The Cornfield Bomber is an F-106 that entered a flat spin, pilot ejected, change in center of gravity resolve the flat spin and the plane made a pilotless landing in a corn field. It was later repaired and returned to service then donated to the National Museum of the United States Air Force where it is today.
No kidding.....this really happened. Look it up. Many years ago, an FB-111 was making an approach at night to Plattsburgh AFB in northern NY. The crew screwed up and landed at nearby Clinton County Airport (a GA field) and overran the runway. The crew egressed without ladders and literally had to walk to a nearby bar to call the Command Post. They wandered into the bar, still wearing flight suits and G-pants and had to make the call from a pay phone. When the guy at the Ops Desk picked up the phone, the crew tried to tell them about their situation......but the Duty Officer simply told them "Hey, I can't talk now, we just lost a 111." LOL!!
I’ve worked 911. I’ve managed 911 centers. She was utterly godawful. That call will be used as a training aide in 911 centers for years as a textbook example of things you should never do or say. And honestly after a few months on 911 lines there should not be anything that surprises or confuses you. She’s a 911 operator in the Carolina’s. As soon as she hears “the pilot ejected” she should damned well know what’s going on. While rare to see, it is something that is discussed and trained for at least once a year. “What to do if a military plane goes down” is something they do deal with periodically. They’ve had 3 nukes land on them.
Not any dispatcher. There's a few like the people reading and writing these comments who would have been excited and known a little about military aviation. If he had to inject I wish he had landed in my yard. I would have loved to have made that call!
@@dogma39-c4jhe's not wrong you'd be surprised what 911 dispatchers have as training scenarios and sop's for such situations. I know cause my mom was a 911 dispatcher and i sat at work with her alot as a kid. I'm all of two min into the video and she is just god awful. Even throwing out any sort of procedure they might or might not have for a pilot ejecting. The fact is she's asking entirely pointless questions that common sense says don't bother asking. As what ever procedure your trying to go with does not apply here. Edit: also dispatchers training does involve the use of botched 911 call records to train you with an example of how not to respond during a call situation similar. As well as successful calls. Cause there is no better training aid then real life situations whether the situation was resolved good or bad.
@@dogma39-c4j Should your sarcasm refer to the nukes: It may surprise you, but USAF DID loose several nukes over the decades. I can't remember if it was in Carolina, but there were several incidents about loosing nuclear weapons.
Too damn funny right there. As a Marine I can only imagine this poor guy hitting the ground and thinking, "Dude, were is my Jet?" And there is the phone call where our poor pilot realizes, 'this guy ain't helping....'
We had a German Air Force F-104G crash half a mile from our house when i was a kid. Only found out later the pilot ejected over 10km from there, it just pitched up after ejection and went on a little adventure.
You don't have to specify that a German F-104 crashed. That's just taken as given... Old West German joke: Q: How do you get your very own Starfighter? A: Buy a small patch of land and simply wait.
Lighting strike that kills the glass cockpit, when you're on an instrument approach with zero visibility at 2000 feet gives you very few options. No horizon and no visibility means that you could be seconds from crashing. Time to check out.
The fact that the pilot is all cool talking about what happened and, I can only imagine, the poor dispatcher thinking "man this has to be a prank but he sounds way too serious for it"
And as for the aircraft getting lost by ATC, it's not because it's stealth, he simply had changed his transponder to "D!€K 69" and they thought he was some RCAF frat pilot.
I don't know why NBC aired the call with photos/videos of the crash site. It's only adding to more confusion when it's unnecessary to do so. People automatically assume the pilot ejected in the "backwoods" when he landed in a neighborhood on South Kenwood Dr. The location is less than 2 miles east of Charleston International Airport. The street runs parallel with south aviation avenue. It's important to note that the weather kept most people inside. If it was a clear afternoon it's likely that someone would have seen something. Anyone who's familiar with the area understands how busy and populated the area is. Again if it was a clear afternoon people would have been out and about from I26 to all the islands. On the weekends people don't just drive over the Ravenel Bridge they hang out and site see. This is the same place where each year the Cooper River Bridge Run draws more than 40,000 runners and walkers to for the 10k race. Trying to clear up any misconceptions of what is backwoods and what is not.
Ha ha ha. I am LOVING the dispatcher’s reaction to this caller. I think she would’ve believed it more if he said he had an alien that landed in his backyard. 🤣🤣🤣
I'm a retired F-16 Avionics guy. The F-16 had a zeroize circuit that was engaged by the ejection seat leaving the plane. It would wipe out any classified info in the pilot's memory unit and in the F-16 systems. This would include the IFF codes. I don't know if it would also wipe out the Mode 2 & C circuits or just put the unit in standby mode. Thus I can see this as being the reason for the IFF transponder not working afterwards. Now ATC and the F-35's wingman are first focused on the pilot. Wingman is circling overhead talking to his bud while talking to ATC & their base or Joint Base Charleston's command post. He's going to be passing on pilot's parachute landing location, that he's ok, and to get rescue to that location. That's going to eat up some 5-10 minutes or more. The pilotless F-35 could be some 20+ miles away. Perhaps the radar altimeter has a default setting of say 300 feet and it could be masked by hills in the area at that distance making it tough for ATC or an F-35 to find it on radar. Calling 911 was simply the right thing to do cause he NEEDS an ambulance after suffering ejection related injuries and he wants 911 to know any 'explosion' calls are his jet vs say a typical car or house fire call. It would need a bigger response with firefighters ready to use foam vs water to fight the fire. It would also need a bigger police response to clear the area and to establish a perimeter. Calling Ops is a lower priority for the guy on the ground cause his wingman is already in contact with home station and others. Finally, I can relate to that 911 operator after working in a MOCC (maintenance operations center). I dealt with a couple of weird calls by visiting units and had to clarify with "Oh, is that an emergency? Do you need fire to respond?" Fun times.
"I guess we gotta a pilot at our house and he says he got ejected, or he ejected from a plane." I'm sorry what happened? "We gotta pilot in the house I guess he landed in our backyard." As a proud South Carolinian I heard this and immediately thought of Cheech and Chong! 😂
Couple of points. The marines typically practice touch and go landing at Charleston which he flew into that mesoscale convective system that was happening at the time. Also there is going to be recording of the F-35's perspective since those will be on the cans in the F-35. They'll eventually dig it out and they're about the size of a lunch box. So Beaufort will be able to decrypt it with their SOU and see everything what the pilot saw. As for the auto hover question, they don't have that ability so this is done manually still. So the auto ejection seat is only if certain conditions are met in hover mode but is disabled like what the pilot was doing with the touch and go exercise.
@@CWLemoinequestion I follow you on X and I was driving home from Charleston on the Tuesday after this happened and shot a video of a transport truck that I saw. Do you know how the military cleans up the debris area? I haven't shared it with anyone because I don't want to speculate on what I saw as strange.
Anytime someone says struck by lightning in front of Mover I always expect someone else or Mover would say that lightning isn't a joke and make it fun.
She's just going through the average trauma flow sheet for people that have suffered a fall. When your job is following protocols while people panic on the other end of the phone all day it's easy to get stuck in machine like routines.
If first responders think they see weird shit now, wait until autonomous robots start doing trash pickup, road repair, and that sort of thing. The combination of people being stupid and robots getting buggy is going to be insane.
I would imagine they called 911, just to get himself and his gear secured ASAP. Cant be just chilling in someone's house with all that bling for who knows how long, waiting for a ride. He's financially responsible.
Talking of jets that have flown themselves after pilot departure, you missed maybe the most well known. There was a Soviet jet in 1989 which went on a hell of an excursion on it's own. A MiG 23, it took off from Poland but immediately after take off the afterburner failed. The pilot, I believe thinking they were dealing with complete engine failure, chose to jettison the aircraft at about 150ft, and made it out safely. The engine however hadn't experienced complete failure, and kept running, just minus the afterburner. The aircraft then took itself around 900Km (600Mi) into Belgium, before finally running out of fuel and ending up in somebodies house. Sadly the crash killed one resident of the house. The MiG had been intercepted and there was a plan to shoot it down, but they had planned to wait until it got over the north sea, presumably to avoid risk to anyone on the ground, but unfortunately it ran out of fuel before making it that far.
I think the F35 having auto-landing with VTOL is a bad idea cause in enemy territory you don't want to accidentally have that activated and then unintentionally hand them an intact $150M+ aircraft that cost over $2T to design
Lightning is no joke, a friend of my father's Sammy Eskew was killed in November of 1978 here in South Carolina. Here's the basic information about the crash that killed 6. Capt. Eskew is one of six killed on a training mission when their Lockheed C-130E Hercules (68-10936) crashed on a Colleton County farm. The snub-nosed, four engine aircraft was assigned to the 317th Tactical Airlift Wing at Pope Air Force Base, NC. Although initial reports make no mention of unusual weather, it is eventually stated that the crash was the result of a lightning strike. Bits of the camouflaged green and brown fuselage were strewn over a large area and part of the plane's tail section was located at a school in Cottageville, a small community about 35 miles from Charleston. Also killed were: Capt. Mark D. Greer (Kewadin, MI) Capt. Daniel K. Morris SSgt. Robert J. Caton SSgt. Bernie C. Finch II AIC Robert M. Van Winkle (Denville, NJ)
The argument for modernization. Offices don't have backup typewriters, ships don't backup GPS with sextants and now not even paper charts, car gas pedals don't actually physically connect to the engine, car steering wheels don't always connect to the wheels, aircraft control surfaces don't physically connect to the stick... They should fix the problem. Rolling back the clock to use a knife in a gun fight is ridiculous.
To my friend Wombat, aside from the HMD, the hud display can be pulled up as a page on the PCD, also there is a standby flight display below the PCD, helmet degradation or HMD fail wouldn’t be a punch out situation. I do get what your saying tho and though I’m not a pilot I’ve saw several of the ICAWs in which the immediate action after troubleshooting is to punch out where I’ve thought you could easily walk it down to the deck first but I’m no engineer and there has to be good reasons for these.
Everybody at first was questioning how he didn't see what happened to the jet but I can attest to the weather being absolutely Delta Sierra on that day. I live in Columbia, SC and we got what is locally known as a 4 hour frog choker from 8 AM to noon. That weather was in Charleston just in time for the incident.
Dude, when I go skydiving and jump from the plane (voluntarily, with no panic or surprise) I often can't see where that much-slower-than-F-35 plane went on a clear day...
Facts! I live in Greenville but I was in North Charleston near Patriots Point until Tuesday, and NOAA issued severe weather warnings Sunday afternoon. The only problem I have with how the media reported this call was how they put a picture of the farm in Indiantown where the plane was found instead of the street next to the airport where the pilot landed after he punched out. Charleston isn't backwoods and if he had landed any further east he would have landed on 26!
I skydive and never have any idea what happened to the plane afterward. I hope and assume it landed fine, but even if I make a point of watching it fly away, it goes out of sight within 15 seconds tops. I don't think this pilot tried for even a second to watch his plane after being shot out by a rocket, losing his seat and being slammed by a round parachute designed to open as fast as possible. Anyone who flies commercially should look at FlightRadar app at how many airplanes are near them at any given moment. Then try to actually see any of them using your eyeballs. Good luck with that.
Our unit had a f-100 back in the 70s self fly after the stick monkey got out. Good ol pratt and Whitney huff and puffed. Pilot got out. Engine recovered and the plane flew for a while before belling in and stopped about 10 feet from I65 outside Columbus In. Plane was fix able. But they had the army crane it and they broke a bulk head.
I'm trained as 9-1-1 and by Canadian standards that operator screwed up in the first second of the call. I mean, I'd be flustered too if someone said "I have a pilot who landed in my back yard and needs an ambulance" but still. First, you get the phone number so that if the call drops you can call back. *Then* you get the address. Then you hear the word *ambulance* and you *dispatch an ambulance.* Only then do you try to untangle everything. Because if it turns out you didn't need the ambulance you can turn it around; but if you really did need it, then wasting 30 seconds trying to figure out what's going on might mean a dead patient. :/
I bet his back was hurting and he just wanted some help. Probably didn’t care about anything else since he would have assumed the plane was a smoking hole, while he was in pain with a more immediate concern.
I just feel bad now for all emergency operators. They're going to get a stupid training course on how to respond to a situation like this. It will be gov funded, meaning the training will be 5 hours way to long. And it won't even cover any of what is needed to do in that situation
What we're wondering is why an ejected pilot doesn't already have some sort of military transponder and radio on him to facilitate rescue. I would expect that as a matter of routine. I mean, what would have happened if he had landed in the wilderness with no phones around?
they usually have a radio beacon, or their wingman or flight lead can relay their coordinates but he was flying alone. but since he landed in a populated area.. a phone call is faster.
I don't believe this was a cell phone call from the pilot, rather from the owner of the house where he landed. Review the situation again and see if you agree.
Unfortunately, this is what happens when 9-1-1 dispatchers are forced to use protocol cards and are not allowed to deviate from them and use common sense, logic, and ask relevant questions.
Calling 911 because he doesn't even know where the aircraft went, or landed. He asked if there were any reports. The pilot was most likely nervous it crashed into an occupied building or residential area.
That poor 911 operator... they've dealt with heartattacks, flood victims, fire, "um i got drunk chopped my arm off with an axe"... but "i ejected from my f35, ww need to find where the plane crashed"? She had to be like "dafuq what??" All he wanted to do was 1. Make sure he followed up with medical in case he was hurt worse than he thought, but also 2. "Holy crap what family did i just kill with my f35-shaped bomb??!!"
Tbf I work in the emergency department and when someone says ejected it means from a car, typically a crash. After however many years she's worked there where that's what people mean when they say "ejected" I wouldn't think aircraft ejection either if I wasn't interested in aviation.
LMAO Can you imagine getting this 911 call. Like the dispatcher was like "Huh? Say what now? "Rejected"? No, maam "Ejected"! " LOL That was the first time I heard that he ejected. Auto ejected is the general consensus. LOL.
But did the homeowner have any crayons to soothe the poor Marine's appetite? Oh Gawd ... I ejected and all the Crayola's in my survival pack are broken!!!!
12:30 Makes me ponder the viability of reaction control thrusters like on a space craft for breaking high AoA stalls. On second thought, extremely not very.
ejection is confirmation of already lost plane, mostly. no need to be afraid of that. the ground thing is funny though. phone guy had VIP call. if second one ever lands in his yard that'd be a story.
911 commander: "add this this to the script! send it to the internet!!!" i'm glad no one was injured and the pilot is OK. good on the folks that took him in! i totally see an award for everyone in the family like a public service command type award. thanks guys and gals.
Guys, remember when we flew in formation? Only lead would squawk. Also, hard for me to believe that the squadron duty desk number isn’t ingrained in his head. I retired in 2014 and had that number memorized.
Is that what it was? I had only heard they were in formation and for some reason I thought they were on approach/rtb. I just read an article about the 911 call. They were “low” but it didn’t say departing or recovering. The other interesting note was that according to the AP article, the pilot said he was 47. If true that is pretty old and more than likely a senior O5/O6.
We don’t know. It’s possible he had the failure prior and was doing a formation approach, in which case you’re right. But normally you’d either do a radar trail recovery or singletons. Formation approaches aren’t done operationally much anymore.
@@CWLemoineI’m a fossil at this point, I know, but are the systems such that an attitude failure is such a low probability now that a section approach isn’t practiced? Do they still do GCA? I was on a trip with a former TopGun/F-18E/F guy. He said that coupled approaches are common if not standard. Hornet guys always had an advantage with the FPV, but it is just hard for an old brain like mine to wrap my head around those skills not being taught anymore. But then again, there wasn’t much emphasis on flying needle ball after T-34’s.
How about giving each pilot Garmin inReadh Mini? $350 is not that much in comparison with F-35 price. Or PLB? Just keep it in the pocket and press the red button when such mishap happens. What if it happened in the middle of a desert where there are no backyards?
The 9-1-1 exchange was absolutely hilarious and I can TOTALLY see that happening! What’s really crazy to me though is listening to you guys, all experienced fighter pilots dissecting this incident and not having ALL the answers, and thinking about other posts I’ve come across where non-pilot know-it-all keyboard warriors speak/write with such authority and definity about what happened and or should have happened! The internet is such a crazy place where people without ANY experience or actual knowledge profess their superiority of knowledge over someone who actually has the experience and working knowledge on that particular subject.
The Cornfield Bomber is an F-106 that entered a flat spin, pilot ejected, change in center of gravity resolve the flat spin and the plane made a pilotless landing in a corn field. It was later repaired and returned to service then donated to the National Museum of the United States Air Force where it is today.
There was a Bone that did similar as well
The guy who ejected later flew it again as well.
No kidding.....this really happened. Look it up. Many years ago, an FB-111 was making an approach at night to Plattsburgh AFB in northern NY. The crew screwed up and landed at nearby Clinton County Airport (a GA field) and overran the runway. The crew egressed without ladders and literally had to walk to a nearby bar to call the Command Post. They wandered into the bar, still wearing flight suits and G-pants and had to make the call from a pay phone. When the guy at the Ops Desk picked up the phone, the crew tried to tell them about their situation......but the Duty Officer simply told them "Hey, I can't talk now, we just lost a 111." LOL!!
Wow that's hilarious 😂😂😂
Link?
IMO any dispatcher would be confused. This is like receiving a once in a life time unlucky call from a pilot
I’ve worked 911. I’ve managed 911 centers. She was utterly godawful. That call will be used as a training aide in 911 centers for years as a textbook example of things you should never do or say. And honestly after a few months on 911 lines there should not be anything that surprises or confuses you. She’s a 911 operator in the Carolina’s. As soon as she hears “the pilot ejected” she should damned well know what’s going on. While rare to see, it is something that is discussed and trained for at least once a year. “What to do if a military plane goes down” is something they do deal with periodically. They’ve had 3 nukes land on them.
@@andrewtaylor940 Sure Andrew
Not any dispatcher. There's a few like the people reading and writing these comments who would have been excited and known a little about military aviation.
If he had to inject I wish he had landed in my yard. I would have loved to have made that call!
@@dogma39-c4jhe's not wrong you'd be surprised what 911 dispatchers have as training scenarios and sop's for such situations. I know cause my mom was a 911 dispatcher and i sat at work with her alot as a kid. I'm all of two min into the video and she is just god awful. Even throwing out any sort of procedure they might or might not have for a pilot ejecting. The fact is she's asking entirely pointless questions that common sense says don't bother asking. As what ever procedure your trying to go with does not apply here.
Edit: also dispatchers training does involve the use of botched 911 call records to train you with an example of how not to respond during a call situation similar. As well as successful calls. Cause there is no better training aid then real life situations whether the situation was resolved good or bad.
@@dogma39-c4j Should your sarcasm refer to the nukes: It may surprise you, but USAF DID loose several nukes over the decades.
I can't remember if it was in Carolina, but there were several incidents about loosing nuclear weapons.
“How far was the fall?”
“About 2000 feet” 😂
What caused the fall
That's when he should have said " Ladder broke".@@X02AC3
@@X02AC3translated: dafuq what???
He should have answered ‘Gravity’.
@@alanholck7995 1 year later the answer turn out to be incompetence but nice try
"I'm sorry, What happened???" The tone of voice from the 911 operator is priceless.
Too damn funny right there. As a Marine I can only imagine this poor guy hitting the ground and thinking, "Dude, were is my Jet?" And there is the phone call where our poor pilot realizes, 'this guy ain't helping....'
We had a German Air Force F-104G crash half a mile from our house when i was a kid.
Only found out later the pilot ejected over 10km from there, it just pitched up after ejection and went on a little adventure.
You don't have to specify that a German F-104 crashed. That's just taken as given...
Old West German joke:
Q: How do you get your very own Starfighter?
A: Buy a small patch of land and simply wait.
I hate that you used miles and km in the same comment...pick one!
The plane wants to fly, it is the human that crashes it.
Lighting strike that kills the glass cockpit, when you're on an instrument approach with zero visibility at 2000 feet gives you very few options. No horizon and no visibility means that you could be seconds from crashing. Time to check out.
The fact that the pilot is all cool talking about what happened and, I can only imagine, the poor dispatcher thinking "man this has to be a prank but he sounds way too serious for it"
This reminds me of Maverick entering a rural restaurant, and the confusion the patrons had on their face looking at him...
Between a clueless 911 Operator and a military pilot using military aviation jargon, the 911 call was like a human talking to a fish.
And as for the aircraft getting lost by ATC, it's not because it's stealth, he simply had changed his transponder to "D!€K 69" and they thought he was some RCAF frat pilot.
At least he didn't have some branches stuck to his helmet, get shot as a deer, then have his head mounted on the wall like Mailman did.
This is pure gold. Gotta love the Marines.
Poor 911 dispatcher was not prepared for that. Totally not in their playbook.
I don't know why NBC aired the call with photos/videos of the crash site. It's only adding to more confusion when it's unnecessary to do so. People automatically assume the pilot ejected in the "backwoods" when he landed in a neighborhood on South Kenwood Dr. The location is less than 2 miles east of Charleston International Airport. The street runs parallel with south aviation avenue. It's important to note that the weather kept most people inside. If it was a clear afternoon it's likely that someone would have seen something. Anyone who's familiar with the area understands how busy and populated the area is. Again if it was a clear afternoon people would have been out and about from I26 to all the islands. On the weekends people don't just drive over the Ravenel Bridge they hang out and site see. This is the same place where each year the Cooper River Bridge Run draws more than 40,000 runners and walkers to for the 10k race.
Trying to clear up any misconceptions of what is backwoods and what is not.
Ha ha ha. I am LOVING the dispatcher’s reaction to this caller. I think she would’ve believed it more if he said he had an alien that landed in his backyard. 🤣🤣🤣
Listening to that dispatcher was very painful...
To be fair they have to read off a script and I doubt anything comes close to what they are describing. Its not an easy job.
@@thenateo1610 - Agree. That dispatcher had no clue how to handle the call. She did get through it, I guess.
Rescue is sent immediately, then questions are asked to communicate to the responding paramedics in order to save treatment time upon arrival.
It was indeed M’lord.
( I too am a Star Wars fan)
VA: Your back pain is not service related
"Sorry sir, it was a result of you abandoning your post."
That Call was Priceless.
This was like an old Bob Newhart routine.
I'm a retired F-16 Avionics guy. The F-16 had a zeroize circuit that was engaged by the ejection seat leaving the plane. It would wipe out any classified info in the pilot's memory unit and in the F-16 systems. This would include the IFF codes. I don't know if it would also wipe out the Mode 2 & C circuits or just put the unit in standby mode. Thus I can see this as being the reason for the IFF transponder not working afterwards.
Now ATC and the F-35's wingman are first focused on the pilot. Wingman is circling overhead talking to his bud while talking to ATC & their base or Joint Base Charleston's command post. He's going to be passing on pilot's parachute landing location, that he's ok, and to get rescue to that location. That's going to eat up some 5-10 minutes or more. The pilotless F-35 could be some 20+ miles away. Perhaps the radar altimeter has a default setting of say 300 feet and it could be masked by hills in the area at that distance making it tough for ATC or an F-35 to find it on radar.
Calling 911 was simply the right thing to do cause he NEEDS an ambulance after suffering ejection related injuries and he wants 911 to know any 'explosion' calls are his jet vs say a typical car or house fire call. It would need a bigger response with firefighters ready to use foam vs water to fight the fire. It would also need a bigger police response to clear the area and to establish a perimeter. Calling Ops is a lower priority for the guy on the ground cause his wingman is already in contact with home station and others.
Finally, I can relate to that 911 operator after working in a MOCC (maintenance operations center). I dealt with a couple of weird calls by visiting units and had to clarify with "Oh, is that an emergency? Do you need fire to respond?" Fun times.
"I guess we gotta a pilot at our house and he says he got ejected, or he ejected from a plane."
I'm sorry what happened? "We gotta pilot in the house I guess he landed in our backyard."
As a proud South Carolinian I heard this and immediately thought of Cheech and Chong! 😂
After they finish the AIB, I really hope you can get that marine on the channel for an interview.
Couple of points. The marines typically practice touch and go landing at Charleston which he flew into that mesoscale convective system that was happening at the time. Also there is going to be recording of the F-35's perspective since those will be on the cans in the F-35. They'll eventually dig it out and they're about the size of a lunch box. So Beaufort will be able to decrypt it with their SOU and see everything what the pilot saw. As for the auto hover question, they don't have that ability so this is done manually still. So the auto ejection seat is only if certain conditions are met in hover mode but is disabled like what the pilot was doing with the touch and go exercise.
Spoiler: they won't find anything. Because this never happened.
@@smevox7490Riiiight
They already found the wreckage, so there’s that.
@@CWLemoinequestion I follow you on X and I was driving home from Charleston on the Tuesday after this happened and shot a video of a transport truck that I saw. Do you know how the military cleans up the debris area? I haven't shared it with anyone because I don't want to speculate on what I saw as strange.
@@CWLemoine I mean if you believe the US government ;)
Anytime someone says struck by lightning in front of Mover I always expect someone else or Mover would say that lightning isn't a joke and make it fun.
I'm watching this from a 911 communication center LOL
the F35 deemed human pilots as a safety hazard, became sentient, and ejected the pilot
Can you hold?
What page is this on? Where are my questions for this?
Ok... how high was the fall?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
That had me rolling also, "How high was the fall".. ha ha ha ha
The best part of the call 😂
Great Top Gun Maverick reference by Gonky.
Pilot > I ejected at 2000 feet, 911 operator > What caused the fall? Wow!
She's just going through the average trauma flow sheet for people that have suffered a fall. When your job is following protocols while people panic on the other end of the phone all day it's easy to get stuck in machine like routines.
"The plane did"
:P
I had a disagreement with my airplane so we parted ways.
Gravity, ma'am.
If first responders think they see weird shit now, wait until autonomous robots start doing trash pickup, road repair, and that sort of thing. The combination of people being stupid and robots getting buggy is going to be insane.
“I don’t have a tab for this in my 3 ring binder!”
"...he's wearing his instruments..." lol True.
“Fat amy driver jumped out” 😂
This is the greatest 911 call I’ve ever heard
My favorite part is how he answers the age question and then his brain reboots at how dumb it was he was asked that or bothered to answer it.
I would imagine they called 911, just to get himself and his gear secured ASAP. Cant be just chilling in someone's house with all that bling for who knows how long, waiting for a ride. He's financially responsible.
Fat Amy kicked him out
Talking of jets that have flown themselves after pilot departure, you missed maybe the most well known. There was a Soviet jet in 1989 which went on a hell of an excursion on it's own. A MiG 23, it took off from Poland but immediately after take off the afterburner failed. The pilot, I believe thinking they were dealing with complete engine failure, chose to jettison the aircraft at about 150ft, and made it out safely. The engine however hadn't experienced complete failure, and kept running, just minus the afterburner. The aircraft then took itself around 900Km (600Mi) into Belgium, before finally running out of fuel and ending up in somebodies house. Sadly the crash killed one resident of the house.
The MiG had been intercepted and there was a plan to shoot it down, but they had planned to wait until it got over the north sea, presumably to avoid risk to anyone on the ground, but unfortunately it ran out of fuel before making it that far.
He landed in north charleston. It was heavily populated. He ejected over one of the most populated areas of charleson.
I think the F35 having auto-landing with VTOL is a bad idea cause in enemy territory you don't want to accidentally have that activated and then unintentionally hand them an intact $150M+ aircraft that cost over $2T to design
Gold! Pure gold! Love you guys!
Cornfield bomber - I remember the pictures!
Fat Amy spit him out.
Lightning is no joke, a friend of my father's Sammy Eskew was killed in November of 1978 here in South Carolina.
Here's the basic information about the crash that killed 6.
Capt. Eskew is one of six killed on a training mission when their Lockheed C-130E Hercules (68-10936) crashed on a Colleton County farm.
The snub-nosed, four engine aircraft was assigned to the 317th Tactical Airlift Wing at Pope Air Force Base, NC.
Although initial reports make no mention of unusual weather, it is eventually stated that the crash was the result of a lightning strike.
Bits of the camouflaged green and brown fuselage were strewn over a large area and part of the plane's tail section was located at a school in Cottageville, a small community about 35 miles from Charleston.
Also killed were:
Capt. Mark D. Greer (Kewadin, MI)
Capt. Daniel K. Morris
SSgt. Robert J. Caton
SSgt. Bernie C. Finch II
AIC Robert M. Van Winkle (Denville, NJ)
Mover has been struck by lightning while flying the Viper.. his flight lead took the brunt of it, and had to be talked down as he was disoriented.
😂😂😂
“How do you fly instruments when you have no instruments?”
“He took his instruments with him when he punched out.”
The argument for modernization. Offices don't have backup typewriters, ships don't backup GPS with sextants and now not even paper charts, car gas pedals don't actually physically connect to the engine, car steering wheels don't always connect to the wheels, aircraft control surfaces don't physically connect to the stick...
They should fix the problem. Rolling back the clock to use a knife in a gun fight is ridiculous.
Gonky said "really??" the way that someone who carried a cell phone with them for every flight in the military would have
That would be awesome to hear the report in the future 😊
To my friend Wombat, aside from the HMD, the hud display can be pulled up as a page on the PCD, also there is a standby flight display below the PCD, helmet degradation or HMD fail wouldn’t be a punch out situation. I do get what your saying tho and though I’m not a pilot I’ve saw several of the ICAWs in which the immediate action after troubleshooting is to punch out where I’ve thought you could easily walk it down to the deck first but I’m no engineer and there has to be good reasons for these.
The woman thought the guy fell out of the plane 😂
That 2000 foot fall had to hurt😂
Pilot “Dude…where’s my jet?”
Isn't there a number you can call if you eject from your f-35 !? 😂
Everybody at first was questioning how he didn't see what happened to the jet but I can attest to the weather being absolutely Delta Sierra on that day. I live in Columbia, SC and we got what is locally known as a 4 hour frog choker from 8 AM to noon. That weather was in Charleston just in time for the incident.
Dude, when I go skydiving and jump from the plane (voluntarily, with no panic or surprise) I often can't see where that much-slower-than-F-35 plane went on a clear day...
Facts! I live in Greenville but I was in North Charleston near Patriots Point until Tuesday, and NOAA issued severe weather warnings Sunday afternoon.
The only problem I have with how the media reported this call was how they put a picture of the farm in Indiantown where the plane was found instead of the street next to the airport where the pilot landed after he punched out. Charleston isn't backwoods and if he had landed any further east he would have landed on 26!
I skydive and never have any idea what happened to the plane afterward. I hope and assume it landed fine, but even if I make a point of watching it fly away, it goes out of sight within 15 seconds tops.
I don't think this pilot tried for even a second to watch his plane after being shot out by a rocket, losing his seat and being slammed by a round parachute designed to open as fast as possible. Anyone who flies commercially should look at FlightRadar app at how many airplanes are near them at any given moment. Then try to actually see any of them using your eyeballs. Good luck with that.
Our unit had a f-100 back in the 70s self fly after the stick monkey got out. Good ol pratt and Whitney huff and puffed. Pilot got out. Engine recovered and the plane flew for a while before belling in and stopped about 10 feet from I65 outside Columbus In. Plane was fix able. But they had the army crane it and they broke a bulk head.
I'm trained as 9-1-1 and by Canadian standards that operator screwed up in the first second of the call. I mean, I'd be flustered too if someone said "I have a pilot who landed in my back yard and needs an ambulance" but still. First, you get the phone number so that if the call drops you can call back. *Then* you get the address. Then you hear the word *ambulance* and you *dispatch an ambulance.* Only then do you try to untangle everything. Because if it turns out you didn't need the ambulance you can turn it around; but if you really did need it, then wasting 30 seconds trying to figure out what's going on might mean a dead patient. :/
I bet his back was hurting and he just wanted some help. Probably didn’t care about anything else since he would have assumed the plane was a smoking hole, while he was in pain with a more immediate concern.
I can understand that any dispatcher would be caught off guard by this but she is not confidence inspiring.
I just feel bad now for all emergency operators. They're going to get a stupid training course on how to respond to a situation like this. It will be gov funded, meaning the training will be 5 hours way to long. And it won't even cover any of what is needed to do in that situation
Ten hours of powerpoints in a lounge chair with no-doze ;)
What a bizarre set of circumstances
Gonky calling in from a parking garage? Neat.
Well done. Thank you!
Early in that sound clip you can hear the pilot speaking to someone on another phone and it sounds like he is speaking to someone in his command.
Or speaking to someone else in the home.
That guy sounds just like Gonky
I thought it was Gonky doing a spoof of the call.
Around 2:02 you can hear him talking to his command (?) in the background "I'm in a neighborhood...everything completely failed"
Our SERE guy always told us to find the nearest McDonalds and call them when we did flagpole sortie step briefs lol
What we're wondering is why an ejected pilot doesn't already have some sort of military transponder and radio on him to facilitate rescue. I would expect that as a matter of routine. I mean, what would have happened if he had landed in the wilderness with no phones around?
They do have that equipment but in a situation like this a phone call is just easier.
they usually have a radio beacon, or their wingman or flight lead can relay their coordinates but he was flying alone. but since he landed in a populated area.. a phone call is faster.
This is one of the most baffling 9-11 calls I’ve ever heard. That dispatcher sounds baked asf not gonna lie 😂
Any crayon eating devil dog worth his weight in MREs always uses knife hands during phone conversations.
I don't believe this was a cell phone call from the pilot, rather from the owner of the house where he landed. Review the situation again and see if you agree.
This woman had no clue that military airplanes exist, let alone that they have ejection seats.
Ah I want to report my missing F-35. Last seen heading north
Unfortunately, this is what happens when 9-1-1 dispatchers are forced to use protocol cards and are not allowed to deviate from them and use common sense, logic, and ask relevant questions.
Calling 911 because he doesn't even know where the aircraft went, or landed. He asked if there were any reports. The pilot was most likely nervous it crashed into an occupied building or residential area.
Man that was painful to listen to.
Her script definitely did not cover this situation.
When the new F35 software upgrade allows it to fly home, land, taxi and park itself long after it’s pilot has ejected, you know pilots are done…
Gonky, Rodrigo Dill here. Milk just came out of my nose.
Ma'am I'm a military pilot. I was forced to eject and I don't know where my plane went. Ok what part of the body is injured. Um um um um um lmao
This AIB report is going to be interesting
That poor 911 operator... they've dealt with heartattacks, flood victims, fire, "um i got drunk chopped my arm off with an axe"... but "i ejected from my f35, ww need to find where the plane crashed"? She had to be like "dafuq what??"
All he wanted to do was 1. Make sure he followed up with medical in case he was hurt worse than he thought, but also 2. "Holy crap what family did i just kill with my f35-shaped bomb??!!"
Just think … find my app on a jet fighter
Maybe she wasn't familiar with the term "ejected" and assumed he meant something else!
Tbf I work in the emergency department and when someone says ejected it means from a car, typically a crash. After however many years she's worked there where that's what people mean when they say "ejected" I wouldn't think aircraft ejection either if I wasn't interested in aviation.
@@Anonymous8421 I think James Bond had an ejection seat in one of his cars.
LMAO Can you imagine getting this 911 call. Like the dispatcher was like "Huh? Say what now? "Rejected"? No, maam "Ejected"! " LOL That was the first time I heard that he ejected. Auto ejected is the general consensus. LOL.
2000ft fall that is like a fall level 20
But did the homeowner have any crayons to soothe the poor Marine's appetite? Oh Gawd ... I ejected and all the Crayola's in my survival pack are broken!!!!
12:30 Makes me ponder the viability of reaction control thrusters like on a space craft for breaking high AoA stalls. On second thought, extremely not very.
0:17 "Jumped out" like he's hopping out of his Toyota Prius at the gas station. I'm ded. 😅☠
Another good one is "Jettisoned the aircraft."
ejection is confirmation of already lost plane, mostly. no need to be afraid of that. the ground thing is funny though. phone guy had VIP call. if second one ever lands in his yard that'd be a story.
Mover …right as I was about type it you said it…Cornfield Bomber 😂 plane showed him how to grease it in 😂
Not sure my first reaction would be to draw my firearm on a marine that just fell out of the sky. I might be the one having a bad day 😂
After punch out pilot should have walked towards home owner and say Sir Are You My DADDY???
for such an expensive high tech plan, it could have landed on its own :) or hell even fly back to where it started :)
911 commander: "add this this to the script! send it to the internet!!!" i'm glad no one was injured and the pilot is OK. good on the folks that took him in! i totally see an award for everyone in the family like a public service command type award. thanks guys and gals.
#11:10 like in the movie "stealth" where the AI takes over the plane at the end. :)
Guys, remember when we flew in formation? Only lead would squawk. Also, hard for me to believe that the squadron duty desk number isn’t ingrained in his head. I retired in 2014 and had that number memorized.
Yes but you’d both squawk on a radar or sensor trail recovery.
Is that what it was? I had only heard they were in formation and for some reason I thought they were on approach/rtb.
I just read an article about the 911 call. They were “low” but it didn’t say departing or recovering. The other interesting note was that according to the AP article, the pilot said he was 47. If true that is pretty old and more than likely a senior O5/O6.
We don’t know. It’s possible he had the failure prior and was doing a formation approach, in which case you’re right. But normally you’d either do a radar trail recovery or singletons. Formation approaches aren’t done operationally much anymore.
@@CWLemoineI’m a fossil at this point, I know, but are the systems such that an attitude failure is such a low probability now that a section approach isn’t practiced? Do they still do GCA? I was on a trip with a former TopGun/F-18E/F guy. He said that coupled approaches are common if not standard. Hornet guys always had an advantage with the FPV, but it is just hard for an old brain like mine to wrap my head around those skills not being taught anymore. But then again, there wasn’t much emphasis on flying needle ball after T-34’s.
Lightning can't hit another lightning... it just obvious... duh!
How about giving each pilot Garmin inReadh Mini? $350 is not that much in comparison with F-35 price. Or PLB? Just keep it in the pocket and press the red button when such mishap happens. What if it happened in the middle of a desert where there are no backyards?
They have equipment to communicate and relay their location but in this case it’s just easier to make a call.
The 9-1-1 exchange was absolutely hilarious and I can TOTALLY see that happening! What’s really crazy to me though is listening to you guys, all experienced fighter pilots dissecting this incident and not having ALL the answers, and thinking about other posts I’ve come across where non-pilot know-it-all keyboard warriors speak/write with such authority and definity about what happened and or should have happened! The internet is such a crazy place where people without ANY experience or actual knowledge profess their superiority of knowledge over someone who actually has the experience and working knowledge on that particular subject.
Any blood ? No, just a compressed back !