OT: video of engine failure and crew abandon ac

if you ever get round to spotting at Valley, you’ll see this practised quite frequently.

I had the pleasure of doing just that a couple of years ago when on holiday at Treaddur bay, It must have been a damn good wake up call to some young cocky jet jocks!!!!!!.

John.

I had this in my inbox in August 2005.

Good footage here of a low level bird strike on a single-engine Canadian BAE Hawk trainer/fighter aircraft. The aircraft, with a student and instructor aboard, has just finished a low approach at the home airfield, and requested a closed pattern for a landing.

As they start to climb to altitude, a bird appears coming rapidly toward them across the windshield and goes down the left engine intake causing immediate engine failure. They make a couple of quick and unsuccessful attempts to restart the engine, then realize that they must eject.? (Note the airspeed numbers on the left side of the Heads-Up Display. They’re at about 240 kts when they hit the bird, and thereafter it bleeds off to 120-130 during the glide/restarts.)

Both pilots made a successful ejection, and the camera photographing the Heads-Up-Display in the now unoccupied jet continues until the jet crashes in a farm field.

Turn up sound to listen to conversation.

its standard procedure to pull up, and try to turn around, and land where you’ve just come from in a Hawk.
i used to work on the line on them, and i never really got used to the roar of take off/go around power suddenly stopping as the instructor slammed the throttle back to simulate an engine failure during take off.

if you ever get round to spotting at Valley, you’ll see this practised quite frequently.

This has been discussed on another forum very recently and there is a very in depth explanation of what happened.

http://fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20450

John.

It was a birdstrike during what looks like a level pass along the runway. Picture isn’t the best, but the speed on the HUD (top left) looks like 250Kt initially. Trading this speed for height (by pulling the nose up) would be a fairly standard manouevre in something sharp and pointy like this. I think it was a Hawk (the aircraft, not the bird!!)

I wondered from the accents if it was a T-45 -but Hawk type seems right with at least one bird being swallowed (! ) down the left intake.

It was a birdstrike during what looks like a level pass along the runway. Picture isn’t the best, but the speed on the HUD (top left) looks like 250Kt initially. Trading this speed for height (by pulling the nose up) would be a fairly standard manouevre in something sharp and pointy like this. I think it was a Hawk (the aircraft, not the bird!!)

Looks like a birdstrike.

You can actually see the bird coming in fast(!), and dissappering to the left of the cockpit..

With a bird approaching nearly head-on, it is instinctive for a fast-jet pilot to pull up and indeed hunch for an instant in case it comes through the canopy(Indeed this was commonly taught.) The birdstrike(s) than probably took the engine out. Next it looks like them converting excess speed to height whilst assessing the situation at hand and whilst heading for a safe area.
Then after attempted hot relight(s)……

Difficult to tell exactly what the outcome was here. If, as seems to be the case, there was an Engine Failure After Take Off, one has to wonder why the pilot first raised the nose much higher, then began a turn back towards the runway, both maneouvres which could well have induced a stall.