Agreed, Oldman.
The roll can make a helluva difference upon your survival. So you get a half open chute but still hit the ground or water hard enuf to break things.
The guy before me with the leading edge flap failure slowed down to "flare' but did not realize the amount of increased yaw moment and decrease of roll authority as he slowed. he ejected at a serious roll angle so didn't make it. We knew that he didn't make it, but did not get a good debrief from the EPG country involved on all the details. Years later I got the "word" from someone on "F-16.net" and thanked God one more time for my successful landing with that flap folded up.
My bio on the forum has the video of the landing. I started to get slow, but kept speed up and simply "planted" the jet on the runway.
Our seats are really good, but still have some envelopes, even today.
The crash results of this one sucks, simple as that.
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