Crew Ejects From Qatari F-15QA Fighter While On The Ground At Airport Near St. Louis
 

Sitting there quite happy minus the crew, I take it it rolled off the taxiway / runway on its own.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...-near-st-louis

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....c543ca5e0.jpeg

Salute!

Well.... we know the zero-zero seats worked!

Gums sends...

Premature Ejection?
 

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  :)The picture does not show any damage to the aircraft but the crew evidently "ejected".

F-15QA bound for Qatar declares emergency

F-15QA bound for Qatar declares emergency upon landing, leaves runway in Illinois; USAF pilots eject safely (airforcetimes.com)

Question from someone that knows nothing about these things...

After such an ejection is the plane damaged significantly, or repairable?

Ask the RAAF:}

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In normal circumstances it's feasible to repair the damage to the cockpit floor, bulkhead, instruments, canopy, fit new seats, rails and dependant on other damage, put the aircraft back into use. Damage the frame, and all bets are off.

Back in 1976, we had a rear seat ejection from Harrier T2 which was then landed by the front seat pilot. The aircraft was porpoising as it overflow the airfield at Wildenrath. The ejection appeared to clear the problem. The rear seat pilot survived , uninjured if I remember correctly. Whilst the aircraft stayed in the hangar for many a week until the problem was resolved ( fine silt in the hydraulic oil getting into the rear PFCU platten), I think we just fitted another seat and canopy. It did return to squadron flying.
ps. I watched the T2 ejection from the car park as we were turning up for Friday midday shift change.
pps. I was working on top of that T2 some weeks later, when a GR1, possibly GR3, had an engine disintegrate (LP stage 3 stator root cracking) on take off and I watched that pilot eject. (Summers day, side hangar doors wide open with great views of the runway). Again I think he survived but with some injuries.

As it's brand new I should imagine it will be repaired, the instruments now are all TV screens on that version, see


https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...nd-new-cockpit

I should imagine the Qatari's will want a brand new brand new one, not a brand new repaired one. That will be an interesting discussion between those who bought it and those who broke it.

Any theory as if what triggered this (short of pulling on the leveller)?
Seems odd

Interesting to note where the intake ramps are. Fully up. Well, at least the left one.

Somehow it doesn't seem right for the crew to punch out on takeoff and have the airplane end up wheels down just off the runway.

CUTiger78, it was a landing incident, not a takeoff incident. From the article linked in the OP :

Ooops, my mistake.
Kinda makes the punchout seem even stranger, punching out of an airplane already on the ground that ended up rolling to a stop.

Good luck with that!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-...owing/11749446

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RAAF is fixing this baby....

Thought that this things were made of metal, but it certainly doesn't look like that.

The whatever fiber is made of is better at reducing radar return ? (besides any other possible advantages)

Do we have any modicum of explanation as of what happened?!

Errr no their not,
311 was stripped of anything useable by 6Sqn techo's before the airframe was Cat5'd.