Any Cause Info on Blue's Crash?

[MJG]

The video only shows the aircraft joining back up with a hard turn and then disappearing behind the tree line, it's from a very far distance away so you really don't see much.

Search Youtube.

 

[Bill Mostellar]

Hornet won't exceed 7.5 unless you over ride the G-limiter (or you yank, either way it's an over stress)... Hornet also bleeds like a stuck pig at 7.5 and can't sustain it very long unless in the vertical. Doesn't mean everything else you said isn't applicable though...

Thanks for the info; I didn't realize it was limited to 7.5.

I wish you success!
William

 

[bunk22]

Here's the release. Like the word going around the squadron, controlled flight into terrain.

http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080115/NEWS01/801150324/1006

 

[splatt]

A quote from the Pensacola News Journal article stating the cause:


failure to perform a proper anti-G straining maneuver resulted in him suffering possible physiological effects that contributed to his loss of situational awareness of his rate of decent and ultimately a controlled flight into the terrain," the report states.


Davis didn't black out from excessive Gs, Hanzlik said.

"In this particular case, Davis still had input on the aircraft. The onboard flight data recorders showed that there was still pressure on the flight controls. If he had been blacked out, then he would have completely released the flight controls."

Guadagnini said Davis "was trying to fly all the way down."

"We have evidence that he attempted to recover from the impact and regain situational awareness," he said.