · « **on:** July 17, 2001, 08:23:00 PM »

http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/07/17/f16.crash/index.html

Mickey1992 · « **Reply #1 on:** July 18, 2001, 07:32:00 AM »

....and another one today. 30 Million down the drain. At least the pilot survived.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010718/ts/crash_turkey_dc.html

pugg666 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 18, 2001, 09:09:00 AM »

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The pilot had ejected before the crash, near the city of Batman

a city named batman??

thank cod the pilot is alright though

Toad · « **Reply #3 on:** July 18, 2001, 09:22:00 AM »

10 years enforcing the "no-fly zone" in Iraq and covering the Yugoslavian "peace-keeping" forces has put a lot of time on the fighter force airframes and engines. Far more than routine training would during the same decade.

I think we've been lucky so far that we haven't had more engine failures. I also thought that the decision for single engine over multi engine was a mistake back when it was made. That was the old F-100 fighter guys as generals.

An F-18 would have made it back, most likely, after suffering a single engine failure. End cost on an -16 vs -18 isn't all that great. Cost difference gets huge when you lose one due to single engine failure though.

texace · « **Reply #4 on:** July 21, 2001, 01:40:00 AM »

Believe me, there is nothing worse inflight to hear nothing but silence. It has happend to a friend of mine once. He was able to set it down at a private airfield (Cessna 140) but the gear collapsed and he ended up breaking the left wing spar.

Engine failure usually doesn't cause a crash if the pilot is able to glide to a base. But in the mountians he couldn't have gone anywhere...