Matt Hall's amazing recovery

[@Kennymac8251]

I saw it in person, It happened so quick that I didn't really understand what happened. The video really shows the skillful flying and a little btt of luck involved. Amazing!

[@pancho1576]

Wow........ That guy just earned a double platinum "I'm a bad ass" card... Now that's what I call a pilot !!!! Phenominal save Matt!!!!!

[@AndrewMaughan7]

that was an awesome piece of flying to recover....seriously impressive

[@azseal]

Ridiculously amazing! These guys are by far the best in the world.

[@radioxdeath]

Pure skill no luck just pure skill I'm glad he is ok!

[@SPOOKSTR]

0:29 He can't believe he's alive. The save of the century !!! Go Aussie !!!

[@ColinBlountPhotography]

Great Job Matt. Just amazing piloting.

[@ATGaric]

Great skill I grew up around small planes when my dad was a pilot and he would take me to the bar at the airport and heard pilots stories about how they crashed and how some recovered nothing as bad ass as this!

[@PilotAce74]

A great recovery. An awesome pilot with great skill thanks to his fighter pilot training with the RAAF.

[@FIGHTSEEN]

Hall knows how fortunate he was.That cockpit cam shot after the event said it all.Nice recovery.I'm sure that's not the normal result.

[@MattRJH]

What a legend. Now that is skill

[@M0nsieurX]

Nice save!!! These pilots have the biggest cojones of them all!

[@tondan2011]

There's a fine line between "Hero and Zero" in this game!

[@tempjohn1111]

I think the bit of luck might be that the wingtip leading edges didn't bite into the water, and that the right gear pant impact didn't damage the tire or strut such that the landing would be compromised. It was an amazingly skilled recovery, but he was about 3 inches away from the leading edge of the wingtips digging in as opposed to the trailing edges skimming the water. Knife edge close call.

[@hawkpilot2312]

red bull literally gives you wings!!!

[@bluefisherking]

Whoa... talk about a brown trousers moment. Extraordinary skills to recover from that mistake...

[@fsfer]

matt you are a legend.

[@marcio1lifecycle]

Awesome, unbelievable crazy pilot.

[@andrewd010]

Somebody buy this guy a beer... Thats just crazy.

[@uzogsi]

@vruls if you eject that low there will be no time for the parachute do deploy. there was a video somewhere on youtube with a mig-29 crashing and that's exactly happened to the pilot- the parachute opened when he hit the ground

[@Aphorism89]

There's reaction time. It pretty much saved hid plane.

[@AndrewSmolenski]

Great Video, I've shared it on my blog (link in my profile) in an article about the Red Bull Air races going on hiatus.

[@xoneverwantedme]

This is absolutely amazing.

[@blastforyou]

when he went full knife edge the lift of wing went to horizontal plane (this force turns plane) and literally lost lift and can correct to some degree with full elevator. He should endorse a adult diaper and put logo on aircraft and he could say "Crapon is the best adult diaper in the business and i just wish I had been wearing one when this happened"

[@coppurt]

Proving once again Red Bull Racers are like modern day gladiators. Listen to how exited the narrator is speaking about someone's possible death.

[@GrigoriZhukov]

A classic case of "when something bad happens, just fly the plane" such a simple concept very few "get it"

[@Bear-form]

Mad skillz! Awesome pilot.

[@Uniformcid]

I dont know much about flying but that looks like it took some extreme skill to make that save.

[@DeadRoman]

most amazing shit to happen in the red bull air race so far. Dude has fuckin ice water in his veins

[@MrAineg]

What a plane n' what a pilot!!!

[@314731]

Awesome Pilot ..............

[@dokomana]

Lucky, Lucky, Lucky... In Poland we've some place that he should show on. It's called Częstochowa.

[@randallprince]

Airplanes like that were not meant to hit the water. He was lucky the plane wasn't destroyed or he wasn't seriously injured. All you people who are saying this was no big deal have very little concept of how dangerous that was. That was an incredible save that was both skillful and lucky.

[@RoboTekno]

That was a f**king epic save :D

[@johnson3369]

good recovery

[@DimitriNakos]

he is fucking insane... that was awesome.

[@hanscombe72]

I feel sorry for his wife. Who herself is/was an Australian air force doctor specialising in aviation medicine. At the end of the day she must be on the verge of a nervous breakdown watching her husband do this. And this was a guy who faced surface to air missiles flying over Iraq with the Americans in 2003. I hope his luck doesn't run out again.

[@johnvandeventer8668]

I could tell it's really hard to do that recovery

[@donahuerules]

hes so lucky good pilot

[@toose70]

How on earth did you keep the prop from striking the water Matt!? incredible mate!

[@nocalsteve]

"WAY WAY TOO LOW" Understatement of the year!

[@abysalhydra]

@CorrectiveAction i will point it out, it was luck the stall didnt roll the aircraft more, it was luck that water didnt "suck him in" he was lucky enough to skim on the water to make the recovery with quick reactions.

[@jeTROGIBBS]

thx to the fucking good construction

[@TriumphDoc]

Nothing to "figure out". He G-stalled the wing, brought the wings level, which unloaded the wing, and thus kept the wing flying. The "lucky" part for him was that he was in a a/c with amazing power to weight ratio that kept the wing flying with out having to go nose down. He would not have survived in a C-182 or even a Cirrus. I'm glad he's okay and can continue to entertain us with his flying prowess.

[@dandandamattressman]

if the object of the sport was to get as close to death without actually dying...he would be champion of the world

[@SFR75]

I like the little girl's reaction :) 0:24

[@nocalsteve]

@HaLoMaKeR123 Thanks, I think you're right. It makes sense now.

[@Teerroo]

You woudn't have survived that situation because you don't have the skills to do so. He did an error but he also repaired it with pure skill.

[@SamUKest89]

did he continue the competing in that specific run? i would have just wanted to get my feet back on dry land lol, well done to him

[@xReventonx]

FUCK YEAH , good stuff matt,

[@21LoDown]

@Amlaxx One already crashed a couple of months ago in a training run in Perth, Australia.

[@slyfoxflyer66]

EPIC.

[@Xelastic]

wow just WOW

[@CorruptH3ro]

Thats all skill

[@Barrosy]

10 years ago...

[@RodMafud]

very skillfull flying, mate... well done!

[@pianomansas]

amazing

[@Spazum888]

when is the next race?

[@DavidFlores]

beast

[@b71nKy]

@uzogsi Above water, and so close to the surface its not going to make much difference though, youd survive easily, providing you managed to eject safely.

[@karlbernz]

LUCKYYYYYYYYYYYY !!!

[@ibm0026]

mate, this is no luck at all, had he been unexperienced he would have been from the past. Amazing piece of flying from expert

[@GrigoriZhukov]

That was 90% skill , 5% solid enough airframe, 5% luck. It's obvious that people who think that striking the water is going to "Cause a massive life threatening problem" haven't much of a clue.

[@vfrmin]

@Heshhion Amen brother. That was close!!!

[@MrNandoMeis]

wow wooow wow!!

[@skylinefolife]

It's fucking funny how I'm reading these comments and seeing people wasting time & trying to "figure" out how he survived. It's fucking simple. God wasn't piloting. So who saved him? He saved himself. Yeah, the Engineering is also pretty fucking impeccable!

[@greycrow72]

@skylinefolife - Ya and if he would have died it would have been Gods will. This guy is an unbelievable pilot, that's all.

[@smittyguitarplyr]

@builder20 - Not necessarily... The chances that a plane goes down in this competition are incredibly low. It's not something the producers are going to expect. The families are probably just shown at different points during the coverage anyway, to keep things interesting and show the pilots' support - afterall, they film the crowd, too. Maybe it's a bit invasive, but I'm sure they had to agree to it.

[@CorrectiveAction]

@Ireg2post1 Luck? Do you have a dictionary? He was in high-g turn, stalled the wing 20 feet off the water at say 200km/h at over 90 degrees angle of bank, hit the water but recovered unhurt and with the aircraft flyable, to make a safe landing and race again some day. If you could point out which bit was luck I'd much appreciate it.

[@MrBlues113]

second 0:40 just like in fight club....

[@Jarvalicious]

Wait... 500k+ views with only hundreds of likes/comments?

[@nate2611]

@nocalsteve well from an australian i have no idea what he said really

[@jasonlajoie]

If ever there was a perfect situation to cause one to shit themselves, that was it.

[@majortuckage]

@Quontomleeep Working in the spinal unit of a major inner city hospital I see ppl who "continue to challenge things' scrapped up and delivered to us every week most of them change their attitude and have a new found respect for health and well being,for most it's to late and their new challenges become the hardest of all, like eating or going to the bathroom unsupervised.I look at people who take these sort of risks as,not brave or daring just dumb,stupid very hard to have sympathy for them.

[@blueb0g]

@ilias2oo6 LOL, no need to explode... stalls are one of the most dangerous things you can get yourself into while flying, and no, pilots do NOT stall accidentaly every day.

[@SPOOKSTR]

@CorrectiveAction Maybe the fact he wasn't 19 foot of the water instead of 20...thats pretty lucky.

[@teofilo022]

Hasta se cago el vato y en la entrevista dijo que iba preparado para eso, dijo: lo bueno que traia pamper 🤣😂😅

[@GlideYNRG]

Time to get the missus to buy a lotto ticket I think.......Good save

[@TobyMcVinn]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!

[@SWApilot94]

holy shit! he is really lucky his propeller didn't touch the water

[@Stanislav_Kuznecov]

Жить захочешь-ещё не так вывернешься)))

[@silentsmokey]

theres no energy drink on the face of the planet that could give you the rush you'd get off recovering from that

[@Ajcheeta]

Nalts?

[@PhilDugre]

@goose688 skills.

[@boundaryzero]

Had his prop struck the water, it wouldve been a water landing.

[@afslayer]

@bluemike155 GOD (Whom dosent even exist ) had nothing to do with it. It comes down to amazing engineering and an even more amazing pilot with great great training. Well done man, impressive save!

[@pdx650]

His wife must be fucking pissed!

[@rjwhitmer9]

@Ireg2post1 you do it

[@majortuckage]

@OweNKent Coming from a Canadian that hurts ! LOL .

[@Kroma1986]

man, i could do that with my eyes closed...

[@psychoclown420]

@corndog5595 There is no steering wheel in an aeroplane, my good sire.

[@Boxmanboxman]

I woulda shit my pants

[@Fatfool159]

Imagine if this wasnt over the water

[@pete49327]

pure luck he's still alive, he came within one or two inches of death.

[@MelPerezEsquire]

tell me what dat means...

[@56NomandMan]

Right you are. Armchair pilots are usually not pilots or ones that fly RCs!

[@eVaNdaguitar]

@Ireg2post1 yeah ok mate, we'll put u in the same situation and see how u go

[@therealhannoverfisk]

Tie me kangaroo down, mate!

[@tiredchimp2002]

That's how Chuck Norris cleans his plane

[@rumpastumpa]

pretty close to death there man