Beautiful plane. I saw two of these crash land at KKMC during the gulf war. The first one buckled his gear and slid down the runway, pilot was OK. The second one was a week or so later; he hit the ground really hard (hydraulics out), bounced off the ground and went up nearly vertical, slowly rolled over, stalled and landed upside down in a huge fireball. I was on the flight line in both incidents and helped establish the cordon to protect the scene. Not sure why I'm posting this now, I haven't really told anyone about it but I think about it often.
Beautiful plane. I saw two of these crash land at KKMC during the gulf war. The first one buckled his gear and slid down the runway, pilot was OK. The second one was a week or so later; he hit the ground really hard (hydraulics out), bounced off the ground and went up nearly vertical, slowly rolled over, stalled and landed upside down in a huge fireball. I was on the flight line in both incidents and helped establish the cordon to protect the scene. Not sure why I'm posting this now, I haven't really told anyone about it but I think about it often.
@@youtube-ventura wow, I’m sure that is something that would stick with you. I can’t imagine.
Sounds so good!
@@JRMFirearms-ci8lr agreed!