6 May 2012:
J-11BS.
Lan Zhou AF, PLAAF.
In the morning, at 4,700 m, rear canopy shattered, and wounded co-pilot.
Emergency landed.
Pilot (student) was ZHU Zhen Hua.
Co-pilot (instructor) was ZHANG Jian Xing, with 2,300+ hours.
8:21 AM, took off, for training.
8:55:01 AM, Zhang was instructing Zhu for a second dive and climb, when rear canopy shattered, wounded Zhang’s head, and air flow ripped off his oxygen mask.
Air flow also shook Zhu, who had just one sortie for over an hour as pilot with this fighter type.
8:55:28 AM, Zhu declared emergency, and attempted to stabilise the diving fighter.
The fighter climbed to 5,000 m soon.
Blood on Zhang’s eyes and visor partly blinded him.
Zhang lowered his seat, and saw the fighter had dived from 6,000 m to 2,000 m.
8:58:25 AM, fighter warned about extreme AOA and overload.
Zhang pulled back the stick, and throttled down.
Zhu collaborated, and the fighter levelled at 1,900 m.
Radio was damaged, and pilots couldn’t contact ground controller.
Zhang’s mouth was wounded, and couldn’t talk with Zhu.
Zhu looked back, saw the blood on Zhang, didn’t know how wounded was Zhang, but Zhu felt through the stick that Zhang was awake and controlling the fighter.
8:59 AM, they stabilised the fighter.
9:03 AM, they struggled, and adjusted to RTB mode.
9:12:47 AM, they got into the landing course.
9:16 AM, emergency landed.
http://club.mil.news.sina.com.cn/thread-487197-1-1.html
http://jlwb.njnews.cn/html/2012-05/16/content_1243905.htm
http://mil.news.sina.com.cn/2012-05-15/0353690531.html
http://mil.news.sohu.com/20120515/n343192412_1.shtml
http://slide.mil.news.sina.com.cn/slide_8_193_15136.html
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