Caught a crash on video.
Posted by David Ebel on April 28, 2009
I had some great flying this weekend. I took a lot of video, and here is a highlight. I hate to see this kind of thing, but it happens. The good news is that the jet will fly again.
At the Sun Valley Flyers club in Arizona, I caught the unfortunate crash of a beautiful F-16. On a landing attempt the pilot decided to go-around. However, the Jet ran out of fuel, causing a crash. The Jet is repairable, and I am sure I will see if fly again.
Why does it look like pilot error? Jet engines take a while to spin up. So when the pilot decided to go-around, he expected a few second delay before the plan began to accelerate. Unfortunately, with no fuel left, the acceleration never came. With a prop-powered plane it would be immediately obvious whether the plane was out of fuel or not. You can see the Afterburner lights (red LEDs) on full-blast, indicating the pilot was giving full throttle.
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