Today , at Terracina air show , Italian Air Force Eurofighters crash in to the sea.
The pilot not eject.

Pilot dead.
RIP

http://video.corriere.it/eurofighter-pr ... ed55d84d04

Giorgio

Hmmm. When an air show is the scene I immediately wonder if GLOC is the issue.

Or over water maneuvering where judging your height above the surface can be very challenging.

RIP to the pilot. He took an awful lot of energy to the water.

G-lock is the most credited theory, although there is still nothing official.
Cieli Blu, Capitano

Giorgio

Yeah, although it is was my first thought I am wary of assuming that is the cause.

I remember the old days were the men could take more G than the machine so of course we never got this possible cause.

If it was a g-loc, he must have re-gained knowledge just before the impact.
In this video you can see the A/B switched-on, just before the crash.



Giorgio

Eurofighters crash have this serial number: M.M.7278.
Depart from Pratica di Mare LIRE, 311 Group RSV.

I think he was out all the way down, the burners seem to be on from the top of the loop because its carrying an awful lot of speed and inertia for a typical loop and a video from the side view shows similar that the second half of the loop doesnt follow the trajectory that the first half did

I hope even though it sounds bad that he never knew anything and his last memories were of how good his display was going.....RIP mt friend

I think that it is natural to speculate about a subject that we all have an interest in but I feel that maybe we have reached a break point.

The reason I say this is because whilst we allow and even encourage debate on this forum I would not like to see one fully develop over the death of an aviator.

Please note here that I do not think that anybody has said anything wrong or even close to it. I say this purely to avoid the fact that a human being lost his life and this should not get forgotten in conversation. I hope that people don't feel that my thought is stifling their right to speak.

Guessing the Typhoon does not have any sort of ground collision avoidance system??

I am almost positive that I read some time that it does have something but how automatic it is and how much it relies on the pilot to activate it I am not sure.

Great pic and RIP sir! I did have a earlier reply, but as Steve suggested I pulled it. I do agree having spent most of my USN career flying overwater, it is very difficult to judge height on a bright VFR day. Also, with GPWS in modern fighters, there are still CFIT accidents. I recently re-read the 2013 F-16 crash in Bagram, AFG.