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

[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

[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.

[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/Cavale...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 had such an incident, costing six lives. Fast jets and cable systems don't seem to play well together.

[Basil]

Originally Posted by 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.

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.