Harrier crash - seat ejection

[Victor Duarte]

Hi
it is a FW event but i can give a good idea of the time left to react..
Damnn, this guy wont go out tonight with the gorgeous blonde he was trying to impress.. :D :D or perhaps it was really too hot and the water so tempting.. no one was killed, we can laugh..

http://media.big-boys.com/files05/harrierfalls.wmv

[bones]

why was it dropping like it was do you know????

[Victor Duarte]

Mark, BBC News report of the incident

Pilot error caused the crash of a £15m Harrier jet at a Suffolk air show last year, an official inquiry has revealed.
Crowds on the seafront at Lowestoft watched as the RAF plane which had been hovering above the waves off-shore suddenly seemed to lose power and plunged 60 feet into the water.
The pilot Flight Lieutenant Tony Cann ejected to safety and suffered a broken ankle. The plane was later recovered from the sea bed.
Changes in pilot training have been recommended after it was discovered that a cockpit mistake by the flier was responsible for the crash.
An RAF board of inquiry has now established that Flight Lieutenant Cann had accidentally operated the controls for throttle and nozzle direction lever at the same time causing it to drop like a stone.
Flight Lieutenant Cann, who is now flying again and based at RAF Cottismore, is said to have received advice following the loss of the plane in August 2003.

more on http://www.big-boys.com/articles/harrierfalls.html

thanks

[Jerseywing]

He probably broke his ankle landing on his own plane...
Looks awful close to me

[bones]

£15m Harrier jet - sh*t next time i bend my little bird i wont be up for that type of price tag..

[Ruidoso Ron]

And Flight Lieutenant Cann is probably at RAF Cottismore, learning to fly a school bus.

[Victor Duarte]

Or perhaps selling donuts on the beach :D
A thing comes out from this : a harrier can't autorotate :D

[donshoebridge]

He probably broke his ankle landing on his own plane...
Looks awful close to me

I would have to agree.