11-24-2025, 09:33 PM
Terrible to see this crash but a good break down of what possibly happened..
We had a RTAF F-16 young buck doing a low fly by during a "show and tell" and at the end of the runway he pulled up and attempted a roll. He did not release the back pressure for the climb and became a lawn dart inverted with teeth hair and eye balls all over the dirt; hard to eject at 200 feet inverted and survive ... Rolls look easy but as with most things dealing with aviation your survival rate increases greatly if you know what to heck you are doing.
We had a RTAF F-16 young buck doing a low fly by during a "show and tell" and at the end of the runway he pulled up and attempted a roll. He did not release the back pressure for the climb and became a lawn dart inverted with teeth hair and eye balls all over the dirt; hard to eject at 200 feet inverted and survive ... Rolls look easy but as with most things dealing with aviation your survival rate increases greatly if you know what to heck you are doing.
