Harrier Crash (Whoops 2)

[plan_D]

No I don't want to think twice at all. The point is, it's in anyone's freedom to watch or not watch these video's. If I find it funny, then so be it. You think that's a problem, then so what? I don't find the Sea Knight one amusing, I just think the pilot was an idiot for coming in that fast.

Don't try and impose your feelings on others, you tart.

[FLYBOYJ]

Originally Posted by Glider

It was a Pirat. I was on approach and only one airbrake came out. Somehow and I don't know how, I hit the ground level, not nose first. The strange thing is that I don't remember a thing from when I heard and felt the bang as the controls broke, until I had hit the ground watching the undercarriage which had gone through the top of the fuselage coming back down, hoping it wouldn't land on me.

WOW - THAT'S HORRIBLE! I had a hard landing in a Cessna 172 when I first got my PPL and I had the incident in the glider. There is no worse feeling as you bounce, crash and fly through the air uncontrolled only guessing how horrible the inevitable is going to be!

Did you ever find out why only one air brake came out? Here in the states, if the FAA caught wind of a flight control incident, it turns into a major incident!

[Glider]

There was a full investigation and it was simple human error. The glider had been assembled in the morning and one of the links had come lose during the day. I was the fourth person to fly it that day, no one had had any trouble and the brakes had closed and locked normally prior to the launch.
I couldn't see the link when I checked the glider and fortunately had been showing a new member how to preflight a machine under the supervision of the CFI, so I was cleared of being skimpy in the checks.

[FLYBOYJ]

Wow - do you still fly?

[Royzee617]

I still think it's more a case of showing off at others' expense when posting these kind of crash clips. That's why we should not be a convenient posting place for this kind of material.

Maybe such individuals would be better putting the time in and making their own videos. It has taken me ages to get to where I can do it.

This site is great because it is one of the few which allows larger attachments (and you get an appreciative audience!) so I sincerely hope that we don't draw adverse attention and have such privileges rescinded in any way.

[Glider]

FJ I did until two years ago when I had High Blood Pressure. Gliding always gave me a thrill, even a normal cable launch or leaving the field had that uncertainty.

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i fail to see what the fuss is about IN THIS CASE, no one was hurt, the pilot ejected safely??

i bet you guys complaining wouldn't object to watching guncam footage?? well the planes you see getting shot down, inside there there's a man proberly getting burnt alive, yet i bet you'd still watch it?? i do, but you do not complain when people post guncam footafge??

[cheddar cheese]

Originally Posted by plan_D

If people want to watch the crash then it's up to them. If you don't want to watch the crash, it's clearly marked as a crash video. Flying isn't always nice, happy fun. I could just as easily start ranting and raving about gun camera footage being sick and distasteful, but no! And do you know why? Because in this free world people can choose if they do or don't want to watch things. It makes you sick, don't watch it. Simple.

Now, me, I haven't even watched it. And I don't plan on doing so anytime soon.

Sums it up perfectly.

[FLYBOYJ]

Originally Posted by Glider

FJ I did until two years ago when I had High Blood Pressure. Gliding always gave me a thrill, even a normal cable launch or leaving the field had that uncertainty.

Too bad Glider. In the US there are no health restrictions for sailplanes. If you could get a drivers license, the FAA will allow you to fly a sailplane. Now we have the sport rating for powewred aircraft. If you were never denied a medical, you could fly a sport plane (which I think is classifed as an aircraft with a gross weight under 1200 pounds).

[Royzee617]

No - personally I have no complaints about the Harrier ejection though I do find the other crash vid unpleasant - but it is hardly difficult to find such stuff on the web so what is the point of putting it up here except to show off?

OK if it was your own new footage but this is just a WoT and demeans the site. The web is already polluted enough with gratuitous carnage etc so let's dissuade it from creeping on here.

[lesofprimus]

Pure Unaltered Carnage at its Finest, for those of us that feel our right to choose what we view is OUR right......

Not everyone surfs the net looking for things like this....... If u dont wanna view it, DONT...... Stop trying to tell people here what and what they shouldnt be looking at......