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Jbb
01-03-2007, 02:41 PM
Up close and personal... (http://www.dumbr.com/147_Wild-plane-crash.html)

mmered8299
01-03-2007, 02:47 PM
Holy Crap. Looks like he lost in the banking turn so tried to pull out with a loop. How the hell he ejected at less than 100' and lived is beyond me!

Jbb
01-03-2007, 02:50 PM
Holy Crap. Looks like he lost in the banking turn so tried to pull out with a loop. How the hell he ejected at less than 100' and lived is beyond me!
They probably have zero/zero seats like we do.....the rocket under his ass saved him....:D
Zero/Zero (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-zero_ejector_seat)

Propster
01-03-2007, 03:32 PM
That happened a few years ago at a european airshow. It was a Russian Mig 29. The pilot was doing a powered stall where he stops the plane vertically under thrust. He sucked a bird into the intake and stalled the engine. He managed to point the plane away from most of the specators before ejecting. Everyone was pretty lucky to come out of it without injury.