Thunderbird F-16 cockpit video of ejection at Mountain Home AFB crash.

[davidpt40]

I can hear a jet engine going until the F16 hits the ground and it stops as the aircrafts explodes.

[midnight Target]

Originally posted by FUNKED1
To all the armchair accident investigators, his engine quit.

Bah!

He immeled into a split S yoyo with a full power yank and bank into the barrel roll... obvious!

[Gunslinger]

He was doing a loop and lost power at the top.  As anyone that knows anything about F-16s they know they turn into lawn darts when they lose an engine.

Yes the ejection seat worked perfect, the ACES II performed a text book mode 1 (low alt) ejection.  I work on ejection seats for a living and it is really good to see when the equipment that I work on that we cant really test out works as advertised.

[jigsaw]

I got it from a thread in rec.aviation.piloting with the subject EJECT!. Started off as a decent thread, but quickly digressed into a p*ssing contest over who knew the most about ejection seats.

Someone posted search links with more info;

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chris+stricklin+crash


http://tinyurl.com/ylov

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by davidpt40
I can hear a jet engine going until the F16 hits the ground and it stops as the aircrafts explodes.

Are you sure from that link....I didnt get any sound...anyone else get sound?

[Bodhi]

Originally posted by davidpt40
I can hear a jet engine going until the F16 hits the ground and it stops as the aircrafts explodes.

davidpt, your perpensity for proving yourself a jackprettythang is unsurpassed.

FYI, when a turbine engine quits....  unless it catastrophically comes apart, or seizes, it continues to turn, hence the noise.  

Lastly, I have yet to hear sound in that video, you must be better than the rest... me thinks your just a butthead wannabe...

[Maverick]

I had no sound at all in the vid sequence. davidpt40 is just being his usual worthless self. In looking at the stills from another link you can see jet exhast flames in the first still. In the next which is the ejection still there is no visible exhaust and the previous frame looked like the AB was on.

Anyhow the AF has all the help they need deciding how this happened. They certainly don't need the armchair "generals" like davidpt40 trying to out voss, voss.

[Dinger]

the rm file has audio, but it's shot from some distance away.  So you do hear jet noises, but it's not distinct.  There are 5 other F16Cs flying around and 85,000 people around the cameradude, so it's hard to say.

The first of the still pictures in the series says it's shot 4 seconds before impact, and shows what looks like full burner.
The next one shows the seat burning, the canopy in the air and heat distortion from the exhaust of the jet, but no burner.

I saw no news stories mentioning a flameout.

[FUNKED1]

Actually pretty much every article I've seen mentions engine failure.

[Dinger]

Okay, AP wire story states witnesses thought it suffered engine failure. I could find no official determination.

[FUNKED1]

Yeah me neither. Witnesses are pretty unreliable.  Plenty of other USAF F-16 crash reports out there but nothing for this...

[Raubvogel]

I'm just trying to figure out what davidpt40 is doing in this thread. No one died studmuffin, move on.

[FUNKED1]

Best I can find is an F-16 driver who watched it.

http://www.f-16.net/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=126&start=75

Brick
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   Posted: Oct 03, 2003 - 06:24 AM        
I was at Mountain Home and witnessed the crash. The pilot was in full A/B during the descent in to the ground. The jet just seemed to lose thrust and "settle" into the ground.

I do believe it was an engine failure, because obviously, in A/B the jet should be producing 27,000 pounds of thrust. I am an F-16 troop at Hill AFB, and SAR pilot, and that is my 2 cents on the issue.

[Chairboy]

Davidpt40 specializes in being the answer to a question nobody asked.

What about me?  Why, I'm charming!

[Fishu]

There is some sound on the video, quite faint and it's continous throughout the video.
Can't say whether its the engines or just some static..   at least I didn't hear the ejection seat going off and you'd think that would be quite a bang.
So if the mike isn't put in some weird place, id say it was static.