Cable strike during Swiss Air Force Display

[The Old Fat One]

Apologies if I've miss-identified the display team or anything, tis BBC after all

Alpine Ski World Championships: Display plane causes camera crash - BBC Sport (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-sports/39006789)

[Basil]

Looks like a real 'Gotcha!'

I wonder if the existence of that wire was included in the briefing?

[Treble one]

Looks like the Swiss AF PC-7 team TOFO

[18greens]

And what about their parking?

[Just This Once...]

Parking like a finely tuned machine.

[bgbazz]

Damn!! That footage is only available to UK viewers.

[Glevum]

Try this link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws0vxsu608Q

ws0vxsu608Q

[bgbazz]

Thanks very much...worked a treat!

[tdracer]

That could have been a whole lot worse - they're lucky it didn't do critical damage to the aircraft that hit the cable (dumping a display team jet into a ski resort its likely going to have a very unhappy outcome).

[Carbon Bootprint]

Thanks, Glevum. I was also a little frustrated at not being able to see the video.

Agree it could have been a lot worse. Knocked the camera off, but apparently the trolley and cable are intact. Precision flying. :E

[peterperfect]

Wouldn't you think the camera normally hangs from the underneath, and the trolley system inverted including the suspension wire twisted when the teleball weight was released ?? A different system to this photo but you get my point.

Even more Scary if so...

Love to see a photo of the aircraft skin point of impact. pp

[peterperfect]

or was the camera running at the point in time ? Would be a sensational video.

[ShotOne]

"..a real Gotcha"? More like a serious lapse of briefing and preparation. Good job it wasn't a civilian pilot or there'd be twenty pages here demanding to know his experience and qualifications (see Shorehsm Hunter thread). What if it had been a chairlift?

[The Old Fat One]

What if it had been a chairlift?

Seems to depend what nation you are from...although with the possible exception of more jail time, justice seems to have (mostly) got there in the end.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalese_cable_car_disaster_(1998)

Note. Hyperlink does not quite work, click through the "did you mean" link

[blind pew]

Ex Swiss Air Force mate told me that the bloke who strung up the camera hadn't told anyone....used to be quite common with farmers doing same with logging cables...remember a couple of guys dying after hitting one unnotified wire.

[Carbon Bootprint]

TOFO, if you edit your link to include the ending parend it should work.

To your point, even the father of the Airbus FBW system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Ziegler) had such an incident, costing six lives. Fast jets and cable systems don't seem to play well together.

[Basil]

Ex Swiss Air Force mate told me that the bloke who strung up the camera hadn't told anyone....used to be quite common with farmers doing same with logging cables...remember a couple of guys dying after hitting one unnotified wire.
Thank you for that info, bp, which was my point in #2.

[Aynayda Pizaqvick]

What if it had been a chairlift?

Well that would have been a permanent structure so likely marked on a map and briefed. I suspect they knew nothing of a temporary camera cable.