Reply With QuoteI believe it should, cannot imagine small print in the nature of exactly how you ejected. Bet he won’t be going in another!
Man, 64, accidentally ejects himself from fighter jet at 2,500ft during surprise flight http://news.sky.com/story/man-64-acc...light-11973070
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I believe it should, cannot imagine small print in the nature of exactly how you ejected. Bet he won’t be going in another!
I feel sorry for his wife.............he's obviously a premature ejaculator.
I't wouldn't surprise me if he was wearing a FULL Gold ROLEX at the time
Last edited by catflem; 14th April 2020 at 16:54.
he should have been briefed pre flight,still hard to see how you do that by accident.
He should buy an Air King!
I think this incident is worthy of a separate version by Bremont, made especially for inadvertent ejectors like this guy - a MB Version 2 if you like. They could include a scrap of his ... er.... tested underwear fabric in the rotor.
Last edited by Argon; 14th April 2020 at 17:14.
The 'Bremont Early Ejector' perhaps. With large numerals and hands for the feeble sighted.
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
"This situation generated a feeling of stress for the passenger, and this was felt especially during the ejector seat briefing where he had to assimilate a large amount of information in a very short time," the report stated.
Like "don't pull this unless you want to be a firework!"
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
Poor chap, but glad he was ok. Certainly a memorable flight for him, albeit for the wrong reasons.
I might be wrong, but I don’t think you even qualify for a MB Ejection Club tie for accidental ejections.
Bremont's website states 'The limited edition MBI remains solely for pilots who have ejected from an aircraft using a Martin-Baker seat', he wasn't a pilot but the Dassualt Rafale fast jet does use the MK16 MB ejector seat.
Close but no cigar I suppose!
That comment is navigatorist!Originally Posted by Thewatchbloke
I don't know about the MB club, but to join the caterpillar club your life has to have been saved by an Irvin parachute, not just have used one.
I'm thinking that it qualifies him for a certain kind of butt plug.
Wow, someone failed to deliver the pre-flight brief.
Always struck me as odd, having put hundreds of these in and out of aircraft, the watch and in fact all the rewards should really go to the armourers for firstly building and then fitting the seat properly along with the squippers for folding the bed sheet correctly. Instead, it was usually just a case of beer.
Armourer here too - maybe we know each other? Have you seen the report? Apparently the CEC failed which prevented the pilot also leaving the aircraft!
€EUR75m of aircraft saved right there.
It's somewhat ironic that it was actually a fault that stopped the plane from crashing: a refreshing and fortuitous change.
The ejector seat handle would've made a great souvenir for the passenger.
R
Ignorance breeds Fear. Fear breeds Hatred. Hatred breeds Ignorance. Break the chain.
How lucky was the pilot? He was not fired out as well due to a fault which as a consequence prevented the loss of the aircraft!
Stressed or not, the passenger should have declined the flight opportunity if his discomfort level was that high and that alone warrants a thundering kick up his arse for that poor decision and the stupidity of his subsequent actions. Yes I know people do irrational things when they panic but this guy takes the biscuit and I hope in future he is never allowed within a mile of a military aircraft without his hands stitched to his ears!
Well done to the pilot for his professionalism in getting his aircraft down safely.
Last edited by KavKav; 15th April 2020 at 09:12.
I don't think it was all the passengers fault, peer pressure can be an awful thing. I think his mates who organised it shoulder some of the blame, the link below explains the sequence of events a bit more clearly.
https://www.aerotime.aero/clement.ch...ction-incident
This is not a trivial incident and it should not be seen as the fault of the pax. Well, nowhere near entirely the pax’ fault. This is the Swiss cheese model of air safety in a nice little package. Luckily, the holes that would have destroyed a nearly new aircraft and potentially innocents on the ground (including those dealing with a live and partially activated seat) did not align.
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Civilian testing aircraft safety?
BTW, pax fault, what’s this?
= passenger's fault
pax (plural pax)
- (informal, usually in the plural) A passenger; passengers.
Usually is.
Ok, thought perhaps play on 'faux pax'.
Someone who claims to be passenger but isn't?
Is that a Tim Brooke-Taylor reference?
In the Sotadic Zone, apparently.
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