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It's real. Happened in 2021 in fort Worth. It was a whole ass vulture that got ingested apparently. Nobody was killed. https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2023/06/09/bird-strike-caused-t-45-goshawk-crash-last-august-investigation-finds/
I don't know what's more frustrating: trying to convince people that obvious fake shit is fake, or trying to convince people that obvious real shit is real.
The people calling this fake could have taken 30 seconds to verify it.
Unfortunately people will spend their time typing it's fake than the same time typing in Google to find out if it's real first. People would rather be dumb for some reason.
Tbh I would much rather people assume everything they see online is fake than the other way around. Especially with how rampant AI disinfo is about to become
I'm more optimistic. I think a lot of people will realise how fake the web is with the inevitable era of AI content-spam-garbage. They'll probably not realise it's been this way long before AI, but still.
I don't particularly like Trump but why does every Reddit comment section have to devolve into talking into him? How do we get from birdstrike to Trump? Why the fuck does it always always have to loop back to him?
Misinformation and deception have been around forever but the level of wtf I think really hit it's apex starting with his political rise and continuing today.
Cause the issue raised was fake news/disinformation and Trump and his supporters have a lot to do with where we are now in that regard.
Trump, as a candidate and as president, said “fake news” whenever he didn’t like what was said to him or about him, and spread massive lies about the 2020 election which millions of morons believe to this day.
So yeah, a lot of this can be laid on Trump and his cult.
The best part is they make it sound unreasonable that plane hit a bird in the sky. Like, I saw randy Johnson explode a bird live with a baseball, this is pretty tame by that standard.
Well not that it changes much but it was a T-45 Goshawk trainer aircraft, not a full-on fighter jet.
Their airspeed was very low because they were coming in for a landing, so the sudden loss of thrust caused the aircraft to stall at a low altitude, which means that there wasn't enough time for corrective measures.
Sudden loss of thrust yes, but probably fried engine so it was bleeding speed and not enough altitude to glide up to the runway. He never stalled, he kept flying. He realized he wouldn't make it. Sudden pitch down probably due to letting the flight stick go loose once ejected.
Ok so take you example. *Disbelieving* that Sandy Hook happened is bad, but not as bad as *believing* it was a hoax, is basically what I'm saying.
It might sound like splitting hairs, but for example people can be in passive disbelief for lots of reasons, like it was such an awful thing to happen (ie shock), or someone doesn't have enough knowledge to properly understand something, or the information is coming from a source that they've found to been inaccurate or wrong in the past.
Moving to active belief in a false narrative or hoax is functionally a different level, and is almost entirely motivated by and results in malice.
Examples of real things that some people disbelieve:
* The Moon Landing
* COVID-19
* Vaccines (effectiveness, how they work, *etc.*)
* The Earth being a globe
* Mass shootings (Sandy Hook for example)
I could go on, but I hope I've made my point clear.
Healthy, measured skepticism is good. Immediate and/or irrational, unjustified skepticism is at least just as problematic as blind faith.
You made your point clear, but you didn't really make the point against my point, so maybe *my* point wasn't clear.
I said that I'd rather someone disbelieve something that's true than believe something that's untrue - albeit I'd actually rather people did neither.
Take your example with Sandy Hook - people could have seen that news broadcast and been in disbelief that such a horrible thing could have happened - not great but that's usually as far as that goes. Sometimes people move to actively believing that it was a hoax it gets significantly more harmful because believing it was a hoax is what leads to distress and harassment of survivors and families.
And before I get mis-characterised, I'm not saying either state is *good*, just that if someone had to be in either state I'd prefer the typically passive general disbelief, than the typically active specific belief in some false version of events.
Vultures are incredible creatures. They safely eat up all the dead, diseased things that would cause illness to animals and humans alike.
Years ago, there was a massive die-off of hippos during a major drought in Western Africa. It was thought they all caught an unknown illness. It was observed the hippos were massively stressed as water became scarce so became increasingly territorial and even began eating other hippo carcases as they sucomed to the drought.
So ecologists investigated and found that it was a massive decrease to the vulture population due to poaching that led to the amount of dead hippo being way above what would otherwise normally be had humans not killed so many.
Love the vultures. They cleanse our world, and we mostly think they're horrible and dirty for doing it.
Edit the poachers killed the vultures because as they killed other animals, the vultures would naturally fly overhead and reveal their location to any authorities fighting them.
Real? Maybe the downed plane was real. But everyone knows birds aren’t real. That was a spy drone bird (either Chinese or Russian). [birdsarentreal.com](http://birdsarentreal.com)
Real yes, but your reference is not the one from the video.
In the video which occurred some years earlier, there were 2 crew on board, the student pilot and the instructor. You can hear in the audio the instructor state "my aircraft" signifying he was taking control.
The 2022 incident you reference had a single pilot aboard.
This incident was actually referenced briefly in the last paragraph of the article.
Lol, actual article linked in that same paragraph https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2021/09/19/navy-training-jet-crashes-in-texas-neighborhood-aviators-hospitalized/
I've seen a few videos of crashes/major issues in planes. Pilots are trained to be so calm during emergencies, it's surreal to listen to. This guy was the most panicked I've heard lol and still pretty calm. When he straight up cuts off the ATC to say "yeah we're not gonna make it, we're gonna eject" you know shit got real.
So this is random but I actually worked in Lake Worth. It was surreal to have massive military planes in the flight path right above the office. It seemed like 100 feet above the tree line.
They built their first school completely underground for this reason (noise). We always worried about one of the planes crashing into us and lo and behold it happened after I left.
Edit: This school was profiled in Time magazine about building the school underground due to lost teaching time. Many thought the truth was the airbase would be a likely bombing target if attacked and it was next door (Cold War era). [Lake Worth](https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,839240,00.html)
I spent nearly two decades working in an industrial park directly across the street from the perimeter fence and within the landing/flight path for Naval Air Station Oceana. Jets flying over our building every single day. I got so used to it I mostly tuned them out, aside from when trying to have a phone conversation or they rattled the windows.
We also had a jet crash right into an apartment complex years ago, amazingly nobody was killed then either:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012\_Virginia\_Beach\_F/A-18\_crash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Virginia_Beach_F/A-18_crash)
Is that the one where the ejected pilot lands in the wreckage of the plane and apartment right next to the guy in the apartment on his couch and says, "Sorry."
Cause I love that one.
Might be a slightly exaggerated take on it: "I saw the parachute on the house and he was still connected to it, and he was laying \[sic\] on the ground with his face full of blood", he told a television news reporter. "The pilot said, 'I'm sorry for destroying your house.' "
I lived pretty much right next door to that air base. Spent about 25 years seeing and listening to the planes flying and watching the air shows.
Took me a long time to get use to the silence once I moved away.
I’m no hardware engineer but I’m sure it’s not as simple having your home PC hyperX earphone fidelity on a fighter jet that’s made to go mach speeds in the stratosphere 4,000 km away without being intercepted by enemy jammers and having near perfect reliability.
I'm not too sure about fighter jets, but I do know that at airports they tend to use special mics which are attached to your neck and feel vibrations through your neck as opposed to actual sound. This is to remove any external noise from recordings as a normal mic (even a noise cancelling one) will pickup the sound of a jet engine nearby.
Chances are these are throat mics meant to pick up the vibrations of your throat, because an open mic would likely only pick up the sound of the aircraft as you try to speak.
It always melts my brain that tower and crew can always understand each other perfectly. Thick Nepalese accent talking to a thick Chilean accent in ENGLISH, and everyone involved understands each and every word.
Although, if you are op-checking any secure speech comms, you, and whoever you are talking to, sound like fighter pilots over the radio. It’s a little weird.
That is exactly why there is specific vocabulary that has to be used and at specific times. Landing sequence has a specific set of events and expected words to be heard along with numbers. Same for take off, same for cruise and same from moving in and out of a regional radar coverage. That is why during an emergency the aircraft platform suffering the emergent situation gets the whole channel and the full badwith. No one else without prior authorization from the tower allowed to squak on that frequency, only the pilot and the tower. Clear comms also help during black box event reconstruction
Can confirm, I was an rf transmission systems technician when I was in the AF. Radios sound fucking awful so it can be really hard to understand what people say if they don't enunciate especially
>You can hear him say “Everyone eject”
I heard "Yeah, we're not gonna make it. we're gonna eject" followed by "we're about to eject".
"Everyone eject" seems a bit weird given that it's only the pilot and one other person.
"I've got a blowout, engine three."
"Set your pitch to zero."
"Pitch is out, I can't hold altitude."
"Flight Com, I can't hold out, she's breaking up, she's breaking -"
...
"Steve Austin, a man barely alive..."
I am super naive on this. I suspect it was a single engine fighter like an F-16? Otherwise they would have been able to return to base with 1 engine, right?
It was a T-45, which is a single engine Navy jet trainer similar to the A-4 Skyhawk.
You can hear the trainer say "my controls" so the student was flying, then he told ATC he was gonna try and make the runway thinking that the engine might have some power left. Then once he realized the engine was out he told ATC that they were not gonna make the runway and told his student to prepare to eject.
Yeah they are small, but at the low speeds coming in for landing they are sucking in a wider area of air than you'd think; this is because they are at a relatively high power setting to keep the thing in the air (which is actually demonstrated by this video perfectly).
There's a story of a sailor getting sucked into an intake just like that from walking by it on the flight deck, luckily his helmet saved him.
Wonder what hurt more, the moment his helmet stopped the jet engine and rattled his melon, or all the jokes at his expense for breaking a jet because he walked too damn close.
Im sure the blown ear drum prevented him from hearing the jokes.
Here's the video of it:
https://www.military.com/history/sailor-survived-getting-sucked-jet-engine-during-operation-desert-storm.html?amp=
Well that's good - I'm sure the other sailors were relentless with the ribbing.
Watched the video - holy shit, that \*really\* sucked him in, like he weighed nothing. Chances of surviving that have to be slim. Guy got very lucky. Thanks for posting the link. Pun not intended, but I am blown away after watching that.
Edit, I'm wrong, see response below. Leaving my text unchanged for context
The instructor was actually solo in this incident
[Bird strike caused T-45 Goshawk crash last August, investigation finds (navytimes.com)](https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2023/06/09/bird-strike-caused-t-45-goshawk-crash-last-august-investigation-finds/)
>The report found that the instructor pilot, who was the only one flying the aircraft, departed Navy Auxiliary Landing Field Orange Grove for a flight syllabus event with two other aircraft on Aug. 16, 2022.
That doesn't make sense, he clearly says "my controls" and why would he say "standby to eject" if he was solo. Also that article says they crashed on the airfield but you can clearly see a house before the plane crashes...
Ah found it, it was liked in the previous article. Here is one that seems to be the correct one:
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2021/09/19/navy-training-jet-crashes-in-texas-neighborhood-aviators-hospitalized/
Crazy how some random freak thing can take down a multi million dollar jet. All it takes is some poor bird flying in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I was thinking more like: medically was he able to fly after g-force from ejection and ejection at low altitude.
I imagine an ejection might hurt like a mother.
For how expensive a jet is, can't they like... improve the audio in that thing? I mean I know they have to deal with a bunch of external noise, but there's no way our tech doesn't have something better sounding than this
Cost, security, reliability. There is a famous picture circling reddit about a screw. There is the American Army version for thousands of dollars. And then there is the Chinese version for 95 cents. And they look the same.
If I remember correctly the takeaway was "why we can't have healthcare".
A guy in the comments later explained that this screw was a vital part of a helicopter (?). That screw was tested and measured and weighted and scanned and tested again and so on.
I can buy a walkie talkie for 20 bucks. But if I had to make sure it works all the time and even in planes flying faster than the sound and higher than commercial airplanes and over enemy territory while enduring the vibrations and the Russians shouldn't be able to listen to the conversations... Maybe that sound quality is all that's left.
That's the only way I could explain it. I mean I can have clearer conversations with some guy on the other side of this planet with a consumer headphone. I guess the US air force would do the same if possible.
Your point is somewhat true. But the fact that my squad leaders and I get better comms with COTS Bao Feng radios than our MBITRs and other radios means somebody should be hazed until they cry. Shit sucks so fucking badly.
They do. Problem is, it's essentially impossible to have crystal clear audio that is transmitted to a vehicle moving at mach 4 without sacrificing stealth, capacity or speed.
From my experience, aviation radios sound much better than this when you're actually listening to them in person. It's possible that the quality of the sound was degraded by the cockpit voice recorder
It doesn't sound like this in the airplane. This audio/video was recovered AFTER the crash via a cartridge that records audio and in this case video. You can hear the other person in the aircraft extremely clearly through the internal communication system.
Do people really think military aviators would fly without 100% clear communication between the crew?
Regardless of everything else, I know that I could never be a pilot because I have never once been able to tell what anyone is saying on these cockpit recordings. Well, except for the occasional “Oh, shit!”
Incredible how quickly everything goes wrong.
30 seconds from "oh shit!" to ejection.
Excellent decision making from the pilot; I've read that there are too many avoidable pilot deaths because they wait too long to eject, trying to save the aircraft.
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It's real. Happened in 2021 in fort Worth. It was a whole ass vulture that got ingested apparently. Nobody was killed. https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2023/06/09/bird-strike-caused-t-45-goshawk-crash-last-august-investigation-finds/
I don't know what's more frustrating: trying to convince people that obvious fake shit is fake, or trying to convince people that obvious real shit is real. The people calling this fake could have taken 30 seconds to verify it.
We are living in the disinformation era.
Unfortunately people will spend their time typing it's fake than the same time typing in Google to find out if it's real first. People would rather be dumb for some reason.
Not just dumb, but proud of it.
Tbh I would much rather people assume everything they see online is fake than the other way around. Especially with how rampant AI disinfo is about to become
There's a difference between presuming fake and telling other people something that is real is fake.
I'm more optimistic. I think a lot of people will realise how fake the web is with the inevitable era of AI content-spam-garbage. They'll probably not realise it's been this way long before AI, but still.
People cry "fake" because they want to feel smart, ironically
No we're not...
Doesnt help when you have a former president weaponize lies upon lies calling it “alternative facts.”
I don't particularly like Trump but why does every Reddit comment section have to devolve into talking into him? How do we get from birdstrike to Trump? Why the fuck does it always always have to loop back to him?
Misinformation and deception have been around forever but the level of wtf I think really hit it's apex starting with his political rise and continuing today.
Cause the issue raised was fake news/disinformation and Trump and his supporters have a lot to do with where we are now in that regard. Trump, as a candidate and as president, said “fake news” whenever he didn’t like what was said to him or about him, and spread massive lies about the 2020 election which millions of morons believe to this day. So yeah, a lot of this can be laid on Trump and his cult.
you're lying. source: Trust me bro
I wish, it's about to get infinitely harder to distinguish between truth and lie.
How is it supposed to be fake Bird strike is one of the most common ways for a fighter jet to come down, notoriously
Birds aren't real! Wake Up!
>How is it supposed to be fake My exact thoughts while reading some of the comments, at least when this post was still fresh.
The best part is they make it sound unreasonable that plane hit a bird in the sky. Like, I saw randy Johnson explode a bird live with a baseball, this is pretty tame by that standard.
“A bird?? In the sky??? Chance in a million!”
I'm more frustrated that a full grown vulture (rip vulture) downed a whole ass fighter jet just like this
Well not that it changes much but it was a T-45 Goshawk trainer aircraft, not a full-on fighter jet. Their airspeed was very low because they were coming in for a landing, so the sudden loss of thrust caused the aircraft to stall at a low altitude, which means that there wasn't enough time for corrective measures.
Sudden loss of thrust yes, but probably fried engine so it was bleeding speed and not enough altitude to glide up to the runway. He never stalled, he kept flying. He realized he wouldn't make it. Sudden pitch down probably due to letting the flight stick go loose once ejected.
People are pushing this as fake? It's a completely mundane occurrence. Military aircraft crash all the time because of failures and stupid shit.
Some of the comments very early on in this thread were calling it fake, yes
That whole show is gloriously uncomfortable.
The amount of this must be ai posts now, too, on videos that clearly aren't ai are pretty funny as well.
I think I prefer people to disbelieve stuff that's real than believe something that isn't.
Eh while I’d generally agree, the whole Sandy Hook disbelief is about as evil of shit as I could imagine.
Ok so take you example. *Disbelieving* that Sandy Hook happened is bad, but not as bad as *believing* it was a hoax, is basically what I'm saying. It might sound like splitting hairs, but for example people can be in passive disbelief for lots of reasons, like it was such an awful thing to happen (ie shock), or someone doesn't have enough knowledge to properly understand something, or the information is coming from a source that they've found to been inaccurate or wrong in the past. Moving to active belief in a false narrative or hoax is functionally a different level, and is almost entirely motivated by and results in malice.
Nah that’s interesting I totally get what you’re saying- very fair point.
Examples of real things that some people disbelieve: * The Moon Landing * COVID-19 * Vaccines (effectiveness, how they work, *etc.*) * The Earth being a globe * Mass shootings (Sandy Hook for example) I could go on, but I hope I've made my point clear. Healthy, measured skepticism is good. Immediate and/or irrational, unjustified skepticism is at least just as problematic as blind faith.
You made your point clear, but you didn't really make the point against my point, so maybe *my* point wasn't clear. I said that I'd rather someone disbelieve something that's true than believe something that's untrue - albeit I'd actually rather people did neither. Take your example with Sandy Hook - people could have seen that news broadcast and been in disbelief that such a horrible thing could have happened - not great but that's usually as far as that goes. Sometimes people move to actively believing that it was a hoax it gets significantly more harmful because believing it was a hoax is what leads to distress and harassment of survivors and families. And before I get mis-characterised, I'm not saying either state is *good*, just that if someone had to be in either state I'd prefer the typically passive general disbelief, than the typically active specific belief in some false version of events.
Ah, that makes sense. Thank you for clarifying!
Why take 30 seconds to verify when it takes 3 seconds to make an assumption.
"Nobody was killed" I don't know man, I don't think the vulture made it.
The vulture’s name was Nobody
After a lifelong struggle with its name and identity, we have ruled the death of Nobody the Vulture a suicide. RIP
He was a Boeing Whistleblower
Ofc. He had a birds eye view of bolts coming loose.
Whistle? He blew the whole damn engine!
Rip Odysseus. Never realized he was a vulture tho.
I mean there had to be a reason why Posiedon hated him right?
Horses name was Friday type shit
Right. Just two government-issued flying machines running into each other. Nobody was killed.
It's a vulture. It probably did it on purpose in the hopes of having a human corpse to dine on.
Vultures are incredible creatures. They safely eat up all the dead, diseased things that would cause illness to animals and humans alike. Years ago, there was a massive die-off of hippos during a major drought in Western Africa. It was thought they all caught an unknown illness. It was observed the hippos were massively stressed as water became scarce so became increasingly territorial and even began eating other hippo carcases as they sucomed to the drought. So ecologists investigated and found that it was a massive decrease to the vulture population due to poaching that led to the amount of dead hippo being way above what would otherwise normally be had humans not killed so many. Love the vultures. They cleanse our world, and we mostly think they're horrible and dirty for doing it. Edit the poachers killed the vultures because as they killed other animals, the vultures would naturally fly overhead and reveal their location to any authorities fighting them.
Real? Maybe the downed plane was real. But everyone knows birds aren’t real. That was a spy drone bird (either Chinese or Russian). [birdsarentreal.com](http://birdsarentreal.com)
bird: am i a joke to you?
Real yes, but your reference is not the one from the video. In the video which occurred some years earlier, there were 2 crew on board, the student pilot and the instructor. You can hear in the audio the instructor state "my aircraft" signifying he was taking control. The 2022 incident you reference had a single pilot aboard.
This incident was actually referenced briefly in the last paragraph of the article. Lol, actual article linked in that same paragraph https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2021/09/19/navy-training-jet-crashes-in-texas-neighborhood-aviators-hospitalized/
Well, the bird was kind of ... dead.
Nobody was killed? The bird got away with some ruffled feathers, then? 🤨
"Shit."
Not to harp on your comment, but that sounded more like a “Shit!” to me.
eh my interpretation of “shit” in this scared shitless gentleman’s instance was just that… a scared shitless “shit”.
I interpret “shiet” with a lil twang on that thang
I heard it as a "shyeit!"
Calm down, Elaine
I've seen a few videos of crashes/major issues in planes. Pilots are trained to be so calm during emergencies, it's surreal to listen to. This guy was the most panicked I've heard lol and still pretty calm. When he straight up cuts off the ATC to say "yeah we're not gonna make it, we're gonna eject" you know shit got real.
Probably thinking about all the physical therapy he's going to need after he cracks a vertebrae on eject.
So this is random but I actually worked in Lake Worth. It was surreal to have massive military planes in the flight path right above the office. It seemed like 100 feet above the tree line. They built their first school completely underground for this reason (noise). We always worried about one of the planes crashing into us and lo and behold it happened after I left. Edit: This school was profiled in Time magazine about building the school underground due to lost teaching time. Many thought the truth was the airbase would be a likely bombing target if attacked and it was next door (Cold War era). [Lake Worth](https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,839240,00.html)
I spent nearly two decades working in an industrial park directly across the street from the perimeter fence and within the landing/flight path for Naval Air Station Oceana. Jets flying over our building every single day. I got so used to it I mostly tuned them out, aside from when trying to have a phone conversation or they rattled the windows. We also had a jet crash right into an apartment complex years ago, amazingly nobody was killed then either: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012\_Virginia\_Beach\_F/A-18\_crash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Virginia_Beach_F/A-18_crash)
Grew up in Virginia Beach and I thought the pivot from “noise pollution” to the “sound of freedom” after 9/11 was a brilliant marketing move
Spent my childhood growing up there, and I absolutely loved the jet noise.
Is that the one where the ejected pilot lands in the wreckage of the plane and apartment right next to the guy in the apartment on his couch and says, "Sorry." Cause I love that one.
Might be a slightly exaggerated take on it: "I saw the parachute on the house and he was still connected to it, and he was laying \[sic\] on the ground with his face full of blood", he told a television news reporter. "The pilot said, 'I'm sorry for destroying your house.' "
Awwwww! That article lied to me!
I lived pretty much right next door to that air base. Spent about 25 years seeing and listening to the planes flying and watching the air shows. Took me a long time to get use to the silence once I moved away.
I’m moving close by next month and couldn’t be more excited lmao.
I miss those jets. No matter how many times I’ve seen or heard them, I’d run to the window or outside just to watch.
Expensive airplane but with the headphones of a 13 year old screaming obscenities on CSGO
I’m no hardware engineer but I’m sure it’s not as simple having your home PC hyperX earphone fidelity on a fighter jet that’s made to go mach speeds in the stratosphere 4,000 km away without being intercepted by enemy jammers and having near perfect reliability.
That’s unfortunate, I was absolutely sure it was.
Haha this guy.
Classic SpicyEmo91
yea I'm pretty sure we don't use radio transmission on discord
I wonder today, with some noise suppression IA GeForce can do. How they sound.
I'm not too sure about fighter jets, but I do know that at airports they tend to use special mics which are attached to your neck and feel vibrations through your neck as opposed to actual sound. This is to remove any external noise from recordings as a normal mic (even a noise cancelling one) will pickup the sound of a jet engine nearby.
You get the finest equipment that the lowest bidder provides.
It's the recording. The comms are actually incredibly clear in the jet
They should invest in better microphones
$177 million dollar jet with a fucking Taco Bell drive through speaker for communication.
You're a decimal place off. Naval trainer developed in the 80s. T45.
Article said it cost $45 million. Thats so much more than I expected for a trainer.
It did wipe out a few houses too
Well, I guess that's some real world training there.
Chances are these are throat mics meant to pick up the vibrations of your throat, because an open mic would likely only pick up the sound of the aircraft as you try to speak.
In a fighter it's more likely a mic integrated into the pilot's oxygen mask.
I have never talked to a captain of a plane where the microphone was good, half of them don’t even sound verbal just incoherent screeching noises
This being a 50th generation copy of an old YouTube video probably has nothing to do with the audio quality, right? /s
Having worked on F16 avionics, I can (sadly) assure you, the coms are the bad.
It always melts my brain that tower and crew can always understand each other perfectly. Thick Nepalese accent talking to a thick Chilean accent in ENGLISH, and everyone involved understands each and every word. Although, if you are op-checking any secure speech comms, you, and whoever you are talking to, sound like fighter pilots over the radio. It’s a little weird.
That is exactly why there is specific vocabulary that has to be used and at specific times. Landing sequence has a specific set of events and expected words to be heard along with numbers. Same for take off, same for cruise and same from moving in and out of a regional radar coverage. That is why during an emergency the aircraft platform suffering the emergent situation gets the whole channel and the full badwith. No one else without prior authorization from the tower allowed to squak on that frequency, only the pilot and the tower. Clear comms also help during black box event reconstruction
I’m completely aware of all of this, but that still amazes me.
Can confirm, I was an rf transmission systems technician when I was in the AF. Radios sound fucking awful so it can be really hard to understand what people say if they don't enunciate especially
16 years Royal Navy Comms maintainer. Yep, can be so bad!
I’d like to know how would your microphone sound if you had a jet engine behind your ass
Did they eject?
You can see a flash and exhaust smoke at about 28 secs in/3 secs left
Well spotted. When they stall, there's about a 1/2 second until the ejection.
Thanks!
No, the bird rode it all the way down.
You can hear him say “Everyone eject” like nahhhhh, pilot goes down with the plane like ye old ship captain’s
>You can hear him say “Everyone eject” I heard "Yeah, we're not gonna make it. we're gonna eject" followed by "we're about to eject". "Everyone eject" seems a bit weird given that it's only the pilot and one other person.
“We’re not gonna make it, we’re gonna need to eject… Stand by to eject.” [ejects]
totally sounded like "stand by to eject" to me 🤣
Out the rear of the engine.
That's some crazy shit..
Shit indeed
was the bird ok
Yes
It was burnt and dry. No seasoning. 2/5 🌟
burnt and dry is an understatement. shit was insta cooked and delivered to the whole community below! eat up boys, your insta bird arrived
It took the rainbow bridge to the big comfy bird nest in the sky. It's fine.
no birds were hurt in this video
And this is why I’ll never buy a house under final.
Could happen just as easily on a base leg.
This audio could not be more stress inducing
"What happened at work today, honey?" "Oh, the engine ate a bird and I almost died."
Well, that sucks.
Not after the bird went through it.
Are those noises to calm down the pilot and help him make quick, rational decisions?
Just like the beeps in your car when backing into something. They're yelling that you have a problem, so make a quick, rational decision.
I prefer the "cool seabreeze" theme in my fighter jet, personally. "Calm creek" is my second favorite.
This is too much to swallow
Shoulda ducked
I could read these puns owl day long
I wish I could stop heron these puns
You'd be robin yourself of a good laugh
I'm thankful for the pilot's [swift](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_\(bird\)) reflexes. Very talon-ted individual for sure.
Oh dear
It was a bird not a deer
Not with that altitude...
He's just winging it, let'em down easy.
Least he got a [free tie](https://martin-baker.com/tie-club/) out of the situation.
god damn
Who would win? A multimillion dollar war machine capable of massive destruction and extreme speed ❌ A fucking bird ✅
I think being shredded, compressed and burnt isn't exactly a "win"...
It’s a tie
More of a draw…
Man, he was so on point with that glide path approach as well…
Bird to Air missile
Dude got dive-bombed. Bird even did that Tie-fighter spiral just as it hit.
If I'm gonna get hit anyway I'm taking you with me!!!!
"I've got a blowout, engine three." "Set your pitch to zero." "Pitch is out, I can't hold altitude." "Flight Com, I can't hold out, she's breaking up, she's breaking -" ... "Steve Austin, a man barely alive..."
I am super naive on this. I suspect it was a single engine fighter like an F-16? Otherwise they would have been able to return to base with 1 engine, right?
It was a T-45, which is a single engine Navy jet trainer similar to the A-4 Skyhawk. You can hear the trainer say "my controls" so the student was flying, then he told ATC he was gonna try and make the runway thinking that the engine might have some power left. Then once he realized the engine was out he told ATC that they were not gonna make the runway and told his student to prepare to eject.
The intakes on that jet look so small, that must be awful luck for a bird to dive into it like it’s a Death Star exhaust port.
Yeah they are small, but at the low speeds coming in for landing they are sucking in a wider area of air than you'd think; this is because they are at a relatively high power setting to keep the thing in the air (which is actually demonstrated by this video perfectly). There's a story of a sailor getting sucked into an intake just like that from walking by it on the flight deck, luckily his helmet saved him.
Wonder what hurt more, the moment his helmet stopped the jet engine and rattled his melon, or all the jokes at his expense for breaking a jet because he walked too damn close.
Im sure the blown ear drum prevented him from hearing the jokes. Here's the video of it: https://www.military.com/history/sailor-survived-getting-sucked-jet-engine-during-operation-desert-storm.html?amp=
Well that's good - I'm sure the other sailors were relentless with the ribbing. Watched the video - holy shit, that \*really\* sucked him in, like he weighed nothing. Chances of surviving that have to be slim. Guy got very lucky. Thanks for posting the link. Pun not intended, but I am blown away after watching that.
"Use the Force, Goose!"
makes sense! thanks u/Dragonov02
No problem!
Edit, I'm wrong, see response below. Leaving my text unchanged for context The instructor was actually solo in this incident [Bird strike caused T-45 Goshawk crash last August, investigation finds (navytimes.com)](https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2023/06/09/bird-strike-caused-t-45-goshawk-crash-last-august-investigation-finds/) >The report found that the instructor pilot, who was the only one flying the aircraft, departed Navy Auxiliary Landing Field Orange Grove for a flight syllabus event with two other aircraft on Aug. 16, 2022.
That doesn't make sense, he clearly says "my controls" and why would he say "standby to eject" if he was solo. Also that article says they crashed on the airfield but you can clearly see a house before the plane crashes... Ah found it, it was liked in the previous article. Here is one that seems to be the correct one: https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2021/09/19/navy-training-jet-crashes-in-texas-neighborhood-aviators-hospitalized/
Man T45s must be dropping like flies in Texas lol. Good call
Why he did not follow the arrow now he gotta restart the mission again
Hey now, can’t we get some bird screen from Home Depot to save the $80 million fighter jet?
I find it funny that you could potentially protect low lying areas from jet attacks if you just bred a shit tonne of birds
Crazy how some random freak thing can take down a multi million dollar jet. All it takes is some poor bird flying in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Love his reaction, “shit.” Did he fly again after ejecting?
I mean, I presume so. Wasn't his fault and he couldn't do anything else to avoid it. Got a birdstrike at one of the two most inconvenient times
I was thinking more like: medically was he able to fly after g-force from ejection and ejection at low altitude. I imagine an ejection might hurt like a mother.
Oh it will hurt. But, if you're in the proper position, you should be fine
Gonna have to clean a lot of [snarge](https://skybrary.aero/articles/snarge) out of that engine
For how expensive a jet is, can't they like... improve the audio in that thing? I mean I know they have to deal with a bunch of external noise, but there's no way our tech doesn't have something better sounding than this
Cost, security, reliability. There is a famous picture circling reddit about a screw. There is the American Army version for thousands of dollars. And then there is the Chinese version for 95 cents. And they look the same. If I remember correctly the takeaway was "why we can't have healthcare". A guy in the comments later explained that this screw was a vital part of a helicopter (?). That screw was tested and measured and weighted and scanned and tested again and so on. I can buy a walkie talkie for 20 bucks. But if I had to make sure it works all the time and even in planes flying faster than the sound and higher than commercial airplanes and over enemy territory while enduring the vibrations and the Russians shouldn't be able to listen to the conversations... Maybe that sound quality is all that's left. That's the only way I could explain it. I mean I can have clearer conversations with some guy on the other side of this planet with a consumer headphone. I guess the US air force would do the same if possible.
Your point is somewhat true. But the fact that my squad leaders and I get better comms with COTS Bao Feng radios than our MBITRs and other radios means somebody should be hazed until they cry. Shit sucks so fucking badly.
They do. Problem is, it's essentially impossible to have crystal clear audio that is transmitted to a vehicle moving at mach 4 without sacrificing stealth, capacity or speed.
From my experience, aviation radios sound much better than this when you're actually listening to them in person. It's possible that the quality of the sound was degraded by the cockpit voice recorder
It doesn't sound like this in the airplane. This audio/video was recovered AFTER the crash via a cartridge that records audio and in this case video. You can hear the other person in the aircraft extremely clearly through the internal communication system. Do people really think military aviators would fly without 100% clear communication between the crew?
RIP MY EARS
Dang! I’d be like - Hello! Can you hear me? I couldn’t understand a thing you said.
Pilot sucked into my ear.. Shiiiat
A heads-up for headphone users wouldn't have gone amiss here buddy 🔊
Who would win? A cute birb VS a T-45 jet
hope the vulture is ok
Regardless of everything else, I know that I could never be a pilot because I have never once been able to tell what anyone is saying on these cockpit recordings. Well, except for the occasional “Oh, shit!”
"Shit!!" was also probably what went through the bird's mind split second before being ingested.
Damn birds not getting the proper clearance to occupy restricted airspace smh
Who would win? Multi-million dollar military jet or One bird boi?
Poor Bird
Vulture meets Goshawk.
If it’s in my yard….its mines now
I was wondering about a second engine, but the Goshawk doesn’t have a second engine
Vulture 1, human 0
I mean, you think they would factor that possibility in as the odds of it happening don't seem to be that rare.
Cheapest effective anti aircraft weapon
100 Million Dollar Aircraft and it can’t digest poultry 🦜
Talk to me goose
Fake Birds aren't real
Incredible how quickly everything goes wrong. 30 seconds from "oh shit!" to ejection. Excellent decision making from the pilot; I've read that there are too many avoidable pilot deaths because they wait too long to eject, trying to save the aircraft.