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Amazing how the seat seemed to instantly right itself

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20 ... et-crashes

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There has been a fair bit of coverage of this incident over here but I haven't seen those images. That's one ballsy photographer.

Great to hear the pilot is alive

There aren't acually that many photos that qualify as "amazing", but these do.

JLAmber wrote:Great to hear the pilot is alive

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Incredible photos. A right engine failure during the High Alpha pass? Talk about about a rotten time to have a flameout. Am glad the pilot is okay.

The low altitude ejection reminds me of the 1989 Paris Air Show MiG-29 crash:

Cool pictures!

JeffSFO wrote: A right engine failure during the High Alpha pass? Talk about about a rotten time to have a flameout. [/img]

The first picture does seem to quite clearly show a failed engine. Talk about rotten luck.

Good thing the pilot had the presence of mind to eject out of the real canopy and not out of the false canopy the CF-18's have painted on the bottom of them.

Right engine took a dump, only thing to do is yank the loud handle.

Incredible photos. But, can you imagine the view from the seat as that unfolds in slow motion?

JeffSFO wrote:The low altitude ejection reminds me of the 1989 Paris Air Show MiG-29 crash:

Anatoly Kvotchur, IIRC... I don't know why his name stuck in my head, but it did.