A couple of interesting ejection pictures

[feddoc]

F-16B.

This accident happened at Volkel Air Base in The Netherlands on September 22nd. The jet was an Dutch Air Force F-16B (a two seater). As they were taking off from a touch-and-go, a bird was sucked into the jet engine. The engine stalled, and the pilots tried to turn the jet around and get back on the ground, however, they lost control of the jet and ejected safely. Then, the abandoned jet veered towards the control tower and missed it by less than 3 meters. The plane hit the ground, then bounced over a Dutch Security vehicle and then crashed into a Protected Aircraft Shelter (PAS). The PAS has walls nearly 2 feet thick of reinforced concrete. That was fortunate, since there was another F-16 inside the PAS along with maintenance personnel. Luckily, no one was injured in this accident. Plane spotters near the end of the runway took the pictures of the pilots ejecting and the jet passing the control tower. The two pictures of the wreckage were released by the Royal Netherlands Air Force.

 

[East]

Some more pictures

near the shelter...

 

[Brett327]

Looks like the Dutch installed the "ejection confetti cannon" mod.

Brett

 

[A4sForever]

^ At the very least, it's much more "festive" ....

 

[Tex_Hill]

Looks like the Dutch installed the "ejection confetti cannon" mod.

Brett

That had me scratching my head as well.

 

[Schnugg]

Feathers??

 

[skidz]

I don't think those are feathers because of their close proximity to the time of ejection. It mentions that they attempted to turn the a/c around after the hit and the engine stalled out, so there would be some distance between the remnants of the bird and their ejection location.

 

[Semper Jump Jet]

Probably parts of the canopy and rocket motors, either that or hash brownies stored under the seat.

 

[Harrier Dude]

Probably a premptive Chaff program to elude the AMB investigators.

 

[Tex_Hill]

Probably parts of the canopy and rocket motors, either that or hash brownies stored under the seat.

The plexiglass in the canopy appears to be intact so what other part of the canopy would look like that?

Since we're throwing out wild ass guesses, perhaps one of the pilots had his Playboy collection secured under the seat.

 

[Harrier Dude]

Maybe it was his backseaters nav bag. Some of them carry the entire chart library in their man-purse.

 

[Pags]

Maybe it was his backseaters nav bag. Some of them carry the entire chart library in their man-purse.

a lifetime worth of dropped kneeboard cards and signed off FOD MAFs...."hey....there's that pen I lost last year."

 

[Tex_Hill]

Maybe it was his backseaters nav bag. Some of them carry the entire chart library in their man-purse.

So my guess was pretty much spot on?

 

[Banjo33]

I fear that's what my kneeboard would look like if I had to punch too. Time to thin it out a little!

 

[helolumpy]

I think the pilots stripped naked prior to ejecting... that will give the SOBs on the mishap board something to think about!!