F-16 Hits Trees. F-15 worlds record G

I would like some help. And have some videos clips for your enjoyment.

1: I am hoping that someone can tell me what engine is in the F-16 in the video I posted at the time of this mishap. It is either General Electric or Pratt & Whitney.

2: I am hoping that someone can come up with some video or photos of the walk around inspection/documentation (showing the crinkling) after the F-15 had its spatial disorientation / high G incident. Also if anyone knows if there is any public documentation on how many G this aircraft pulled.

Any additional info would be appreciated. I hope to be able to add to the videos to better document the incidences. If anyone has any information, photos or video; please post a reply or leave me a personal message at YouTube.

Both incidences I am talking about happened about 2 decades ago

Here are the videos and a short description of the two instances I am talking about.

F-16 Hits Trees At Ridgeline. With after mishap photos

I dubbed out the audio in the first part of the video for the pilots privacy and I dubbed out the audio in the first part of the video for the pilots privacy and out of respect. He gave a very good/magnanimous/honest critique of his flight. He did not fully understand the ground warning system (he misunderstood), he also forgot to reset the altitude on the warning system.

The fact that F-16 survived is a testament to General Dynamics. Since this is only a single-engine fighter fact the engine was able to run and run long enough after ingesting parts of the tree to get the plane back safely is a credit to the engine manufacturer. I am not sure which engine this aircraft had at the time, General Electric or Pratt & Whitney. They are all excellent manufacturers.

Note: Every time his collision warning came on he was less then 50 feet off the ground; trees are not normally detected as ground that is part of the reason for the mishap. A lot of trees are higher then 50 feet.

Don’t be fooled by the funny filler music, I love this plane.

You might have seen part of this clip before, but I doubt the GP has seen all this before.

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F-15 Eagle Spatial (Spacial) Disorientation: World Record G
The next short clip shows the cockpit/HUD view From an F-15 that the pilot became spatially disoriented. If I remember correctly it was broad daylight in clear visibility, a mitigating factor is the color of the sky and seas that day were very similar.

The fact the F-15 held together and was able to land safely is a testament of its durability. I can’t remember exactly but it sustained like 15-20 Gs for about 2-3 seconds. For a fraction of a second it pulled something like 30-40 Gs. It held together but the wing skin had crinkled (technical term j/k) because the airframe was bent so badly. Unfortunately I have no external views. It pulled so many Gs that the tape pulled off the recorder head and lost sync for a bit, so the tape misses the highest G.

As far as I know it was the most Gs a piloted aircraft ever pulled and was able to return safely (though the plane was badly damaged).

Famous Quote “Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous, but to an even greater than the sea; it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity, or neglect”
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In my opinion they both are hard-core killer videos, to my knowledge this is the debut to the GP.

Many of my other videos have segments that are also debut to the GP.
To see more of my videos

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I see from registration and some old posts that someone either coincidentally was using the same/similar handle to me or perhaps they were deliberately impersonating me. I thought maybe I posted here before and forgot about it, but I do not have a previous password for this site on my password list so I doubt it was I. In addition, alleged the quotations that are still left on this message board do not use the language I use, and much of the content I disagree with.

I am ATFS_Crash here, ATFSCrash at YouTube. The person that posted here as ATFscrash seems to have been someone else.