Opps - Pics

[Paul Taylor]

Enjoy OR Not.

[Paul Taylor]

And a few more...

[Garf]

Try this:

The Oops List

http://www.micom.net/oops/

[Steve Hand]

Or this: You-Tube, Ultimate Air Crash Video

     I am flying to China in November. What are we dishing out on each other today, food for thought?

[don Burke]

Just remember you're safer from harm in the airplane than you are in the car driving to the airport!

[Leo Mehl]

Reminds me of my flagging days for the crop dusters i used to work for.

[Elwyn Aud]

If I'm remembering correctly the big red twin in the drainage ditch was simply a matter of not setting the brakes or chocking the tires.

[Shultzie]

Wow! Kind of photos...Elwn!!!

This photo of the "lightplane hangin in the wires outside of our Boeing Wind Tunnel"
I REMEMBER DRIVING INTO THE OL' B-18 GATE THAT MORNING..and what a rush to watch the GREAT SAVE BY THE ALL THE RESCUE VECHICLES....AS THEY SAVED THE DAY...both the pilot and the airplane.
Sadly...
That same pilot's 9 lives ran out a short time later....and Sadly.... he died in anothe unrelated airplane crash months later.
Hummm?
Guess if one lives by the airplane sword...if one is not so lucky...one can die by it...

[Bill Gruby]

    Go to the "OOPS LIST" that Garf posted, In the third column 21 down titled "LUNCH" 

  "Billy G"

[john e. holliday]

My Grand son got a kick out of that "Lunch" oops.  I can hear the lions now saying, "Do we eat him now or later".  Thanks and have fun,  DOC Holliday

[Garf]

I have no idea, with all that open space, how that animal managed to run into that tree.

[George]

And the captions are:

1. Oh, for some Preparation-H !!

2. You sure this is not the one with pontoons?

3. Up periscope!

4. Told ya we could get them to run back across the border!

5. Hon, I think we are being flashed by one of the engines!

6. Ya put your right foot in, ya take...

7. Told ya we couldn't jump THAT curb!

8. I know you're wired, but try to relax.

9. At least we're facing East.

10. A foot of snow my *ss!

I hope noone was severely injured in these oops' ...

George

[Clancy Arnold]

The one I would give a trophy to is the 5th one down in the first column, "747 Jet Blast".  Watch the pickup truck.

The hardest to watch is the "MD-80 Hard Landing".  Looks like some modelers landing.

Clancy

[Marvin Denny]

 Did anyone else see the one titled 747 landing?  First column, sixth item down from the top.  WOW  I bet that smarted!!

  Bigiron

[Chris McMillin]

The one I would give a trophy to is the 5th one down in the first column, "747 Jet Blast".  Watch the pickup truck.

The hardest to watch is the "MD-80 Hard Landing".  Looks like some modelers landing.

Clancy

The MD-80 hard landing was done by an FAA test pilot and was the second hull loss during the MD-80 certification flights.
What an airplane...
Chris...

[Randy Powell]

I'm pretty sure the F-16 ejection pic is a fake. The ejection is real enough, but it looks like the back ground was Photoshopped.

[Joe Gilbert]

Randy the F-16 is real he was doing the loop on take off and didn't go over the top high enough, just got out in time .

[Steve Fitton]

I'm pretty sure the F-16 ejection pic is a fake. The ejection is real enough, but it looks like the back ground was Photoshopped.

There is ALOT of footage of this accident.  Motion picture film from both the spectator area, AND some awesome film from the cockpit cam.  While the pilots preflight planning may have been less than perfect (he planned his solo routine with the wrong field altitude), his decision making was razor sharp.  Looking at the cockpit film, I counted 9 frames from his first motion to the seat handles to the jets impact with the runway.  By then he was safely out.  He waited to the last second to be sure he could not clear the ground, then punched.

Tom McClain knows much more about the crash, he may even know the hapless pilot.  He made a good point of commenting that the F-16 flight computer made its contribution to the crash by limiting the pilot to 9g when he had about 12 available.  If he could have pulled even 10 or 11 he would have missed the ground.