Aviapedia

F-22 crash video

By Pavel | October 30, 2005 on 1:12 pm | In Aviation Video, F-22 Raptor |

Click to download F-22 crash video - small video of YF-22 (F-22 prototype), crashes on landing. Two-views video.
0,8 Mb, 0:08, 320 x 240, mpg

It seems like pilot put a plane into swing over swinging. It happens because of delays in plane-controlling systems-pilot system. The best way to deal in such case is to fix control stick in middle position.
In this specific case the story seems to be the following: YF-22 has thrust vectoring engine nozzles control doubled with gears - when gears down thrust vectoring is off. Pilot executes go-around, raises landing gears. It causes thrust vectoring turning on and sensitivity of control highly increases. Dynamic stability decreases and as a result - overswinging. In addition ground effect makes the task to fix control stick for pilot almost impossible.

16 Comments »

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Nice Landing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment by Jim Kiziridis — August 17, 2006 #
ya suuuuuure

Comment by Eric Bouwman — August 28, 2006 #
This pilot needs to learn how to fly the
Multiplex Easy Star
and then this F22

Comment by Freddy — February 2, 2007 #
Its a mistake…..

Comment by martin leud — February 21, 2007 #
The problem is not the pilot,but even the technology is a problem.Everybody knows that too much electronic doesn’t meen better.

Comment by Goran — May 11, 2007 #
Its a landing gear problem.. its not the fault of the pilot..

Comment by unknown — May 18, 2007 #
hey humans make mistakes it’s called human error no matter how high tech something is it’s still made by a human which means that somewhere along the line it will malfunction

Comment by angry pilot — May 27, 2007 #
Hmm,…. it’s just another part in the step for a true stealth fighter. Looking at the F/A 22A Raptor today, you can see that this was just a small lesson learned in the devolping stages in the aircraft. It’s things like this that leave lessons learned, thus making the aircraft better, from the start.

Comment by Sukio — June 30, 2007 #
off course a soft landing

Comment by konark — July 11, 2007 #
This crash costs how many dollar to american people?

Comment by Geek — November 19, 2007 #
$22 billion i think

Comment by Ace — April 10, 2008 #
I saw the video. It was the 2nd prototype of now f-22, in it the landing gear isn’t down due technical problem.but the pilot didn’t eject to save the million $ plane.we should give him a thumbs up.

Comment by Ghost — July 2, 2008 #
Freddy u stinky shit head the pilot risked his life to save the plane. if ur so good id like 2 c u in 1 of those planes. u shud b happy 2 pay sum mor tax 2 pay 4 that plane bcuz those pilots r protecting ur cuntry.

Comment by BIg Dog — October 24, 2008 #
Ok.. if you guys aren’t in the air force, and haven’t served, then you don’t know what happened.. Stuff breaks on planes every time one takes off.. And the guys who fix these planes do a great job.. so if you don’t know what you’re talking about with these planes then just don’t talk.

Comment by Ed — November 4, 2008 #
people learn from their mistakes. crashes always happen. it was a prototype so had mistakes. if didnt have any it wouldnt be called a prototype.

Comment by NoVoice — November 11, 2008 #
landing gear issue since landing gear on left side was test gear from another F22. mechanical failure said gear was down and locked butleft side would not stay down and locked. pilot flew patterns around airfield for hours till they decided to go for a cable landing. he’s lucky he didn’t pull a ground loop and explode when left side collapsed under mechanical shearing. End of story.

Comment by unknown — March 27, 2009 #