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- --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 -----------------------------------------------------