Iranian SU-24 Fencer crash

[Dirty]

Interesting, uncontrollable high power + engine fire? Happened in 2008 per the vid. FF to 1:10

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1b2_1237278935

 

[MIDNJAC]

Yeah if it were an uncontrollable power deal, at some point you obviously need to commit to shutting the engine down or waving off.

 

[Godspeed]

Ejection seemed a bit late.. Hopefully they got out allright.

 

[nittany03]

Hrm. Seems like they painted themselves into a corner what with the weird nose porpoise thing they had going on at the end. Though I can see being reticent to do a roll-and-go if you're already on fire . . .

 

[FLYTPAY]

Hopefully they got out allright.

Hopefully not! We could potentially have to fight those guys. The fewer the better.

 

[phrogdriver]

Hopefully not! We could potentially have to fight those guys. The fewer the better.

As long as the plane is wrecked, I hope the pilot is okay. Professional military officers in totalitarian regimes are usually "along for the ride" politically. Especially the pilots--they just want to do what they like and serve their country, not their government. I don't have any personal animous towards them.

 

[FLYTPAY]

As long as the plane is wrecked, I hope the pilot is okay. Professional military officers in totalitarian regimes are usually "along for the ride" politically. Especially the pilots--they just want to do what they like and serve their country, not their government. I don't have any personal animous towards them.

I don't have anything personal against them either except that they could potentially be the one trying to kill me. I bet our grandfathers were thinking the same thing about the German and Japanese pilots in WW2. I am sorry they are along for the ride. But if it is someone who could potentially be shooting at me or my friends, it would be nice if they had a problem prior to getting to that point.

PS- I am not exactly worried about the SU-24 ~

 

[phrogdriver]

I see what you're saying, but we could potentially fight any number of places. Are you happy every time every one of them has a fatal mishap?

Our grandfathers (actually mine was too old for WWII already) probably felt that animous towards the Japanese pilots, but not the Germans. Yes, there was bad shit going down, but there was a lot of chivalry and honor among opponents.

I'm reminded of the one-legged (edit--rechecked the story--no legged! F'n amazing!) RAF pilot Douglas Bader. The Germans let the Brits airdrop replacement legs to Bader while he was a POW. Then, he used those legs during multiple escape attempts!

 

[Schnugg]

Reminded me of a student pilot I saw bouncing down the runway in a C-172

 

[FLYTPAY]

I see what you're saying, but we could potentially fight any number of places. Are you happy every time every one of them has a fatal mishap?

Our grandfathers (actually mine was too old for WWII already) probably felt that animous towards the Japanese pilots, but not the Germans. Yes, there was bad shit going down, but there was a lot of chivalry and honor among opponents.

I'm reminded of the one-legged RAF pilot Douglas Bader. The Germans let the Brits airdrop a replacement wooden leg to Bader while he was a POW. Then, he used that leg during multiple escape attempts!

While we could potentially fight any number of places, that country happens to be in I would say the top three. I never said I was happy, joyful, gleeful, etc. I do not wish death on anyone....except for the obvious terrorists, etc. To make everyone happy, I hope that he survived the crash and is now NPQ'd because he is an inch shorter.
PS-If I am ever unlucky enough to be in aerial combat, I hope the poor SOB I end up shooting down doesn't eject.

 

[UMichfly]

With wicked pilot skills like the guys in the video obviously have, I think they're the ones you WOULD want to fight if you had to fight someone..