Example "A" - Iranian fighter pilots on how NOT to exit your plane. And the world wants to put faith in electronics huh?

[TheGLOV]

Two Iranian fighter jet pilots are killed before take-off.​

Two Iranian fighter jet pilots are killed before take-off

State broadcaster IRIB reported the F-5 fighter jet had a 'technical problem' that killed both the pilots, who were identified as Kianoush Basati and Hossein Nami, without providing their rank.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[RickinDayton]

Two Iranian fighter jet pilots are killed before take-off.​

Two Iranian fighter jet pilots are killed before take-off

State broadcaster IRIB reported the F-5 fighter jet had a 'technical problem' that killed both the pilots, who were identified as Kianoush Basati and Hossein Nami, without providing their rank.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Causes me to recall an incident @ a base where I was stationed back in the 80s. A maintenance Airman was working on a fighter jet and failed to properly "safe" the ejection seat. It activated while he was leaning over the cockpit, blew him into the air and fell back down on the tarmac, killing him. Sad day on our base.

 

[Lion84]

Cant believe they still have F-5's that can fly weren't they first built in the 50's?

 

[Art]

Cant believe they still have F-5's that can fly weren't they first built in the 50's?

Quite a few countries have F-5s still in service. The Iranians have even built their own variants.

 

[PSU Mike]

Cant believe they still have F-5's that can fly weren't they first built in the 50's?

The B-52’s are saying hold my beer...

 

[Aardvark86]

This really needs video. I know we have rules about flags in other contexts - can we implement one here?

 

[Obliviax]

video was just released:

 

[Aardvark86]

video was just released:

Or this was always a classic...

 

[tlbakernc]

Ah, that’s a shame.

 

[strongarm00]

Causes me to recall an incident @ a base where I was stationed back in the 80s. A maintenance Airman was working on a fighter jet and failed to properly "safe" the ejection seat. It activated while he was leaning over the cockpit, blew him into the air and fell back down on the tarmac, killing him. Sad day on our base.

There was a similar incident at the naval air station I was stationed at in the 90’s. One airman was killed and the second was seriously injured.

 

[nitlion93]

Quite a few countries have F-5s still in service. The Iranians have even built their own variants.

The USN still utilizes F-5s. In fact, they recently got an ejection seat upgrade but don’t think it was related to the issue the Iranians experienced.

 

[TheGLOV]

Ah, that’s a shame.

Like a bug on the windshield they were!

 

[RickinDayton]

There was a similar incident at the naval air station I was stationed at in the 90’s. One airman was killed and the second was seriously injured.

So very sad.

 

[PrtLng Lion]

I feel sorry for the pilots' families, not so for the Iranian military and regime.