Originally Posted by
etudiant
Did not some Marine Corps pilots reduce a new airframe to scrap doing something similar? Iirc, it was a gunship version, so the bill was steeper than for a normal transport.
Guess for a pilot, it is always tempting to try something similar, but stuff happens...
My bad. The Marines were not the guilty party, but rather the USAF.
And a departure from controlled flight into an unplanned, inverted position and an overstress of the aircraft, is much different than a properly planned, properly executed, aerobatic maneuver within the limits of the aircraft. One is planned, the mishap was not.