Patrouille Suisse F-5E down

[STENDEC North]

https://sputniknews.com/europe/20210...r-jet-crashes/

Look like a midair.

[STENDEC North]

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/263091

[NutLoose]

From the aviation safety link







https://www.20min.ch/story/kampfjet-...t-482515185952

[atakacs]

Very dramatic images!

For what I understand it was not one of the aerobatic team.

[STENDEC North]

[STENDEC North]

Originally Posted by atakacs

Very dramatic images!

For what I understand it was not one of the aerobatic team.

Looks like it?

[ApolloHeli]

It was apparently an adversary for an F/A-18 on a training flight

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[Background Noise]

Originally Posted by STENDEC North

Looks like it?

It does, but I think the point is that it may have been a team painted aircraft but it was not necessarily flown on a team sortie or by a team pilot. One of the references says it was (effectively) an 'aggressor' sortie.

Edit: Timing!

[DuncanDoenitz]

Nice to see Suisse-7 (heli) and Suisse-8 (snowtrac) in the Team livery.

[atakacs]

Originally Posted by DuncanDoenitz

Nice to see Suisse-7 (heli) and Suisse-8 (snowtrac) in the Team livery.

​​ good one
My understanding is that it was indeed a training flight unrelated to the aerobatic patrol.

[Less Hair]

The aircraft of the swiss military aerobatic team have a day job to display enemy aircraft for training purposes. This was when the red colored aerobatic team aircraft crashed.

[dead_pan]

The a/c looks remarkably intact! Did it ski-doo down the mountainside??

Those images could be screen grabs from a video.

[STENDEC North]

Originally Posted by dead_pan

The a/c looks remarkably intact! Did it ski-doo down the mountainside??

Those images could be screen grabs from a video.

They are indeed images from the video, and it did have a relatively soft landing, then slid down the mountain.

[NutLoose]

Originally Posted by STENDEC North

They are indeed images from the video, and it did have a relatively soft landing, then slid down the mountain.

It must have set of its homing beacon then..

[Back door]

ejection

• Typ Tiger F-5 - Spektakuläre Bilder zeigen den Absturz des Kampfjets über der Melchsee-Frutt - 20 Minuten
• The pilot was able to save himself with the slingshot seat and was unharmed.
  
  gotta love that "slingshot seat"
  
  Seriously though fantastic to see the pilot was ok
  

[sandiego89]

What is the orange pod on the belly? Tow target pod?

Agree with the remarkably soft landing/slide.

[unmanned_droid]

Just a fuel tank in high conspicuity colour.

[tartare]

Where's the video?!

[SATCOS WHIPPING BOY]

Originally Posted by tartare

Where's the video?!

I couldn't find a video as such but found the link below to the closest thing.

Looks like it may be images from a DSLR on high frame rate.

https://www.20min.ch/story/kampfjet-...t-482515185952

(Sorry, just seen same link in Back Door's post)

[subsonicsubic]

Mountain Wave?

Originally Posted by SATCOS WHIPPING BOY

I couldn't find a video as such but found the link below to the closest thing.

Looks like it may be images from a DSLR on high frame rate.

https://www.20min.ch/story/kampfjet-...t-482515185952

(Sorry, just seen same link in Back Door's post)

Could this be the result of a mountain wave event?