Would be a tough shot if pilot is ejected horizontally. But there is that mig-29 pilot. Maybe parachute in above or under pilot during ejection also matters?
J-15 carrier-borne fighter thread
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Would be a tough shot if pilot is ejected horizontally. But there is that mig-29 pilot. Maybe parachute in above or under pilot during ejection also matters?
vesicles
Colonel
I don't think it's the ejection system. The commander said the pilot would be perfectly fine (at most minor injuries) if the ejection occurred when the plane was on the ground. The problem was that the plane's nose was up and the whole plane was almost vertical during the ejection.
superdog
Junior Member
And the J-15 is equipped with a ground-level ejection seat.
You can see that from Ashbringer's translation: "if Zhang Chao found the J-15 was not right during landing run, and he ejected before fighter's nose risen up, he should survive or at most get hurt"
The problem was not that he was ejecting at ground level, the problem was that he was ejecting horizontally rather than upwards. I am not aware of any ejection seat in the world that is designed to handle such a situation (ejecting horizontally at zero altitude).
Are these ejection seats in test and evaluation phase or actually used in deployed aircrafts. Assuming they are in test and evaluation phase then it means as of right now no aircraft ejection seats can provide full safety in the scenario discussed above for J 15
China revealed the first fatal J-15 accident
China has admitted that a J-15 pilot was killed back in Apr. 27 this year. Zhang Chao was carrying out simulated carrier landings when he encountered trouble with the jet’s engines. He ejected from his stricken aircraft at the last minute and later died of his injuries.
...Condolences.
Hi Jeff, Blackstone posted this before, and the original Chinese link said it was flight control problem, not engine, and from the link, Alert 5 has changed "engines" to "flight control system".
Thanks for the clarification. Whatever the reason, my intent was to express my condolences.
Yes I agree, no matter the reason, PLAN lost an experienced pilot anyway, it is a sad news, and if I am not wrong, he was the second dead carrier pilot in PLA. Zhiyong Lu was the first.
However, there will always be some accidents during the process of building a totally new carrier force. R.I.P. for those brave pilots.
asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
Carrier programmes are dangerous and no doubt someone will pay the price
Condolences
Condolences
