Israeli F-15's Canopy Comes Off At 30,000 Feet

[Daryl Hunt]

And you thought your last flight on Southwester was bad. Check this out.

 

[miketx]

No video, fake.

 

[Daryl Hunt]

No video, fake.

Of course there is no video. And exactly how many Fighters have a Video Bird flying along with them at 30,000 feet? Are you saying my research is faked? Here we go again. Once I prove that it's not will you take a sledge to your keyboard, pour lighter fluid on your computer and light it and run screaming naked from whatever building you are in?

Harrowing Audio Shows Moment When An Israeli F-15's Canopy Comes Off At 30,000 Feet
An Israeli Air Force pilot was able to make an emergency landing of his F-15 fighter last week after its canopy suddenly came off at 30,000 feet, and newly-released audio shows how the harrowing ordeal sounded in the cockpit, according to Haaretz.


The audio of the incident starts off normal, with a voice asking about what altitude the pilot will be maintaining. And then... all hell breaks loose once the canopy comes off, amid screaming and outside wind. As Haaretz noted, the pilot and navigator were also dealing with an air temperature of around minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

"The pilot, Captain Y., and the navigator, Lieutenant R., conducted the event in complex conditions where there was a real risk to the plane and crew," the Israeli Defense Forces said in a statement to The Jerusalem Post. "The plane's crew was in full control throughout the incident, acted with level-headedness, professionalism and great skill in handling the rare malfunction, and landed the plane safely at the Nevatim Air Base."

About a second after the canopy releases and the pilot Capt. Y gets his bearings, he asks his navigator, "I hear you, do you hear me?"

He adds: "I'm taking it in for a landing at the nearest base without a canopy. Can you hear me?"

After a few tense seconds, the navigator finally responds: "Can you hear me? Yes I can hear you."

They both tell each other they are doing fine, before the pilot starts talking to the ground about where to land and calmly relays what's happening. And then once he got on the ground, he very likely had to get the ground crew's help with getting his huge brass balls up and out of the cockpit.

Israeli Air Force Commander Maj. Gen. Amikam Norkin has ordered all F-15 training flights ceased until an investigation is completed, according to JPost.

And now for the Original from Jerusalem Post.

Pilot, navigator land safely after losing cockpit of F-15 at 30,000 feet
According to the senior Air Force officer, there have only been three similar incidents where a F-15 canopy has detached mid flight in the world.
By Anna Ahronheim January 7, 2019 09:52

Two Israel Air Force pilots carried out an emergency landing after their F-15 fighter jet lost its cockpit canopy during a training exercise at 9,000 meters.

The pilot and the navigator had taken off from the Tel Nof airbase in central Israel and headed south. During the flight the canopy suddenly detached for unknown reasons, leaving the two pilots exposed to a severe cold of -45°C, violent turbulence and deafening noise.

Once the air crew understood that neither had been injured by the sudden detachment of the canopy, they estimated that they would be able to bring the damaged plane to a safe landing at Nevatim airbase east of Beersheba.

The crew, which had to communicate to each other by yelling, radioed the control tower at Nevatim – some 15 kilometers north from where they were – which was put on alert to prepare for an emergency landing.

The pilots, who were having difficulty communicating with one another and were facing strong winds and biting cold, slowed their damaged plane and began an orderly descent towards the airbase where they landed safely.

According to a senior officer in the Air Force there were no indications or warnings before the canopy detached.

“At what height are you going to stay at,” a voice is heard in audio recording of the incident released by the Air Force on Monday. The sound of the cockpit detaching and subsequent screaming is then heard before Capt. Y. is heard telling the ground controller that he and his co-pilot will be “coming in for a landing at the nearest base without a canopy. Please confirm.”

The plane’s navigator, Lt. R., then asked the pilot if he was all right, who screamed back “Yes, everything is all right.” The navigator then confirmed that he too was alright. They then decided to slow down their speed to 200 knots and recontacted the tower to inform them that they would head to the airbase for “an immediate landing.”

The two pilots were given a medical check when they landed by emergency rescue services and were found to be uninjured.
“It went from 0-100,” the senior officer said. “Imagine you go from the quiet in the canopy to a massive boom and being exposed to all the elements. You have to think, am I injured, is my co-pilot okay? There are many things the pilots have to deal with within seconds.”

“The pilot, Capt. Y., and the navigator, Lt. R., conducted the event in complex conditions where there was a real risk to the plane and crew,” the IDF said. “The plane’s crew was in full control throughout the incident, acted with level-headedness, professionalism and great skill in handling the rare malfunction, and landed the plane safely at the Nevatim Air Base.”

Following the incident IAF Commander Maj.-Gen. Amikam Norkin ordered a stop to all training flights for the F-15 until an investigation is completed.

According to the senior officer, there have only been three similar incidents where an F-15 canopy has detached mid- flight in the world. In 2004, another IAF F-15 lost its canopy and in 2014 a US Air Force F-15 fighter jet lost its canopy during routine training exercises off the coast of Okinawa, Japan. The crew landed at the Kadena Air Base with no injuries.

“This is a very rare incident,” the officer told reporters on Monday. He noted that in regards to the 40 year-old jet, the military is still searching for the canopy.

The air force – which is in contact with Boeing which manufactures the jet – is investigating whether the canopy detached due to a mechanical or technical fault.

“We are already in contact with the American manufacturer to understand the nature of the problem and its source,” the senior officer said, adding that the “F-15 Falcon has undergone changes and adjustments over the years and is still considered to be the most significant aircraft in the Israeli Air Force.”

Most of Israel’s F-15s were acquired in the second half of the 1970s with a more advanced squadron of the F-15 arriving in Israel in the 1990s. The Air Force is set to place orders on several new aircraft to upgrade its aging squadrons, including a new model of the F-15IA from Boeing.

The F-15IA model that the Israel Air Force is leaning towards purchasing is being advertised by US defense giants as one of the most advanced and cost-effective fighter planes ever to be built.

The jet will have fly-by-wire avionics to reduce maintenance costs and advanced sensors and displays with high reliability. The wings have also been designed to be able to use two additional outboard stations to carry a payload of some 13,380 kilos such as 12 air-to-air as well as 15 air-to-ground or air-to-maritime strike weapons which are able to engage multiple targets simultaneously.

Officials believe that a force mix of F-35I Adir stealth fighter jets built by Lockheed Martin along with a squadron of F-15IA would allow Israel to carry out a number of complex operations, including dealing with any possible confrontation with Iran on its borders.

Telling a Military Historian that he's telling you fake news is just wrong. So you can take your fake opinion and place it where the sun don't shine.

 

[Daryl Hunt]

The Fake Canopy was found by the Fake Israeli Military near the Fake West Bank. Of course it's not fake. No pictures of the canopy though. This is according to the fake timesofisrael.com news.

 

[H B Lowrie]

• Israeli arms sales to Europe grew from $724M in 2014 to $1.63B in 2015
• Although the size of New Jersey Israel is one of the top 10 arms dealing nations in the world
• Israel produces 60% of all drones worldwide and sells to over 50 countries, at times selling to both sides of a given conflict, and Israel fueled the drones arms race between India and Pakistan

Palestine is an open air weapons testing and crowd control laboratory with Palestinians being used in the development phase; Gaza is a lab of mass destruction. US super bunker busters were supplied to the Israelis in 2014 and investors stock shot up; war is just business after all.

The “War in Terror” has been a boon to the industry, you’ve seen what amounts to advertisement in every “news” outlet, we are being whipped up into a frenzy once again. The industry also pioneers crowd control research on the Palestinians, and Israel is involved in the training of American forces and law enforcement. We see this in the militarization of our own police departments, Ferguson was but one example of how our system is prepping to Palestinianize our own population, and in fact Ferguson now has Israeli developed/sold skunk spray post the Ferguson events, although no incidents have yet been reported of use on American streets. It’s pretty clear that the Israeli occupation style power structure is moving toward the same in America; a warehousing of the poor in a post industrial age with diminishing living wage jobs and privatized for profit prisons complete with a return to convict leasing.

Much of the security monitoring and mass surveillance technologies are also produced in Israel and sold across the globe. “Targeted assassination” was invented in Israel, which Obama was quite fond of. Abu Ghraib torture methods? Israel.

The US and Israel are not allies. The US and Israeli arms dealers are allies, and war is the business they are both in. We are all collateral damage.

 

[Daryl Hunt]

• Israeli arms sales to Europe grew from $724M in 2014 to $1.63B in 2015
• Although the size of New Jersey Israel is one of the top 10 arms dealing nations in the world
• Israel produces 60% of all drones worldwide and sells to over 50 countries, at times selling to both sides of a given conflict, and Israel fueled the drones arms race between India and Pakistan

Palestine is an open air weapons testing and crowd control laboratory with Palestinians being used in the development phase; Gaza is a lab of mass destruction. US super bunker busters were supplied to the Israelis in 2014 and investors stock shot up; war is just business after all.

The “War in Terror” has been a boon to the industry, you’ve seen what amounts to advertisement in every “news” outlet, we are being whipped up into a frenzy once again. The industry also pioneers crowd control research on the Palestinians, and Israel is involved in the training of American forces and law enforcement. We see this in the militarization of our own police departments, Ferguson was but one example of how our system is prepping to Palestinianize our own population, and in fact Ferguson now has Israeli developed/sold skunk spray post the Ferguson events, although no incidents have yet been reported of use on American streets. It’s pretty clear that the Israeli occupation style power structure is moving toward the same in America; a warehousing of the poor in a post industrial age with diminishing living wage jobs and privatized for profit prisons complete with a return to convict leasing.

Much of the security monitoring and mass surveillance technologies are also produced in Israel and sold across the globe. “Targeted assassination” was invented in Israel, which Obama was quite fond of. Abu Ghraib torture methods? Israel.

The US and Israel are not allies. The US and Israeli arms dealers are allies, and war is the business they are both in. We are all collateral damage.

And what does this have to do with a friggin canopy coming off at 30,000 feet? Not a damned thing. Did your Iranian Employers pay you well?