Title: Re: Eurofighter crashes into ocean at airshow
Post by: Bruv119 on September 27, 2017, 05:47:00 PM
schiesse... :(
Title: Re: Eurofighter crashes into ocean at airshow
Post by: ghi on September 27, 2017, 10:14:25 PM
Terrible! I'm guessing the pilot didn't make it . :pray
Title: Re: Eurofighter crashes into ocean at airshow
Post by: Nefarious on September 28, 2017, 09:27:10 AM
Italian Typhoon?
Title: Re: Eurofighter crashes into ocean at airshow
Post by: Vulcan on September 28, 2017, 02:16:35 PM
yup
Quote
On Sunday Sept. 24, 2017, an Italian Air Force Eurofighter F-2000A Typhoon (most probably MM7278/RS-23) belonging to the Reparto Sperimentale Volo (Test Wing) has crashed into the sea at Terracina, 76 kilometres south of Rome. Based on the several videos that have already emerged on social media, the pilot Capt. Gabriele Orlandi, for unknown reasons, was unable to /did not recover the aircraft at the end of a looping and didn’t attempt to eject from the jet.
Read more at https://theaviationist.com/2017/09/24/italian-eurofighter-typhoon-crashes-during-terracina-airshow-killing-test-pilot/#ieJBszuHSJgLsCVq.99
Title: Re: Eurofighter crashes into ocean at airshow
Post by: icepac on September 30, 2017, 07:06:19 PM
Man......looks like youtube changed their compression algorithm from something OK to something that sucks.
Title: Re: Eurofighter crashes into ocean at airshow
Post by: DaveBB on September 30, 2017, 08:51:54 PM
I think now that the pilot was either conscious and entered the split-S too low or was semi-conscious and didn't retard the throttles when entering the maneuver. Either way, tragic loss of life.
Title: Re: Eurofighter crashes into ocean at airshow
Post by: Vraciu on September 30, 2017, 09:10:51 PM
There was another Eurocanard lawn dart a few months ago. He was doing a roll and poof.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7u4cJLN-Xg
And...
Action at 0:26.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Zyrvojy3g
Title: Re: Eurofighter crashes into ocean at airshow
Post by: Puma44 on October 01, 2017, 10:12:56 AM