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F-18 crashes at Air Show in Canada

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F-18 Crashes pilot ejects and is ok.

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Looks like he ejected just in the barest nick of time. Another 1/2 second delay and he'd be toast.
 
He did...close one. FWIW it wasn't during an airshow but rather a practice for an airshow this weekend.

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aerog said:
FWIW it wasn't during an airshow but rather a practice for an airshow this weekend.
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That's right, thanks for the clarification.
 
Scratch one more Hornet. Ouch.

That is a really good demo of the zero-zero seat. :laugh:
 
This happened only a couple of hours south of me... And it was during practice as Nial said

From what I heard they didn't cancel any of the air show, and that even the rest of the CF-18's were still going to perform...
 
Fireballs that were flying put a chill in my bones. Largest I ever saw was a 52 that ran off the end of the strip at Da Nang. We were about 3 miles away from the end of the runway but that was a fireball that I can still recall in vivid memory....
 
It really reminded me of the MiG-29 crash at the Paris Airshow about 10+ years ago.
Looked like similar maneuver (low speed-nose up).
Pilot also ejected "last minute".
I saw the pilot interviewed later and they asked why he didn't bail out sooner. He said (in Russian), "First I had to make sure I steered the plane away from any civilians". Cool cat!

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yup.
 
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