Good that the pilot is relatively OK and we hope he will recover.
Incredible that there was no fire. Curious that ejection prompted a nose up attitude...
How many millions of hours of flight time between crashes of the f-16?
Very reliable jet. Glad no one was hurt
The Air Force will charge him for a new seat cushion at a minimum... after his butt chewed a hole in it.
” In a matter of seconds, my ankles were filled with water.””
That wasn’t water running down your leg...
It was amazing for me to see a hole in that roof, and yet no massive disruption on the exterior of the building other than that. Perhaps other photos reflect otherwise, but from what I saw it looked almost as if the aircraft dropped in the building straight down, and went nowhere.
You’d think one of the sides would have blown out. Didn’t seem to happen...