This guy really has balls as they say. He films this Swedish Gripen as it crashes. And, by the looks of it, the jet crashes really close by. And yet he doesn’t even bother, keeps on filming. The jet stalled after a low speed maneuver at the Stockholm Water Festival on August 8, 1993. Pilot safely ejected and got stuck in a tree. No one on the ground was injured. Official cause of the crash was PIO – Pilot Induced Oscilations.
This guy loses his right risers and quickly finds himself on the way down. It’s not the fall that kills you, it’s the sudden stop at the bottom. Luckily for him, he manages to open his reserve chute, land safely in the drink and live to tell the tail.
Well, I have seen some very bad take-offs in my life. But this one, I have to admit, must one of the worst. I think the airplane in question is a Grumman G-21 Goose flying boat. This type of airplane has been around since the 1930s. Seems such a tragic end for a WWII veteran. Good thing nobody got hurt.
The V-22 Osprey is the first operational tilt-rotor aircraft in the world. Capable of taking off like a helicopter but able to sustain airplane cruise speeds, the Osprey is really a marvel of technology. But its beginnings were crazy and tumultuous. Check out for instance this amazing video of a test flight crash in 1991, a time when this radical new concept was still in development.
Amazing video of a Seaking helicopter crashing into the ground hard. The Seaking was a search and rescue helicopter and it’s kinda sad to see this cool machine crash.
A Russian helicopter is shot down in Chechnya. This is just crazy. No comment.
A US Navy Ch-46 Sea Knight comes in to land. Only problem is the pilot doesn’t really do it well. Consequence? The helicopter falls short of the helipad and hits the drink.
These two Puma helicopters were trying to do a nice formation pass over the crowd. In terms of proximity, they were flying at the limit. And when they went beyond that limit, all hell broke loose. Their rotor blades collided sending both helicopters in uncontrolled spins to the ground.
A Russian Sukhoi Su-27 pilot tries to do a Split-S maneuver that ends in tragedy. He virtually plows the crowd with his jet, as people run scared in all directions. What is amazing is not the crash itself, or even the great fireball. Check out the soldier that calmly watches the scenes unfold and he has absolutely no reaction. Shock and Awe!
Things started out quite well with this demonstration. Until the last jet peeled off. Engines seemed to flame out, listen to the commentator saying all there is to be said and then look out for the BANG. That about sums it up.
