No one was hurt.

This is what the author had wrote on the description:

"I thought you might find it interesting to see a crash from the cockpit of an airplane. Pretty interesting; it is an instructor pilot in the rear and a student in the front seat of an F-16.

A "Bird Strike," as seen through the Heads Up Display (HUD). You can see the bird flash by just prior to impacting the engine. You can hear the aircraft voice warning system telling them they have a problem and referring to the "D-6 NL" which means there is no engine RPM. They made 2 attempts to relight the jet engine, but evidently there was too much damage from the bird strike and they had to get out.

These guys were very cool; note the heavy breathing... they certainly flew longer than one would expect before ejecting. Airspeed can be observed on the HUD's upper left corner. It goes down to the low 120's as they struggle to get the engine going again, but as the plane noses over and dives to earth it increases to at least 175 just before impact.

It just goes to show how quickly your day can go to pieces - 45 seconds from strike to ejection.

All and all, not bad. They ran the emergency checklist, made two relight attempts, and picked out a plowed field for impact before ejecting. You can follow the audio attached to it and hear the conversation between the pilot and instructor pilot and then the tower including the pilot saying they were punching out. The tower didn't seem to completely understand it all, and missed the significance of the last transmission. His last radio call, he's talking to an empty aircraft.

The video continues until impact, even after they both eject. A classic "buying the farm" as you can see the plow rows get bigger. A real nice job from the aircrew by keeping their cool and turning the aircraft away from populated areas."

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Great post - and it is amazing how calm they sounded. Why do they make the computer voice sound like Johnny Olson announcing the next contestant on the Price is Right?

"No one was hurt."

POOR BIRDY!!

And another thing, how comes the aircraft's verbal warnings are delivered in an English accent? How odd.

the instructor's voice is perfectly calm, right up to "eject! eject!". must be odd to have to abandon a $30 million dollar piece of equipment.

I too wondered about the English accent. I didn't know we made the F-16s

I guess it must be a peice of generic software developed in UK or else the accent is american but the recording is bad.

Fun fact: "T6NL" is code for the number of people could've been fed instead of wasting another F-16.
OK, not really - but I think I've made my point.

Its says D-6 NL doesn't it?

Actually, it was T6NL, not D6NL.

The description you got from the video on google isn't totally accurate. There is a report on the accident here:
http://www.airforce.forces.gc.ca/dfs/docs/Fti/CT155202_e.asp

The reason the plane has an English accent is because it's a plane exported from Britain. It is not an 'F-16' but is actually a CT-155, described here:
http://www.airforce.forces.gc.ca/15wing/aircraft/ct155_e.asp

The pilots did not escape unharmed. According to the first link, 'One crewmember was seriously injured in the sequence and the other received minor injuries.'.

I'm just glad the bird was OK.

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I recently met a Canadian Forces pilot who is on an exchange programme with the UK forces. Based at a training squadron in Wales. The guy who was originally supposed to take the assignment in Wales was the Instructor of the plane in question and due to his injury (can't remember if it was a broken leg or something back related) had to give up the assignment.

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Now that i think of this, why dont they put some sort of metal mesh before the turbine to prevent foreign objects from entering. Surely, even one bird caught by this mesh would pay itself off.

Or am i overlooking something very obvious?

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Now that i think of this, why dont they put some sort of metal mesh before the turbine to prevent foreign objects from entering. Surely, even one bird caught by this mesh would pay itself off.
Or am i overlooking something very obvious?


I asked that exact question on youtube months ago and one of the answers I got is that when your going at speeds needed to fly, a screen will only slice up the bird/object, it still goes into the engine. although Personally I think it would help, although airflow would be lost as well it seems to work for radiators.

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