Video: Bird sucked into F-15 engine at takeoff

A couple of seriously cool customers. The instructor talks about abandoning
the aircraft with about as much emotion as I use when I'm ordering a burger
and fries. I only hope I'm that calm and collected when I meet my first
in-flight emergency. My hat's off to these guys.

Shawn

"Dave in Columbus" wrote in message
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On Sat, 6 Aug 2005 17:56:34 -0700, "Matt Barrow"
wrote:

http://www.fazed.org/video/view/?id=40

Interesting!
Hey Ernie

I visit your site quite regularly, but I've never written in till now. The
jet in question is a CT-155 Hawk. It is a jet trainer built by British
Aerospace Systems and flown by the Canadian Air Force.(CT-155 is the
Canadian designation. The British designation is BAE 115 Hawk, or
something
like that.) The accident happened about 2 years ago in Moose Jaw,
Saskatchewan, where a lot of the pilot training for the Canadian Air Force
is done. I just completed pilot training there myself, although I didn't
fly the Hawk.

Anyway, as you can see, they had a bird strike shortly after take-off.
They
were doing about 230 knots, and at 200 feet when they sucked in the bird.
The one and only engine flamed out almost immediately. There was a student
and instructor in the airplane at the time. The instructor immediately
took
control and attempted to turn around in order to carry out a forced
landing. However, they didn't have enough altitude and decided to eject.
They were at about 800 feet, 150 knots when the ejected. Both pilots
survived. The student had virtually no injuries. The instructor severely
injured his spine and broke his leg. The student returned to flying almost
immediately. I am unsure if the instructor is back flying, but as of about
7 or 8 months ago, he was not.

Here is a link to a site with several pictures of the Hawk, as well as
more
info. I'd be happy to answer anymore questions you may have.

Cheers,
Mike G.
Pilot, Canadian Air Force


(Courtesy of http://www.ehowa.com/home.shtml)
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Dave in Columbus

ShawnD2112 wrote:
A couple of seriously cool customers. The instructor talks about abandoning
the aircraft with about as much emotion as I use when I'm ordering a burger
and fries.

....and he keeps giving good instruction in the process (i.e., "Fly
the airplane")


--Sylvain

Ya know...

.....this video made wonder: Is it common practice to eject from planes which
have ejection seats instead of ditching?

I was surprised they chose to eject and lose the plane instead of make an
off-airport landing in a clearing. Ejecting has risks of its own. It's a
violent event which can result in injury (which evidently happened).

Perhaps jets like that are considered too dangerous to ditch due to their
high landing speeds. Then again, a Hawk lands about the same speed as a
Citation.

Humm...

ShawnD2112 wrote:

A couple of seriously cool customers. The instructor talks about abandoning
the aircraft with about as much emotion as I use when I'm ordering a burger
and fries. I only hope I'm that calm and collected when I meet my first
in-flight emergency. My hat's off to these guys.

I was thinking the same thing. I guess that is one advantage of now
owning the airplane you are flying! :-)

Matt

Frankie wrote:

Ya know...

....this video made wonder: Is it common practice to eject from planes which
have ejection seats instead of ditching?

I was surprised they chose to eject and lose the plane instead of make an
off-airport landing in a clearing. Ejecting has risks of its own. It's a
violent event which can result in injury (which evidently happened).

Perhaps jets like that are considered too dangerous to ditch due to their
high landing speeds. Then again, a Hawk lands about the same speed as a
Citation.

Yes, you don't want to land a jet full of fuel at 130 knots or more on
rough terrain. That is what the seats are for.

Matt

http://www.fazed.org/video/
scroll down to the video in question (F-15 bird into engine)

There are aural cockpit warnings: "T6 NL" and "We are not done"

What do they mean?

Jose
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Jose wrote:

There are aural cockpit warnings: "T6 NL" and "We are not done"

What do they mean?

I thought the second one actually was 'gear not down', wasn't it?

--Sylvain

Jose wrote:

http://www.fazed.org/video/
scroll down to the video in question (F-15 bird into engine)

There are aural cockpit warnings: "T6 NL" and "We are not done"

What do they mean?

Jose

There's a thread about this video on the Pprune military forum at :

http://www.pprune.com/forums/showthr...hreadid=184747

The 'more info' link in the second post talks about the T6NL. I agree
that the other warning sounds like "gear not down".