Dubai Airshow Crash...

[Fat Fairy]

It looks bad for an Indian AF Tejas at Dubai Airshow. No sign of an ejection.

https://gulfnews.com/amp/story/uae%2Ffighter-plane...

[MartG]

Independant reporting that the pilot was killed

[Panamax]

Doesn't look like any power on in this clip and gravity took over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ5mx_H-CCk

[Peterpetrole]

From that link, was flat and level then pitched over straight nosedive jeez

Elevator uncommanded action?

Edit - oh that other video is clearer, lack of power

Edited by Peterpetrole on Friday 21st November 11:38

[LivLL]

Not sure why there was no ejection, they have the tried and tested UK made Martin Baker ejection seat.

[IanH755]

LivLL said:

Not sure why there was no ejection, they have the tried and tested UK made Martin Baker ejection seat.

Usually its either a lack of awareness (didn't recognise the threat) and/or thought they could get out of the situation using more stick input. GLOC for display pilots is a distant 3rd alongside mechanical issues so for most display crashes its a combo of 1 and/or 2.

[aeropilot]

IanH755 said:

LivLL said:

Not sure why there was no ejection, they have the tried and tested UK made Martin Baker ejection seat.

Usually its either a lack of awareness (didn't recognise the threat) and/or thought they could get out of the situation using more stick input. GLOC for display pilots is a distant 3rd alongside mechanical issues so for most display crashes its a combo of 1 and/or 2.

I'm guessing that it was the former, given that after the nose pulled through inverted, he was able to roll back through 180, so must have been in control and aware, so guess he thought he'd saved it, and thus didn't bang out, but instead just mushed straight into the ground.

There's a video of his display the previous day, and its really hard to see how he got it so wrong from what the routine he'd done the previous day...?

[Ceeejay]

This clip from about 25 seconds in

https://x.com/epropoganda1/status/1991823720890134...

Looks to be either a knife edge pass, or it’s been pulling a negative G long turn…. Whatever the entry to the manoeuvre, there was clearly something out of the norm that caused the aircraft to roll and pull at the same time….

[Austin Prefect]

It looks to me as though the difference from the previous day is that after the knife edge pass banking to the right, the pilot rolled right instead of left so lost too much height.

[ecs]

There are some longer videos going around now - seems like a tragic mistake where the pilot levelled out from the previous manoeuvre lower than expected. Can see both wings are stalled and the afterburner working before impact.

[Panamax]

ecs said:

Can see .... the afterburner working before impact.

??? I haven't seen that on the clips I've looked at. Do you have a better link?

[ecs]

It was on Facebook and I’ve lost it now - was a really close video where you could see the turbulent airflow on the top wing surface as the aircraft was pulling out of the final manoeuvre. Can see the engine quite well in this one though:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comme...

[zsdom]

There’s no afterburner in that video, the engine is venting but not afterburning