I think these days if your in a accident of any kind you get someone recording it. For the air crew this was a very scary moment . I have had some close calls in my life and most people get weak knees for a while from the shock I know I did.
This is a Danish student pilot (Flag on left shoulder) and his RCAF instructor. Part of the NATO Flying Training In Canada program. I'm so glad they both made it.
Thanks I just posted that I couldn’t see patches (small phone screen) but I did recognize the accent! I was right apparently. I was thinking if they aren’t Canadian, this must be somewhere that they have a similar accent. Maybe nDakota or Minnesota .
Yes, you have to do one ejection per year if you want to stay current....imagine ...the budget to renew the entire fleet of fighters almost every year...
@@lebaillidessavoies3889 Those are ejection trials, not actual ejections. They don't use real jets for that for the very reason that spinal compression is a huge issue. The typical service requirement for a fighter pilot between the US and Canada is 10 years. After that, you either get to choose a different role or you can opt to be honorably discharged from service. The force is enough to badly bruise the pilot, tear ligaments and even break bones. Therefore, no pilots don't go through a yearly ejection. That is false. They go through a simulated ejection, where the risk of injury is zero.
+redbaroniii but the bad thing is that instead of start walking and go home you need to swim praying that any starving shark around there doesnt swallow you first, xd.
Viktor B. reminds me of a line from "Objective Burma". One of the embedded reporters complain about his feet hurting from all of the marching in the army, and claimed they should have joined the Navy. Errol Flynn said he wouldn't do that because he "can walk a lot father than he can swim."
OldSoulPortal Well for me, it was just a moment where I felt very uncomfortable for the pilots. They're just trying to recover from getting their spines compressed, and here's some woman acting as if they just got off a roller coaster ride! XD
wow, the replies are savage. It's not just the pilots that are in shock. If you see a plane goes down, it shakes you as an eye witness up as well. Give these people just space to be themselves. You were not there and did not walk in their shoes on that day. People handle things differently.
+Stan The pilot on the right has a Danish flag on his flight suit. I didn't see a flag on the other one, but I would assume they are both Danish. No clue where they are though, the cars all looked American....
WOW! I don't care what military they are from, they are lucky to be alive. A day a pilot can walk away from a crash is a good day. I'm happy they were not hurt.
Pilots managed to eject, both walked away from the crash. Aircraft is a CT-155 Hawk trainer, assigned to the 419 Squadron based at 4 Wing leased from Bombardier. Investigation currently underway, but initial information says engine problems. The pilots spoke to media late Friday saying everything was going well until they heard a loud bang. "After we exhausted all possible remedies, we realized at that point that we would try for the field, try to glide in. It came apparent quite quickly that we weren't going to make it."
I think it was a bird strike, it it is the same one that the showed the HUD video of and played the audio. Looks like the crew did everything right. The military will be court martialing the bird.
The pilots have just emerged from a safe ejection and have escaped possible death, just because she shoves a camera in their face doesn't mean they have to acknowledge her. The pilots would have a lot on their minds at that point and getting chatty with bystanders may not have been high on their priority list.
Drew Daniell Well put. To add to that, they would have to keep their heads straight as they would have to put everything on paper, and explain the event over and over and over again. Chat with bystanders was for sure not their priority and rightfully so.
they are not allowed to disclose what happened until they are debriefed and given clearance to talk about it other than general issues. they did exactly what they should have.
Just because she is videoing to show all her mates back home doesn't give her any right to be listened to or spoken to. I suspect her questions are just for the soundtrack so she can tell her mates it's her talking. Dope. These guys are ultimate professionals and a group of elite people by dint of their being pilots. To have survived an ejection makes them even more special.
Clueless lady: "How often do you guys GET to do that?" Pilot: Oh once a week or so. We would do it more often but our CO doesn't let us. Clueless lady: What a meanie!
thank you for your service gentleman coming from a former pararescue member you are the reason we can look up at your blue skies and feel pride. Glad our equipment release and ejection safety systems are advanced and have saved more lives
They seem in pretty good shape considering. Ejection often leaves spinal injuries, one of the pilots at an airline I worked for was ex RAF and he had a permanent stoop after ejecting from a Buccaneer.
Thank you to the maintenance and systems crew that ensured the ejection system actually worked properly and subsequently saving the lives of these two good men. Definitely a stressful few minutes trying to relight and decide if gliding will work - mixed with physical trauma of the ejection. Thanks for the upload, cheers
Doesn't look like they were overjoyed at having the public around them. Although in a different situation they might have been glad they were there. Probably a bit embarrassing for them too.
It's funny that people need to hear the word "eh" to know that they're Canadian. 0:17 "I was genna go reyt inta thum" "oh so yew were feckin goin reyt in?"
Crash occurred at Cold Lake, Alberta: The investigation concluded that the Hawk CT155 Adour Engine low pressure turbine blade, which had a history of fatigue cracking at the trailing edge rear acute corner, failed prior to reaching its design life.
Goku Vegeta I don’t even remember commenting this💀 What’s the joke tho? Tried to google it but found nothing. Myb it’s in the video but I’m to lazy to watch it again
I think they each get a tie. It doesn't look like they got the other common prize, a compression fracture of a vertebrae. Although perhaps the adrenaline is pumping too much to know? The modern seats are so good and control the acceleration so hopefully they are fine. In the old days it was a damn artillery shell charge. You lived but you were like wile e coyote walking like an accordion.
In the Navy when our pilots used to prep for flights or land back on our carrier, especially at night, I just didn't ask them anything. Their heads were elsewhere and anything that came out of my mouth would just be annoying background noise.
the last thing that these piltos want is seeing curious peolple around them asking if they are ok, the pilots try no to talk to them and then the crow get closer and closer to see if they are human being or not, xdd.
In the 60's my friend's dad was harvesting beets near Tracy CA when he saw someone leaning against his truck. He walked over and saw that the guy was in uniform and had a helmet. It turned out that he had just bailed out of a B-52 from Marysville. He was in rough shape. Jumping out like that is no fun. The chute, helmet and flight suit are on display at the Castle Air Museum. Did you notice that the pilot checked his shins @ 1:16 and he gestured to the other to do the same? You have to pull your legs back against the seat so you don't get them chopped off by the instrument panel (dash board) when the seat pushes out.
WoW! Now THAT sure is alot of information I would not have known otherwise.It's apparent that the ejection seat pretty much compares to getting shot out of a cannon,but I never looked at the big pic or was ever enlightened as much as I am from your reply to me Thank you. And believe me I have nothing but respect and admiration for these brave men and women and what they go thru in training. I didn't mean to minimize that with my post.I was just glad they 'landed safely' wo thinking of the plane
Who are they? What country were they from? What were they doing? Air Show? Training mission? Lost? Shot down? What were they flying? Did they land in the parking lot of a WalMart? Seems like it.
When the jet 1 flew over towards the 1:50 time stamp it reminded me of the blue angel pilot who crashed and the remainder of the blue angel flight flew past and at that time the pilots were devastated cause all they could see from the sky was a downed aircraft and a lot of smoke. Only one thing would go thru your mind when seeing your co pilot like that. As someone who loves aviation and with working on my Private Pilots Licence I still have worries about flying in certain conditions. You always have to be careful.
Good that they survived the incident. Back in 1973 (yr ?), during the war in Vietnam, I was a Navy corpsman (medic), training with the Marines on Pohakuloa, Hawaii. One night, we received 2 Marine pilots who were rescued from a crash of their F4 Phantom in the Pacific. Apparently, the aircraft got stuck in a banking turn. We were the nearest medical facility. Those guys were so scared and high on adrenaline, they were shaking and chattering incessantly from the near-death experience. The Navy doctor administered high doses of thorazine to bring them down and ordered a close watch on them overnight. They didn't sleep and were still shaky the next day when they got medevaced. I don't know if they ever flew again.
You know that feeling you got as a kid when you broke a dish that mom loved? Imagine the feeling after you just watched something break that cost several million and almost died in the process😳😳I'd say they handled it pretty well😬
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy the guys made it. But I'm not so sure they were. After all, it might have been better to stay in the cockpit than to have to listen to that constantly BS-speaking woman with that terrible voice. A voice like that from a person that can't stop talking, causes terminal ear-cancer.
They shut off their engines, that had failed, after they heard a large bang, and tried to glide the jet back to base. They then ejected at 2500 ft when they realised they wouldn't make it back.
Real Story: Danish pilot: "i wonder what it feels like to eject." Canadian pilot: "Hold my beer." Danish pilot: *Holds his beer* Canadian pilot: *points plane nose down" Plane: "pull-up! pull-up!" Both pilots: *push eject button* Danish pilot: "that was fun" Canadian pilot: "just brings us a little closer eh?" *Tide Commercial*
caravaggio31 ever been on a roller coaster? you know that queezy feeling in your stomach when the cart descends? thats how g's feel like. the largest most intense coaster is around 4-5 Gs for around 3 seconds. Now imagine having to control a sensitive aircraft going supersonic with a calm state of mind while pulling 7-9 G's for more than a couple minutes, all while trying to not get killed by enemy or endangering others. Mind you things get disastrous moment you're supersonic and most fighter jets aren't designed to go slower than that, so yes, they're pretty fucking brave. Brave also in the sense that we're currently bombing some barbarians known as ISIS who are known the burn captured pilots alive and torture them to get information out of them.
I just could not see any bravery! Ejecting to save your own life is in the nature of any sane individual. Nothing special was here, just two failed guys, regardless the cause! And of course a big-mouthed woman that is something very common everywhere! Lol
Daniel Osdinia It takes balls to pull the ejection seat levers. Ejecting is extremely painful, and can put you at risk to several injuries. It almost always causes spine compression, pilots who have ejected are 3 cm shorter than they were before. Besides, these men are plainly brave for flying a fighter in general. I'm sure a lot of people wouldn't like the idea of flying it.
How do you know they failed, troll? We don't know if it was pilot error or mechanical failure from this video. Do you feel better getting attention though? (Btw, investigation concluded it was turbine blade failure which makes sense as the wingman saw flames and smoke coming from the engine. They descended nearly 12,000ft without power before finally dumping it in a swamp. I'm not saying this is particularly heroic, but they aren't failures by any stretch.)
I lost a jet in 1985 UK slashed into the ocean it's almost unbearable. Almost happened again weeks later over land engine restart at 300 feet determined not to loose another £30 Million jet experience of the first loss gave both of us the confidence to stay the course. Bad experiences are vital to evolution of piloting.
