Viper crashes into warehouse in Southern California

ANG Viper crash in So Cal.
https://bit.ly/2Hme8AG

Also see: http://www.f-16.net/f-16-news-article5146.html

No fire!? Wow that is new too me... Not sure how but it looks like it went into the warehouse flat. The tail is standing tall!

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] ANG Viper crash in So Cal.

Here:

http://iebusinessdaily.com/developer-bu ... ness-park/

Developer buys land for second DC at Meridian Business Park

2014/02/10

Newcastle Partners Inc. has bought a 25.7-acre parcel at 22200 Opportunity Way, where it will develop at 510,000-square-foot warehouse-distribution facility, said Phil Lombardo, executive vice president with Cushman & Wakefield Ontario.

] No fire!?

I presume just upholding its early nickname: Lawn Dart. 8D

S/n?

Salute!

Remember, jettisoning the plane with no motor providing power, as in gliding, has the EPU running on hydrazine. One gee pitch command and zero roll rate command.

If in a fairly level attitude with low bank, time after time the thing gradually slows to the limiter and descends on a fairly shallow angle. We had one at Hill that actually "crash landed" and the pilot climbed over a rise to see the thing with a busted main gear, EPU firing and beacon on the tail still flashing!!!

Look at pics of that Thunderbird a coupla years back. He had about 600 or so pounds remaining, but motor quit cause he pulled throttle to cutoff versus idle when the latch mechanism failed. No fire.

Gums sends...

EDIT: A dash cam of the crash shows a steep bank, so there could be more to the ejection condition than running outta gas. FLCS? But most outright FLCS failures have been extreme nose down, not roll .OTOH, one of our guys had the uncommanded EPU overvoltage problem that fried the computers and he flew for several minutes on aircraft battery, etc. Thing finally started a series of barrel rolls and he had to get out.

Casualties, and no fatality.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/f-16-crash-l ... serve-base

F-16 fighter jet crashes while trying to land at California base, 12 minor injuries reported

2019/05/17

It looks like it flew accross the entire runway length after pilot ejection and then went into that wearhouse

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Anyone know which tail number it was that crashed?

Rumor has it it's 96081

Rumor has it it's 96081

Hmm.... I thought it was OU812

The unit has no 96081, it does however have an 89-2081. This matters to me because that was my jet when I was in the 4FS at Hill almost 20 years ago. I am really hoping that 081 was not the jet that went down.

96-0081 it is definitely not, as this is a Block 50, currently in Europe together with 9 other colleagues from the 148FW 179FS MN ANG

Wreck was wrapped up; can't read S/N on tail fin.

Officials Remove Crashed F-16 Fighter Jet From Building Near March Air Reserve Base (2019/05/31)

Officials returned to the crash scene Friday to hoist the remnants of the airplane onto a truck and haul it away.

The wings were no longer attached to the fuselage when it was loaded onto a truck.

Source: https://ktla.com/2019/05/31/officials-r ... erve-base/

Report: Hydraulic Failure Caused Jet Crash into Warehouse (2020/04/24)

Two valves were improperly installed on the jet, resulting in damage that caused hydraulic fluid to leak, according to a 22-page U.S. Air Force report obtained by the Riverside Press-Enterprise.

The valves were part of a flight-control system that was overhauled in January 2019.
They were installed in the aircraft months later after a possible hydraulic leak was discovered, according to the report dated April 14.

Source: https://www.military.com/daily-news/202 ... house.html