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Lightning Down At FAOB
Heard a Lightning speared in on take off at Overberg. Pilot ejected safely. No other news.
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During the airshow presumably. Sad news. :(
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Sadly pilot did not make it out from this one. Seems like hydraulics failure on t/o, according to people at the base and involved with air show. Twin stick, but no-one else on board.
Airfield raised net but aircraft did not make it that far. Have not posted pilot name (RIP) out of respect for family, friends and colleagues. No official announcement has yet been made. |
Some info here: Fighter jet crashes at air show: News24: SouthAfrica: News
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From Avcom.za...
i was at the show and heard pilot declare emergency. ac was routed to east of the field and pilot indicated possibility of needing to eject. he reported he was going to fly away from populated areas and again indicated he may need to eject. thereafter indicated he was having difficulties with control and was ejecting. shortly afterwards he reported "ejection failure" and the aircraft impacted the ground. I saw no parachute deploy. |
Tragic news:sad:
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That initial post is cold and hearltess. The pilot was killed in a tragic accident, have some compassion!:=
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To be fair to CF that was what the original reports said.
It could now be edited of course to reflect the reality. Tragic news. Gareth |
It was made with limited info available.
If it was known a fatality had occurred the post would have reflected that. Initial reports were that the pilot had survived. |
Dave Stock. FJ and test pilot.
RIP, mate. |
Really sad. I attended this show at Overburg four years ago, still have the video I took, some of my best experiences of S.A. were Thunder City and Overburg. R.I.P.
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Do we know any more about the seat failure? Right bugger that is. Poor DS.
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R.I.P . Still no exact news on what the cause was?
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Isn’t it more likely a failure of the canopy to eject within the sequencing of the seat release? :uhoh:Can the canopy be manual ejected?:(Any experienced Lightning people care to comment. All very sad:sad:
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Originally Posted by BOAC
Do we know any more about the seat failure? Right bugger that is. Poor DS.
Perhaps similar to George Aird's famous last moment ejection from that F1 at Hatfield but without the same happy ending. |
Have seen posts that DS reported 3 failed ejection attempts You can trace this back for yourself, starting with the links at the top of the thread. Give yourself time to get through all the spotter bolli. |
A fantastic aviator, Rest in Peace.
Dave flew me supersonic on a Lightning sortie only last year. What an amazing gentleman, and aviator. So young, and such a tragedy. My thoughts are with all his family and friends in Hermanus and Cape Town.
RIP Dave |
Cape Town – “Hydraulic malfunction. I’m bailing out. Ejection seat malfunction.” These were the last words heard by a former air force pilot before his fighter plane crashed on Saturday at the Bredasdorp air show. Dave Stock, 46, from Hermanus, died in the accident. Rescuers found remains of his clothing about 10km from the Overberg air force base. Stock was an experienced pilot who had completed close to 16 000 flying hours and had taken part in more than 100 air shows. Stock was performing a display flight in a Lightning jet from Thunder City in Cape Town – one of only four in the world – when it crashed. Investigation pending Colonel Marius van der Heever, commander of the Overberg air force base, said the Civil Aviation Authority would investigate the accident. “Right up until the end, Dave had communication with the tower and he was fully conscious when he crashed.” “There were also indications that he could not eject successfully,” said Van der Heever. |
Check the report on the loss of Lightning F3 XR721 on 5/1/66 for canopy problems. Post 14 is correct, there is an interrupter link between the canopy and the seat to stop the seat going till the canopy has gone as there is a large bit of metal frame in the way that is not frangible. The seat cannot eject if the canopy is on. There is a drill to manually jettison the canopy.
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Thanks for that CharlieJuliet. All still very sad.
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