Don't remember seeing this

[Drano]

If not you guys are really slipping! Can you imagine?

https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/civilian-on-fly-along-accidentally-ejected-from-fighter-1833821292?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=jalopnik_copy&utm_campaign=top


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[CptTrips]

Famous last words:

"What's this button for?"

[Oldman731]

Famous last words:

"What's this button for?"

Sometimes not so funny.  I remember this event, although I wasn't there at the time:

At an air show on July 4, 1981, visitors were allowed to climb into the cockpit of an S-3 Viking patrol aircraft on ground display at the Naval Air Station-Willow Grove, Pa. The Navy had failed to disarm the ejection seat in the jet and a 7-year-old boy, John Pigford Jr., activated the rocket-controlled seat, ejecting himself through the aircraft canopy. He died two days later of a skull fracture and internal injuries. His brother, who was in the cockpit at the same time, survived with facial burns. Twenty-one others were injured in the incident.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-09-04-mn-2281-story.html

It turned out that the kid had to perform a number of operations, in proper sequence, to initiate the ejection.  Seven-year-olds can be pretty good at research, if not so hot at judgment.

- oldman (which is true of older people as well)

[CptTrips]

Sometimes not so funny.  I remember this event, although I wasn't there at the time:

At an air show on July 4, 1981, visitors were allowed to climb into the cockpit of an S-3 Viking patrol aircraft on ground display at the Naval Air Station-Willow Grove, Pa. The Navy had failed to disarm the ejection seat in the jet and a 7-year-old boy, John Pigford Jr., activated the rocket-controlled seat, ejecting himself through the aircraft canopy. He died two days later of a skull fracture and internal injuries. His brother, who was in the cockpit at the same time, survived with facial burns. Twenty-one others were injured in the incident.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-09-04-mn-2281-story.html

It turned out that the kid had to perform a number of operations, in proper sequence, to initiate the ejection.  Seven-year-olds can be pretty good at research, if not so hot at judgment.

- oldman (which is true of older people as well)

That's so sad.

The French Journalist?

Hmmmmmmm 

[bustr]

They speculated 1. the seat malfunctioned, 2. on take off the passenger in the heat of the moment and acceleration needed to hold on to something, 3. the passenger saw this as his one chance in life to use an ejection seat at ground level.

[Ciaphas]

That aircraft has a MK16 seat in it, the very same one I work on. More than likely, the civilian got the Ejection control handle out of detent enough to partially pull the sears to an unsafe point.

Bottom line, the passenger did something to the handle to get it out of detent and then applied roughly 50lbs of force to get the sears in an unsafe config.


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