Spanish Eurofighter Crash - Albacete
Sadly a spanish Eurofighter has crashed in Albacete. It is reported the pilot did not have time to eject. RIP.
https://twitter.com/PoliciaAlbacete/...33816875761664 |
pilot confirmed dead. apparently returning from national day fly past in Madrid
Accidente Eurofighter: Muere el piloto del avión tras el desfile |
Originally Posted by Jorge Newberry
(Post 9922593)
pilot confirmed dead. apparently returning from national day fly past in Madrid
Accidente Eurofighter: Muere el piloto del avión tras el desfile |
Third fatal Eurofighter crash within one month :-(
RIP. |
This witness interviewed in the video below from around the 40s mark states more or less that of four aircraft in low level formation broke one left , one right and one "up" to do a vertical loop . He does not state what the fourth did . It was the one that did a vertical loop that crashed he says not having time / height to recover and impacted the ground. He doesn't state in what attitude the impact was but does emphasis that it had no recovered level flight. The debris field as shown does not seem over a long distance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=iiSrLOoRN48 |
Eye-witness photographs show the 4 aircraft break from a tight low level formation but two 'may' have touched and one rolled inverted and hit the ground. I have pictures on WhatsApp, not sure how to get them here.
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Again and again: altitude is too low even to eject, to say nothing about saving the plane after a human error (that might not be fatal if operated a bit higher)...
R.I.P. Condolences to the family... |
Images here:
Salen a la luz las fotos del momento en el que se estrelló el Eurofighter pilotado por Borja Aybar Looks like a flat break. The images don't appear to confirm a midair, and they certainly discount the eyewitness testimony of the #3 jet looping. |
Jetwash from the two "flat breaking" aircraft?? Pic 3 (?) clearly shows a Typhoon sandwiched slightly astern between the two flat breaking aircraft....
RIP. |
Looks like poor fella breaking flat to the right overbanked (g-loc?) and pulled into the ground. In the last few years we’ve seen the Reds and the Blue Angels lose someone on the break to land after a display. Maybe time to review what’s going on?
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Again and again: altitude is too low even to eject, to say nothing about saving the plane after a human error (that might not be fatal if operated a bit higher)... DV |
Upside down and descending may diminish some of that capability
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Originally Posted by Flap62
(Post 9924675)
Looks like poor fella breaking flat to the right overbanked (g-loc?) and pulled into the ground. In the last few years we’ve seen the Reds and the Blue Angels lose someone on the break to land after a display. Maybe time to review what’s going on?
You are a better person than I if you can deduce the cause of this accident from those photographs. |
Originally Posted by glad rag
(Post 9924419)
Jetwash from the two "flat breaking" aircraft?? Pic 3 (?) clearly shows a Typhoon sandwiched slightly astern between the two flat breaking aircraft....
RIP. |
Flighthappens,
I did not “deduce” the cause of the accident from the photos, hence the ? After g-loc! |
What happened to the seat's zero/zero capability? |
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Originally Posted by Ewan Whosearmy
(Post 9924898)
Looks to me more like the 'sandwiched' one is #3, while #4 is already breaking right.
I was trying to formulate, from those images, how the aircraft could have ended up in such a disastrous attitude in such a short amount of time and distance... reminds me of the shocking speed/rate of the German Navy Tornado departure video... RIP |
From the sooty exhaust trails it looks as if the aircraft were pushing the throttle up as they broke. The furthest aircraft away in those photos looks to have moved ahead of the next furthest, which seems to be the accident aircraft. At low fuel mass (end of sortie...) the acceleration would be massive even in dry power so it would be very easy to pull in front if 'leading' with throttle instead of manoeuvre when actioning the break. It would be interesting to know whether the Typhoon FCS should be able to cope with jet wash (well, jet blast at that distance) at such close quarters, or would the disturbance send the system into convulsions?
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