Navy jet hits bird causing it to crash into neighborhood

[@hobonickel]

The way the headline is written it sounds like the bird crashed into a neighborhood.

[@ericjohnson6105]

Technically correct, as the pieces of bird in the engine did crash with the plane into the neighborhood.

[@AlliedStatesOrano]

Yeah it destroyed one house and damaged another

[@gainerman]

That student pilot that came down on the high voltage powerlines was hurt bad .

[@guts-141]

Poor guy. He did so well and a bird ruined it all

[@Supgangy]

@@guts-141 it was neither the bird or persons fault

[@clarklight2918]

the ATC was still talking when the plane hit the ground lol

[@NewmanAttack]

He was talking entirely too much. Bad comms.

[@AlfieDoug]

​@@NewmanAttack I'm surprised how bad the audio quality is, the would be better using a pair of cheap CB radios 😂

[@alexanderthegreat9663]

I guess there’s only one cure for this Maybe put a scarecrow at the front of the engine?

[@glasstetris832]

You mean to tell me all I need for air defense against the US Gov is a flock of frickin seagulls....

[@JackpodyDK]

This is your first experience with birdstrikes, I see?

[@starexcelsior]

say you don't know anything about aviation without saying you don't know anything about aviation

[@glasstetris832]

@@starexcelsior say you don't understand comment section sarcasm without saying you don't understand comment section sarcasm.

[@370Redline]

Yea we don’t fight at 80ft to 2k feet lol

[@cfitzgduke]

Wow, they waited a long time to eject.

[@USLEGOAIRFORCR]

I think they tried to maneuver it to a field so nobody would get hit.

[@gainerman]

Was that the one that went down a year or 2 ago one of the pilots hit powerlines on way down?

[@dianecelento4974]

Says a year ago.

[@MatheusLB2009]

That's probably another

[@justanegsfan]

yeah it was

[@911dato]

Gentlemen, we can rebuild him we have the technology

[@windshearahead7012]

1:07 this controller was talking way too much in an emergency

[@CorruptSinz]

little bird 1 - us airforce 0

[@johnstephenson13]

I think the bird got it pretty bad too.

[@Freddyp007]

Navy*

[@quill444]

The bird, a moderately-sized Black Vulture, had demonstrated no belief whatsoever in a personal savior, and thus her next-of-kin wants everyone to know that, "She's dead now. She was alive, but that's no more. Deal with it." The bird's family, when asked, didn't even realize she was gone, and said, "To be perfectly honest, she's never here anyway." The bird, a five-year-old that, frankly, probably wouldn't have survived the winter anyway, was wanted for murder for pushing her sibling's egg out of the nest while she was a newborn, killing it instantly, just days before it would have hatched, something that is very common in the bird community. Many believe the bird may have committed suicide, but no note has been found. - j q t -

[@WilliamStewart1]

Seems like an awfully low approach no?

[@alexm566]

Who wrote the title?!?

[@MrSmith-kx7pq]

So a bird crashed?

[@uia_fan9552]

Yes

[@anthonyjewgieniewsokol1407]

You can see one bird on the far left side and far right side and than another comes into view on the right. Was the bird sucked into the engine and displaced/fractured a blade? They do officially call it a 'bird strike'. All jet engines should be able to cut up birds into smaller pieces so it does not cause a complete engine failure. Why isn't a fighter jet have engines like the turbofan engines made by Rolls-Royce General Electric Pratt and Whitney and CFMI that are designed to not be a complete failure if struck by say...Canadian geese?

[@carlpboyer]

That bird looks like it might have been a vulture. Engines can only survive strikes from birds to a certain size. The T-45, unlike an airliner, is single engine so that is strike one. If the bird struck the intake or side of the aircraft causing more material to be ingested, that's strike two. They are already low and slow on approach, so even if the engine survives, it is not likely operating at max power any more - strike three.

[@josephtovar1909]

Fighter aircraft have a low bypass engine which means most of the air that is sucked in is compressed by a several rows compression fan blades and forced into a combustion chamber. when fuel is introduced it combusts and the exhaust is used to power the fan blades and produce forward thrust. Each titanium fan blade is only about 1/8th of an inch thick and designed only to ingest air. Introduce anything other air into the intake and those fan blades will bend and rip from the core and shoot out, destroying anything in their way causing more fan blades to rupture and causing a domino effect known as “shellout”. As soon as the engine goes BOOM the aircraft falls from the sky like a rock due to the very little lift produced by fighter aircraft wings. -Your Friendly Neighborhood Crew Chief-

[@lukelee7501]

@@josephtovar1909 That's dead on there nose picker...perfect explanation that jet turned into a giant paper weight very quickly

[@RealRavi]

Those commercial airliner engines are high bypass - most of the air and thrust comes from air flowing around the outside of the compressor stages. Bird parts can bypass the engine. Some fighters are low bypass engines where most of the air goes through the full stack of compressors stages which means the poor birds tend to damage more of the vital components.

[@lukelee7501]

@@RealRavi Most turbofan engines on airliners today have a 12 to 1 bypass. But still a bird the size of a duck or goose will likely fod out these engines too if they get sucked into the intake...jet engines don't like to eat anything except air or water ,anything else gives it the hiccups for sure

[@sonnylaluz8856]

Is this real?

[@buttmunch397]

No this was written by a monkey.

[@AureliusR]

No, it's fake. Duh, of course it's real, do you have eyes?

[@sonnylaluz8856]

Ok thanks, no ill harm intended. 😐

[@brianpeltonen6799]

2023 and there still no filter for these turbines

[@RickDockhard]

Screens are used for ground turns (operating the aircraft on the ground for testing systems) but are not feasible for flight due to the amount of air that is cut off from just having a screen. It can reduce the airflow into the engine by more than 40%, and that is not something you want. Better off just hoping to not have a bird strike, as they're pretty rare.

[@AureliusR]

If you're about to comment that "wow, how come a bird can take down a military plane? can't they do something about that?" Just stop. Go read about birdstrikes and birdstrike mitigation, spend a few hours reading about how jet aircraft work, spend a few more hours reading about incidents involving military aircraft and birdstrikes, and THEN come back and write your comment. Because you won't, because you'll know how much of a freak accident this is.

[@InsaneFirebat]

Or, you can just leave a comment and let someone else do it for you. Because you will :)

[@Phown1337]

say you're an angry person without saying you're an angry person

[@AureliusR]

@@Phown1337 what

[@Phown1337]

am I wrong? LOL

[@AureliusR]

@@Phown1337 uh, yeah? how did you interpret what I said as being angry?

[@totalitarianism1989]

No sense of disturbia

[@StillaYouTubeGuy]

I mean did these guys survive or what?

[@damaribrackett1159]

Yes no deaths

[@frogrot]

both pilots used their ejector seats

[@MintVipers]

Kamakazi birds are real

[@jameslewis8438]

Why waste money on artillery in wars when you can release a flock of birds

[@MatheusLB2009]

Did *a single bird* caused it to crash?

[@guts-141]

If you watched Top Gun 2 you would understand

[@tylermitchell7679]

Is there a reason the audio needs to sound…bad?

[@carlpboyer]

That's kind of how the sound is in aircraft over the radio. It isn't crisp and clear like in a movie or on TV.

[@lukelee7501]

that's the hud radio ..it sounds alot better inside his helmet

[@ericjohnson6105]

Someone sounds like a bad Speak and Spell. Or the Sardaukar raver.

[@L3GN5RW9]

Or Half-Life HECU marines

[@fazlyizwan]

Possibly the bird escape from Kim Jon-un palace in Pyongyang...

[@zbee-nah-lah]

looks like an f18 hud

[@verschepard]

The sound quality of the radio is so dam stressfull.... Don't wanna be a jet pilot any more😆

[@guts-141]

Bird got you scared

[@verschepard]

@@guts-141 it seems so 😆

[@totalitarianism1989]

Like really .

[@kennardjohnson7875]

Thats why you need twin engine trainers,navy got cheap and it's costing them. Over water and rural areas it's fine, you can't fly in to population for that reason.

[@lukelee7501]

single engine jet aircraft fly all over populated areas everyday ..just can't hit birds with any aircraft ,they don't like birds

[@leprechaunbutreallyjustamidget]

Single engine aircraft fly over cities every day things happen get over it

[@NeptnSpear]

Go up go up

[@jerryf4806]

Calm down girls…..much too sensitive in the comments area. Ejecting over residential area is not cool, however!👨‍✈️

[@tomfrantz]

Crow.

[@Paulley]

Oh dear

[@blackhawk6615]

Wow!!

[@marko5374]

Bird strike !

[@tylerdurden4006]

Imagine having an airforce that keeps crashing into your own neighborhoods.

[@pedrofox2609]

No seat ejection possible 🤔? Perhaps to sudden to eject.

[@mif4731]

They did eject

[@CLGLS600Mercedes]

Hundreds of millions of dollars & it can't handle s bird.

[@variableknife4702]

Might be over-stating the price tag - tho admittedly it isn't cheap. There are also not too many bird-proof aircraft. You can get lucky. Sometimes it doesn't bring the plane down... but at jet speeds that's a lot of damage. Planes aren't built like tanks, or even cars - and they can't be or they won't fly. It (probably) wouldn't bring down an A-10 -but an A-10 isn't exactly a trainer and costs a lot more to operate.

[@Gillespie28]

The issue is it gets sucked into the engine intake and destroys components. Engine goes out, jet goes down.

[@TermiCobraKid]

Tell me you know nothing about aircraft without directly saying it

[@BlatentlyFakeName]

A bird going in to the engine can't really be stopped. It's probably a single engine fighter. That's why most modern ones have two.

[@johnhall6796]

@@variableknife4702 slightly different, a10 is a twin, the goshawk is a single engine.

[@zambd23]

Russian bird.

[@theussmirage]

Chinese markings are clearly visible if you freeze frame the video

[@mrlynch52]

Multi million dollar aircraft can't even detect a bird about to hit it?

[@Bankfishing.]

🎉

[@theequalizer9052]

Why spending billions in missile R&D when a single bird still 'does the job'...

[@darnelldarnell2609]

With all of the technology that we have YET birds are taking down $300M aircraft....is just beyond me

[@ReefKeepin]

300m? Might want to check your facts 😂😂😂😂

[@trevorlinder]

T45 Goshawk is with about 250K, if that.

[@jsmitz237]

Whats so wild, is that i’ve never seen this in the news, it’s like they try to hide this kinda stuff from civilians, or atleast the outcome…that thing went into a house!

[@mikebridges20]

It probably couldn't be released until the accident investigation board finished their investigation and issued a probable cause.

[@starexcelsior]

its local news, this happened a year ago and it was big news back then for the local area

[@lukelee7501]

The military would prefer to keep all accidents classified pending investigation

[@joeystillpoppin1173]

Billion dollar jets cant detect birds in the airspace perhaps they should fly above deck altitudes instead of below 2000 feet over civilian neighborhood's that's careless. So flocks of birds can be weaponized think about that simple fact .. Smh

[@smurphy1977]

They aren’t just joy riding they were landing… how are they suppose to land?

[@kevincagla4895]

Its not a billion dollars jet its millions

[@garyreed2206]

I love how people who don't know the difference between their A$$ and a hole in the ground seem to have all the answers. 🤦‍♂

[@theussmirage]

Birds cannot be controlled to an extent that would make them a usable weapon, and they typically fly too low to impede an aircraft that isn't landing or taking off

[@lukelee7501]

@@theussmirage on the other hand a cheap drone that you can buy at Wal-Mart does what you are talking about .l was flying just just off Daytona Beach one day at 2500 ft and I saw one of those things level with me just of my left wing and it scared me half to death...reported it to atc...not supposed to do that. That thing can do alot or damage to an airplane if you hit one

[@SB-qm5wg]

An aside, how the HELL can they tell what each other is saying? You got smart bombs, drones, etc.. but top grade military hardware needs really low-tech radio to work. Even in slow-mo I can barely understand a word being spoken.

[@AureliusR]

That's because you're listening to the recording on the HUD camera. This is *not* what it sounds like to the operators.

[@johnhall6796]

Its actually pretty crystal clear.

[@datmeme8967]

How many times does this have to happen before they put cowling shields on planes? Like a conical screen with large mesh count that would defect an object like a bird away from the intake without impeding air flow. Seems pretty basic. It could even be retractable and only used at lower altitudes/on takeoff and landing.

[@spankyharland9845]

then you will get a smashed metal mesh screen and dead bird sucked into the turbine....it is an amazing amount of force that happens, an aircraft traveling at plus 100 mphs and a good size bird smashing into it. If mesh screens could prevent it, those things would have been on jet intakes many moons ago.

[@datmeme8967]

​@@spankyharland9845 The design is not like a window screen that absorbs the full perpendicular force vector. I'm suggesting a cone with a small vertex angle thereby making the angle if incidence high enough to deflect the strike, not absorb it. It's not hard to calculate the resulting orthogonal force components to ensure that the proper materials are used. The Industrial Revolution equivalent is the cowcatcher on the front of locomotives.

[@spankyharland9845]

@@datmeme8967 like the SR71 jet engines, where there is a cone that moves back and forth to control the air intake- well if you can invent something like that, you will be an aircraft safety rock star... because you will be preventing a lot of bird into engine intake strikes and saving lives !

[@datmeme8967]

@@spankyharland9845 That's thrust vectoring. This doesn't need to move like that. Just think of the difference in the impact you would feel if you fell from a 30 foot high platform onto the flat sidewalk compared to landing on a 45° slope. And the steeper the slope, the less impact you would feel.

[@spankyharland9845]

@@datmeme8967 you would design the screen mesh at an angle so the bird would glance off it rather then smashing into it with major impact. sounds like a plan.

[@jamesjazzy8040]

Can someone tell me how a little tiny birdie can take down an airline in the year 2022 ? Sounds to me like a metal wire mesh screen would stop the bird(s) but what do I know... we can fly into Afghanistan and capture bin Laden with the help of drones but were still allowing little birds to take down Planes ?

[@jayratliff4191]

The mesh would interfere with the air flow to the engine. Commercial airliners considered adopting the same thing (many times) and it was problematic from an engineering standpoint.

[@jamesjazzy8040]

@@jayratliff4191 yeah I thought of that too it doesn’t make any sense...

[@shywolf1866]

Simulator

[@AureliusR]

No, not simulator.

[@owner232]

intense event, I just feel like crashing into houses is a no go, he could of turned and that aircraft fell really really fast I think the decent could of been controlled at 150mph and the aircraft could of been bailed out of over a safer area than someones house....

[@v_allen805]

You’re going from flying completely straight and normal to losing an engine at a thousand feet at low speed. There was about ~20 seconds between an emergency (which you can’t see coming) and the plane hitting the ground. In that time you’re troubleshooting, executing your EPs, and ultimately, making the (not insignificant) decision to eject AFTER you’ve exhausted all other options before you turn into a fireball. I promise, where the plane is heading is not something going through your mind in a situation like this. If the possibility of a plane potentially hitting your house is unpalatable to you, consider not living near the end of a runway.

[@jasontomica8938]

What pisses me off more this stupid jet could of killed many people on the ground since it crashed near some houses!!!!

[@SG-us4gz]

You aren't very bright, are you.

[@KalikoTrapp]

Some good general advice would be not to purchase and/or live in a house beneath the path of aircraft below 2000' on approach or departure. In the case of this accident specifically, I don't see the pilot having anything else he could have done; where else do you see that he could have gone?