 An example of what happens when you pull the lever
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It probably is best not to fiddle with switches or controls when riding in the back seat of an air force plane.
A man who failed to obey that principle found himself hurtling out of the cockpit, smashing through the Perspex canopy and into space after grabbing the black- and yellow-striped handle between his legs. He had inadvertently pulled the eject lever and found himself blasted 100 metres into the sky on his rocket-powered seat.
The South African air force has confirmed the incident that took place last Wednesday, when the passenger took off for a flight with an experienced pilot from South Africa’s Silver Falcons air display team. Investigators are assuming that the passenger tried to steady himself while the pilot was putting the Pilatus PC-7 Mk II through its paces by grabbing the eject lever.
Oh shiiiittttt!!!!!!!!!
I remember when I got my ride in an F-15, the pilot kindly pointed to the ejection seat controls, and told me not to ever touch.
I agreed with him.
That red ring around his neck is his asshole.
Cool pic…I need some of those beans.
“smashing through the Perspex canopy and into space” then “found himself blasted 100 metres into the sky”
Fucking morons don’t know how to write in Britland.
Sukhoi SU30?
No, it is indeed a Super Flanker, Sukhoi SU35. A rare bird.
My I bet that was exciting! I’m sure everybody was pleased that all that high priced military equipment worked just the way it was supposed to!
They aren’t ever going to let that guy back in a military jet and I suspect he doesn’t want to get back in one.
Let’s hope he knew how to deploy the ‘chute. Even with the excitement around him. Too bad the radio transcript isn’t available.
South African Air Force???? Who knew?
Fake. Put together for a movie.
#11 “South African Air Force???? Who knew?”
Who knew Zombie Mandella wanted to fly?
The Hot Seat..
Uhhh, that picture does NOT go with this story. A F15 or a Super Flanker was not involved!
The plane that was ejected from was just a turboprop plane — I’m sure the exit was a lot less exciting for viewers. Can’t speak for the ejectee though 🙂 Would like to hear what he/she thought about it…
He just needed to FLUSH..
This is the most beautiful bird in the skyes/none.
I think it’s a Su30 or a Su27UB. it’s a two seater, but it’s not the Su35, which has canard wings in the front and directional (vectorial) jet exhausts.
FYI
Rush Limbaugh ate too many tacos on his trip to Guadalajara
Al Gore, preparing to give his Global Warming pitch, pulled the wrong slide for his powerpoint presentation and thousands of miles away the butterfly effect kicked in and a random passenger is violently expelled from a South African jet. Gore tells audience that with the changes in Global temperature, more of these incidents are not just likely but instead are probable. As Gore puts it, “the statistics are irrefutable”. Who knew?
Just wait until the SA Air Force sends him a bill for the canopy, the rocket, seat, parachute and the repairs needed to replace same in the plane. Better have a black American Express card.
#10 Seat should deploy chute for him, in case the “pilot” is injured or blacks out from the ejection. He may want to see a good chiropractor because the g-forces from the rocket are high.
“pilot was putting the Pilatus PC-7 Mk II through its paces”
I’ll try to link to picture of plane
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Swissair_Pilatus_PC-7.jpg
Full story on the background of that picture
Viper007Bond…
Thanks for the link. That was fascinating. I still can’t figure out that crazy camo on that jet. And I was wondering what happened to the canopy in the photo. I assumed that it had been jettisoned in order to clear the way for the ejection.
That was a crazy stunt that pilot did… Mach 2 in open air. Who would have guessed it was capable?
My bad… it’s indeed a Super flanker
Tragically, it wasn’t Glen Beck…