F-16 Lawn Dart

[HAL Pilot]

F-16 military fighter jet crashes into building in Riverside County

 

[TF7325]

Glad the pilot ejected safely. I guess HAZMAT had to respond as well.

 

[HuggyU2]

Oddly enough, I was standing on the Transient Ramp at March and witnessed the crash. What are the odds?

 

[Hozer]

bet that forklift operator had the best drink of his/her life shortly thereafter.

 

[Griz882]

Now I know why my Amazon Prime package didn't arrive on time.

 

[Griz882]

Glad the pilot ejected safely. I guess HAZMAT had to respond as well.

Was he able to deploy his ejection seat break-down rifle? That's a tough neighborhood.

 

[Flash]

Glad the pilot ejected safely. I guess HAZMAT had to respond as well.

I wouldn't want to mess with hydrazine.

 

[Swanee]

I wouldn't want to mess with hydrazine.

That stuff is... Nasty...

 

[Renegade One]

And...no fire?

 

[TF7325]

I wouldn't want to mess with hydrazine.

Didn’t realize that was used for the EPU. Makes sense now.

 

[ChuckMK23]

Wow I did not realize the F-16 used hydrazine to power the emergency backup - cool. We used to pickup expended Tomahawk missiles after test launches - the missle was still full of hydrazine and we would first winch down Navy EOD folks to make the missile safe - its scary stuff.

More good info on the F-16 here:

https://www.slideshare.net/matheusgaldino355/usaf-flight-manual-f16