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Hi All!

I'm at home now, so I'm not wasting my employers time, and I don't think this
is too much of a waste of Technetter time, because I think there are more
than a few of us that would like to learn what actually happened with that
Thunderbird.

Go to: http://www.f-16.net/f-16_news_article842.html

There's two video clips there, one from a in-cockpit camera from take-off to
ejection, and another from the ground crew showing the ejection to the huge
fire-ball of impact. The accident report is at that page as well...everything is
pretty impressive.

It wasn't the engine eating itself up as I was originally led to believe, it
was pilot error. He only climbed to 1,670 feet before initiating pull down
into the split S manuver...he should have been at 2,500 feet. He made his
calculation based on an incorrect mean-sea-level altitude of the airfield...the
difference between Nellis AFB where the T-Birds practice, and Mt Home AFB, Idaho
where this airshow was held.

The pilot is now flying a desk in Washington, DC. He lucky to be alive, and
fortunate to not have injured or killed anybody else.

The ejection is remarkable. He ejected eight-tenths of a second before the
aircraft hit Terra Firma...or 140-feet above the ground.

-Steve Gregory-

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