Author Topic: Civilian passenger ejected from French 2 seat jet on accident.  (Read 941 times)

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A 60 year old civilian guy was taken up on a joy ride and somehow managed to get ejected.

Pilot got some cuts but managed to land the jet without its canopy.


https://www.aerotime.aero/clement.charpentreau/22486-civilian-passenger-gets-unexpectedly-ejected-from-rafale-b-jet
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Re: Civilian passenger ejected from French 2 seat jet on accident.
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2019, 12:59:48 PM »
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Re: Civilian passenger ejected from French 2 seat jet on accident.
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2019, 01:55:13 PM »
I'm going with camera strap.
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Re: Civilian passenger ejected from French 2 seat jet on accident.
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2019, 01:56:06 PM »
Didn't think you would be able to eject while still sitting on the ground.
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Re: Civilian passenger ejected from French 2 seat jet on accident.
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2019, 02:08:11 PM »
Didn't think you would be able to eject while still sitting on the ground.

Most seats (if not all) are now zero-zero. Zero altitude and zero airspeed. Luckily it wan't in command ejection, that would have been embarrassing to have both occupants spit out of the plane. Black and yellow striped handles. ;)

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Re: Civilian passenger ejected from French 2 seat jet on accident.
« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2019, 07:35:50 AM »
Didn't think you would be able to eject while still sitting on the ground.

They were airborne.


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Re: Civilian passenger ejected from French 2 seat jet on accident.
« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2019, 12:03:27 PM »
They were airborne.


Many moons ago, ATC in the Marines.  Slow as hell weekend day, we're sitting playing cards when we hear a whoosh sound and something goes flying by the windows.  We run over and look, and in the ramp area in front of the tower there's a pair of Marines in coveralls running to pickup an ejection seat off the ramp, and an AV8B sans said seat.

So, like, was there a Marine pilot in said ejection seat? If not -- who or what told it to part company with its assigned airframe?
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Re: Civilian passenger ejected from French 2 seat jet on accident.
« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2019, 12:54:17 PM »
So, like, was there a Marine pilot in said ejection seat? If not -- who or what told it to part company with its assigned airframe?

Negative.  Mechs were fixing something and somehow managed to set it off.  Lucky it didn't kill or injure one of the idjits.
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Re: Civilian passenger ejected from French 2 seat jet on accident.
« Reply #8 on: March 27, 2019, 02:03:56 PM »
They were airborne.


Many moons ago, ATC in the Marines.  Slow as hell weekend day, we're sitting playing cards when we hear a whoosh sound and something goes flying by the windows.  We run over and look, and in the ramp area in front of the tower there's a pair of Marines in coveralls running to pickup an ejection seat off the ramp, and an AV8B sans said seat.

I imagine that caused some moments of "what the *censored* was that???" amongst the ATC folk, not to mention the suddenly filled coveralls among the wrench turners.
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Re: Civilian passenger ejected from French 2 seat jet on accident.
« Reply #9 on: March 27, 2019, 02:09:51 PM »
Every now and then you would hear of an ejection seat accident onboard a carrier, usually while the plane was in the hanger bay. That seldom turned out well.  =|


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Re: Civilian passenger ejected from French 2 seat jet on accident.
« Reply #10 on: March 28, 2019, 07:35:38 AM »
Every now and then you would hear of an ejection seat accident onboard a carrier, usually while the plane was in the hanger bay. That seldom turned out well.  =|


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