U-2 down in CA
09-21-2016 | 09:30 AM
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09-21-2016 | 11:24 PM
#13
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From: Boeing right seat
Each ejection was different.
In one, it was a high-altitude break up in extreme turbulence. He ejected somewhere along the way, and hit something (possibly the canopy) with his head.
In the second, jet came out of maintenance and was on an FCF flight. Little did the pilot know, but there was a high pressure hydro leak. The atomized hydro fluid was like a blow torch. During the stall series, the flight controls burned through. Plane went into a flat spin around FL220. At 5,000, he ejected... right as the fire exploded the wing fuel tanks. It blew the wing panels off, and he ejected into the frag pattern. A panel hit him and killed him instantly. In fact, it ripped the entire back of the seat off of the seat bottom. He still got a full chute. Had he ejected a second or two earlier... or maybe even later... he would have survived.
We will learn more on this one soon enough.
https://www.youcaring.com/ashley-eadie-654162
In one, it was a high-altitude break up in extreme turbulence. He ejected somewhere along the way, and hit something (possibly the canopy) with his head.
In the second, jet came out of maintenance and was on an FCF flight. Little did the pilot know, but there was a high pressure hydro leak. The atomized hydro fluid was like a blow torch. During the stall series, the flight controls burned through. Plane went into a flat spin around FL220. At 5,000, he ejected... right as the fire exploded the wing fuel tanks. It blew the wing panels off, and he ejected into the frag pattern. A panel hit him and killed him instantly. In fact, it ripped the entire back of the seat off of the seat bottom. He still got a full chute. Had he ejected a second or two earlier... or maybe even later... he would have survived.
We will learn more on this one soon enough.
https://www.youcaring.com/ashley-eadie-654162
