Harrier crashes in Afghanistan pilot injured on ejection
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Does anyone know what happened with this, did he have a problem prior to landing and knew it would be a bumpy one and if so why didn't he hover the aircraft down rather than land on it's belly?
Or was it a landing that just went wrong?
Or was it a landing that just went wrong?
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however I must say I'm not in the military yet...
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I'm not leaving ignorant comments, I've not written any explanation or criticism towards the pilot because I'm in no way a position to do such a thing. I'm just wanting to understand the video a bit better from the people that are in the know.
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Aircraft nose pitching up with the stab being forced to a nose down position?? Nice stall.. Nozzle lever moved inadvertenly like the 2nd of August 2002?? Cannot see the cold nozzles clearly to tell if they are..
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Zero height ejections are fraught affairs and he possibly thought it was safer to stay with the aircraft and get out when it stopped.. Until he realised he was surrounded by a fireball. It would have been doubtful if he would have got out when the aircraft stopped without ejecting, even thought it seems the cockpit wasn't surrounded by burning F34 when the heap stopped. It would have been a bit too warm regardless.
With no hours on type, not even microsoft sim whilst on my relaxing lounge suite, but the benefit of watching this video three times, I would have done something different if it was me... 
Pure speculation of course...Flaps selected 'Auto' instead of 'Stol' ??(or flap mode malfunction)
Difficult to see clearly from vid,but from the ejection pic - the flaps appear to be at 25 and the ailerons appear not drooped.
Difficult to see clearly from vid,but from the ejection pic - the flaps appear to be at 25 and the ailerons appear not drooped.
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I remember this day well
We had to sit for best part of an hours rotors running waiting for the fire crews to deal with it before ATC would let us depart,the who airfield went Black for a while...
The big concern was the Bombs on it going off, also you could hear a Pred operator arguing with the Yank ATC as his aircraft was parked and over heating with even more bombs but couldn't shut down so they were afraid of more explosions....
ATC wouldn't let them move.....
The big concern was the Bombs on it going off, also you could hear a Pred operator arguing with the Yank ATC as his aircraft was parked and over heating with even more bombs but couldn't shut down so they were afraid of more explosions....
ATC wouldn't let them move.....
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I doubt you will get an answer here on why the jet crashed. Maybe the Service Inquiry will give you all the answers you want.
