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Found this while doing prep work for an upcoming review...  

Wow! Neat

Snapped that right before the fuel tanks hit the ground!!  :o

I think I saw a video of this.  It was the most incredible recovery I've ever seen.  The pilot was falling out of the sky like nobody's business.  At about 10ft off the ground, he righted it, fired full afterburners (briefly lighting the grass on fire) which got him another 100ft or so, and he and his copilot ejected, with the plane crashing just behind them.  Unbelievable, wish I remembered where the vid was... (even if this wasn't that particular accident, it was still a spectacular recovery)

[quote]I think I saw a video of this.

Ahh, I see.  Thought I may have been a bit off.  Thanks

Kvotchur had a birdstrike at low altitude.
The Su-30 had a double engine failure, and because of this they involuntarily demonstated the only major design problem of the land-based flanker: the tail stinger.

The visually best MiG-29 crash was the one in 1993

if I were there I would
[glb]RUN![/glb]

A.

Strewth!
I don't think his parachute deployed sufficiently to spare the pilot a pair of broken legs at the least

I'm sure a few broken legs were a welcome result from this one.

Ive seen a lot of these "moment of impact" pictures, and videos and it always amazes me how the planes just collapse into the ground rather than bouncing and rolling. Also, the still picture look like crashes in FS where the plane just sticks in the ground like a lawn dart.

Ive seen a lot of these "moment of impact" pictures, and videos and it always amazes me how the planes just collapse into the ground rather than bouncing and rolling. Also, the still picture look like crashes in FS where the plane just sticks in the ground like a lawn dart.

Aeroplanes don't really have bouncing tendancies. ANy aircraft hittilng the ground at anything other than slow speeds will tend to make itself into a rather large mess Generally in a near vertical impact the tail does its best to say hello to the nose(assisted by the to big engine things...) and the engines try and did themselves as big a hole as possible before realising soil isn't quite up to the same combustion levels as air, and then they just give up....

[quote]Posted by: TacitBlue Posted on: Today at 9:38am
Also, the still picture look like crashes in FS where the plane just sticks in the ground like a lawn dart.

That pic is ages old...

+ its always happening..

most of the bits go into the crowd unfortunatly..

I remeber both of them, rather good photo that