Thankfully the pilot wasn’t injured, but this crash at Wisconsin’s OshKosh 2011 EAA AirVenture air show is insane. Watch for yourself.
Thankfully the pilot wasn’t injured, but this crash at Wisconsin’s OshKosh 2011 EAA AirVenture air show is insane. Watch for yourself.
The Joker
Sunday, July 31, 2011 at 9:17 AMSeems to have landed late on the runway and simply ran out of tarmac. Didn’t see a chute deploy to slow the plane down either.
warcroft
Sunday, July 31, 2011 at 9:47 AMAll I saw was the back of a guys head.
William
Sunday, July 31, 2011 at 11:54 AMYeah, i reckon your right joker. Ran out of tarmac, hit soft dirt, collapsing the front landing gear and resulting in a very expensive repair job. I’m not sure US F-16′s have a drag chute standard. It is more added on customer request (i.e. the Norwegians have drag chutes due to concerns over icy runways.
Jeremiah Johnson
Sunday, July 31, 2011 at 12:33 PMFor whatever reason it appeared to have a braking problem. I can see no other reason that the jet would run off the end of the runway.
EckyThump
Sunday, July 31, 2011 at 1:07 PMYou can always count on an airshow to provide the obligatory plane crash! Not often you see it after the bloody thing lands though..#]
LucasF
Sunday, July 31, 2011 at 1:22 PMSomething weird about that video, it didn’t look like he would have ever had time to stop if that was the end of the runway…maybe something went wrong with the nose wheel steering and he skewed off. Also although there is no drag shoot, there is a wind brake that that can pop up on top of the fuselage that the pilot chose not to deploy, suggesting he wasn’t having a problem slowing down before the end of the runway. I’m gonna go with steering problem.
Brett
Sunday, July 31, 2011 at 1:55 PMIf you watch carefully it looks like he goes off the tarmac, not runs out of it.
dave
Sunday, July 31, 2011 at 2:24 PMAt the end, all I saw was a guy pissbolting from the plane thinking “uh-oh, just crashed something verrrry expensive. Time to get out of here”.
Stan
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 11:54 AMthat little bit of damage?? It will just buff out..
Dennison
Sunday, July 31, 2011 at 9:19 PMIt is amazing how many crashes happen at air shows.
Graeme
Monday, August 1, 2011 at 11:08 AMNot really. Planes fly into bits of landscape pretty often, so if you put lots and lots of aircraft in the one place, often pulling fancy moves, then the chances are reasonably high something will go wrong. It’s more just a case of it being more publicised these days with everyone sticking clips of it on the internet.
Shaun
Monday, August 1, 2011 at 11:45 AMPetrol Sniffer?
Paul
Monday, August 1, 2011 at 11:57 AMwoah, simply ran out of runway. What a shame, I quite like the F-16.
Markoos
Monday, August 1, 2011 at 11:58 AMThat’s totally photoshopped.
red t-rex
Monday, August 1, 2011 at 3:53 PMI think he went through Iceman’s jetwash and went into a flat spin.