Wow! You can hear him breathing...

Would really like to see a camera angle from another viewer on the ground...intense. Wonder how it all worked out?

Been quite awhile since I've seen that. I was a jet mech on F-15s and had to watch this.

Tadpole wrote:Been quite awhile since I've seen that. I was a jet mech on F-15s and had to watch this.

Don't remember if they had tail hooks....but he must have missed the arresting cable on runway which is understandable with all that was going on at the time. Think I would have stepped out with the report from chase plane still burning

DonC wrote:

Tadpole wrote:Been quite awhile since I've seen that. I was a jet mech on F-15s and had to watch this.

Don't remember if they had tail hooks....but he must have missed the arresting cable on runway which is understandable with all that was going on at the time. Think I would have stepped out with the report from chase plane still burning

Yup, had a hook. He had lots of speed. I could be wrong, again it's been years, so I'm not sure if I'm putting this story with the right incident or not, but I think the augmentor duct separated aft of the flange (we had to start doing FPI checks on them after this). By the time the fire was really caught it had burned through some electrical which prevented full fuel shutoff and that fed the fire. The high airspeed was suspect to have created a suction which pulled more fuel into the fire...against the thought of more air = blow the fire out. (slowing down might have stopped the fuel flow and the fire might have blown out then) The fire moved into the AMAD and created the loss of hydraulics for brakes. I think the hook bounced over the cable, and the accumlator was dumped and not enough to stop that speed. There was no other video worth a crap for this one from the tower or anything.