Mid Air Collision at my Base's Air Show Today

[grinningmule]

Crazy footage of the crash today. Two EA-18G Growlers from the Navy's demo team collided. Dry conditions and high winds have all roads shut down for emergency response and firefighting.

 

[She Mate Me]

Looks like all pilots ejected safely. You can see all four chutes open in front of the fireball. Seems lucky nobody ejected into the other plane.

 

[Dogpatrol]

Wow

 

[hdogg]

Wow

 

[ababyatemydingo]

The electronics in those planes costs more than the planes.

 

[greenbean.sixpack]

Holy moly, how did anyone survive that? Crazy

 

[DAWGSANDSAINTS]

Were the Thundersbirds scheduled to fly today ?
Assuming they canceled the rest of the show ?

 

[Dawg1976]

I’ve never seen 2 planes collide and stick together. Amazing the pilots were able to eject.

 

[grinningmule]

Were the Thundersbirds scheduled to fly today ?
Assuming they canceled the rest of the show ?

Yeah, rest of show except static displays were cancelled. They had all roads around the crash site locked down until the fire was under control and scene secured.

 

[grinningmule]

I’ve never seen 2 planes collide and stick together. Amazing the pilots were able to eject.

Tailhooks were down which has to be what caused them to stick together like that.