Riad Typhoon incident?

[tojeiro]

Has anyone any pictures or video of the Riad Typhoon incident Please?

[adr]

Didn't even know the Typhoon had been spotted in Riyadh (note spelling), let alone that there'd been an incident there. Tell us more!

adr

[Onan the Clumsy]

There's another Hurricane in the Gulf over here at the moment.

[CBA_caption]

Always happy to oblige

Typhoon Incidents (http://www.npmoc.navy.mil/jtwc.html)

CBA:E

[Wholigan]

Try looking.

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=182254

[6foottanker]

Obviously you spend a while browsing the threads before posting your original question.... doh!

[CBA_caption]

I think the words (in red) at the bottom of the page are some very pertinant prose for this thread.

[AllTrimDoubt]

Nah - couldn't be press...he got the a/c name right (although I wonder if RIAD use those awful buses for crew transport too?)

[SilsoeSid]

As the other thread is now closed, I don't know if it has been linked before, (truth is I can't be bothered to search or trawl through all the posts, besides there will always be someone to find out for me! ;) ) but here's what happens when it nearly 'all' goes 'Pete Tong'!

A pilot's error caused a Thunderbirds F-16C to crash shortly after takeoff during a September (2003) airshow at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho. The pilot ejected just before the aircraft impacted the ground.

According to the accident investigation board report the pilot, 31-year-old Captain Chris Stricklin, misinterpreted the altitude required to complete the "Split S" maneuver. He made his calculation based on an incorrect mean-sea-level altitude of the airfield. The pilot incorrectly climbed to 1,670 feet above ground level instead of 2,500 feet before initiating the pull down to the Split S maneuver.

When he realized something was wrong, the pilot put maximum back stick pressure and rolled slightly left to ensure the aircraft would impact away from the crowd should he have to eject. He ejected when the aircraft was 140 feet above ground - just 0.8 seconds prior to impact. He sustained only minor injuries from the ejection. There was no other damage to military or civilian property.

The aircraft, valued at about $20.4 million, was destroyed.
Source (http://www.f-16.net/f-16_news_article968.html)


http://www.rapp.org/wp-content/012604-f16_crash-thumb.jpg (http://members.cox.net/~ronrapp/thunderbird_crash_ground_view.wmv) Ground View video

cockpit view of above incident. (http://members.cox.net/~ronrapp/thunderbird_crash.mpeg)

And while I'm at it;Typhoo video. (http://www.sukhoi.fsnet.co.uk/APG/RIAT.mpg)

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[STANDTO]

I was expecting a video about tea making then:confused:

Seroisuly, if that was the incident, then I don't see what all the fuss is about. Beautiful sink rate timed to perfection.

[Impiger]

STANDTO

I agree with you the stills look much worse but that looked perfectly under control even if a little below the normal round-out. Not surprised they let him contiinue.

[BEagle]

Definitely not so, Impiger. I witnessed it - and saw a very high rate of descent despite full A/B. At a very late stage, there was a slight but distinct Omigawd increase in pitch attitude, almost immediately followed by a more graceful recovery (once the VV was known?)...

Very, very close indeed - and certainly not 'timed to perfection'!

[6Z3]

Was the flight self-authorised, or does someone else take that responsibility for flying display flight? Because, in the absence of any technical problem, it is "judgement" in its widest sense that is at issue here.

[Tourist]

The angle the video was filmed from makes it look a lot less scary than it was if you witnessed it. Everybody I was with went silent and waited for the impact

[SilsoeSid]

Sorry Standto,

You'll be wanting http://www.visit4info.com/sitecontent/LG/fullZZZZZZTVCCL0729210549PIC.jpg (http://www.visit4info.com/details.cfm?adid=16436) this link!
(Not how to make tea, but a Typhoo video!)

ATB
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[Impiger]

BEAGS

OK I'll accept you had to be there but the video really ain't that scary. Just shows how camera angle, lens length etc can give a false impression.

On a more trivial point what promted 29(R) to adopt some old F4 29(F) markings for their new aircraft? Distinct lack of imagination if you ask me (and given my non de plume you might forgive me for muttering cudmudgeoningly into my claret that no bu&&er asked me). Oh I get it ... they had a big box of the old shield badges left and needed to shift them to generate start-up funds for Sqn!

[jindabyne]

Don't you guys know when to give it a rest?