A Chinese AF Fighter Jet Crashed Near Chengdu
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Its a bit premature to blame the Russians, lets wait until more details emerge. Watched on Hong Kong news that the pilot stay silent and did not talk to surrounding civilians and stayed put until the authorities came. HK news reported 2 ejected safely but this a j-10b is obviously only one pilot.
asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
Ejection seats work almost all of the time the seat does what it is designed to do but the ejection alone does not warrant a successful and safe landing for the pilot
The ejection itself is dependent on the aircrafts speed, air speed the angle at which he ejected and also the direction of the ejection there's a lot of factor that come into play when a seat ejects
You can have the worlds best ejection seat but still loose the pilot if for any unfortunate circumstance it does not meet the right conditions
asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
Anyone know how many J11B equipped with WS-10 engines have failed and how many AL-31 equipped J10A/B have failed?
Don't know why they can't just fit WS10 engines to J10 programme unless that is because they don't have enough AL-31 units
Strangely enough J15 is refitted with AL-31 too
Indeed a B-model (sadly) ... just look at the blade antenna on the spine, the J-10A had a different one !
J-10S has the same spine antenna as the B.
It's looks like a reasonably crowded urban area so glad no one on the ground is injured. I'm guessing by the time the pilot ejected the plane was pretty much stalling and had little forward speed which would be consistent with engine flame out, so the jet just dropped out of sky and the crash area is therefore pretty contained. Also ejecting over such an area is probably quite dangerous itself.
Zool
Junior Member
I'd agree. From the photo's it looks like the pilot maintained a level glide in until he was about to stall out and ejected. There would be much more kinetic damage from the impact if he had not glided it in and ejected earlier. Probably saved some lives on the ground.
The pilot looked calm and absorbed in thoughts. For him to eject until the plane got as low as reported, he must have stayed with the plane until the last minute. Credit him for steering the plane away from major buildings. How much control does a pilot have when the engine flames out? I hope he doesn't get in too much trouble.
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cn_habs
Junior Member
Who said Russian engines were better...
Good idea, lets blame the Russians, LOL-----in all seriousness, prolly fueling or engine failure, no need to stop production etc,, remember jet engines do fail?? # one reason Brat thinks all carrier based fighters should be twin engine!