ENGINE OUT! F-16 Flameout Landing Video Breakdown

hello everybody welcome back to mondays with mover i am mover cw lemoyne hope you guys had a great weekend today we're going to take a look at an f-16 dead stick landing an engine out back in 1996 where an f-16 went into elizabeth city without an engine which is a really harrowing hud tape and before we get started i'll read an article that kind of explains everything but i know people are going to ask why is the quality so bad if we can afford you know 20 30 million dollar f-16s why aren't they hd videos well first of all this video is from 1996. this this is an eight millimeter hud tape that was converted to digital and probably uploaded to 480p back you know in the early 2000s or whenever it was released so there's going to be some loss it is a little blurry it is a little hard to see but i'll try to explain we'll stop as we go and i'll explain how things uh are happening and kind of what they're talking about and kind of translate because it is a very interesting video and it's a good lesson not only in dealing with an emergency but we talk about crew resource management crm and a lot of people think fighters don't have that and you'll see in this video crew resource management isn't just two people in the same cockpit it's a flight so you've got a flight of four the guy who loses engine is number four of a four ship of f-16s from andrews air force base and you'll see the crew coordination between the aircraft and then outside agencies to atc so it's a really good case study in that and we'll talk about that as we go all right so aerospace magazine has a little blurb on this they call it a harrowing dead stick landing air national guard captain chris h rose was the fourth in a flight of four f-16s at 13 000 feet returning to andrews air force base outside of washington dc in june of 96 from a training mission at north carolina bombing range when he pushed the throttle forward he heard a loud bang i didn't know what it was but it didn't sound good he later told a national guard reporter then the vibration started the distortion was incredible the whole airplane was buzzing so probably some kind of a compressor stall issue rose immediately turned toward elizabeth city coast guard air station but he was above a layer of clouds and could not see the base his fellow pilots helped direct him and at six thousand feet rose broke out of the clouds and saw the runway he had to jettison two tanks he had a jettison two fuel tanks empty but still heavy and he feared they might hit a house in the neighborhoods below they landed harmlessly in a backyard he crossed the runway threshold 80 miles per hour faster than usual and used the emergency braking system taking most of the 7200 foot runway to stop rose's feet won him the corrin colligan jr trophy an air force award for meritorious handling of an inflight emergency and today the cockpit camera video of his ordeal is a big hit on youtube so a couple things out of that 7 200 feet 8 000 feet is the minimum especially with no cables so this is a really short field for an f-16 to be doing a flame out landing so really great job you'll see all the different factors involved and then the jettison of the tanks you know you have to do that for drag the other part to this too especially those of you that are playing dcs or you know know about 2.7 i did a video on the new clouds the weather makes it a huge deal it's one thing to do this on a clear vr vfr or visual flight rules visual meteorological conditions day but to do it with clouds not being able to see the runway to find the field trade that excess energy and actually land safely it's just a huge deal so let's take a look at the video [Music] all right here it is f16 engine out landing i'll leave the link in the description if you want to just watch this without me jibber-jabbering please feel free because i am going to stop this as we go copy that okay first off i'll explain god this is hard to see but uh this is his air speed on the left this is calibrated air speed it looks like he's doing uh 200 and something too i can't read that 239 or whatever he's at 10 000 feet that's his radar altimeter uh right there so that tells us ground above uh or his altitude above ground level and this is his altitude above sea level so pretty probably pretty close this is his heading this is what channel his frequency is talking to on his front radio this is back radio his squawk what steer point is going to current time and tack hand information the fuel just means he's hit his appropriate bingo bug which is typical when you're coming back from a mission uh right now he's in an air-to-air master mode with uh simulate uh the switch so it's a three-position switch how about giving us the elizabeth city tower frequency one or two standby [Music] okay so that's the first thing for the crew resource management um he's working his problem his element lead number three is in a chase position so flying uh where he can see him kind of flying formation off of him as soon as he got the emergency he gave him the lead he's flying that chase position he's working the radios for him so he's talking to atc he's going to coordinate everything for him he's going to kind of direct and quarterback this thing to allow number four to worry solely on flying the aircraft and getting the aircraft safely on the ground so again that's that crew coordination that we have even though we're in separate aircraft they're still helping them and probably prior to this when it first happens we're picking this up after the engine's already out but i'm sure when they went through the checklist you know someone else in the flight was backing him up reading the checklist to him helping him out they probably talked uh they might be a little far to talk to the supervisor of flying back home but they definitely were talking to each other working through the checklist together and trying to diagnose the problem to see if they could restart the engine or to make sure that they went through all the appropriate steps right now uh if the engine's out all he has is an emergency power unit that's powered by hydrazine which gives you about 10 minutes a little bit longer if he ran the jfs the jet fuel starter which can actually help power some of the hydraulic systems and stuff i don't know it's hard to tell with this but he had at least 10 minutes with that maybe more again depending on what other systems he had but he's it's not a lot of time because at the f-16 the thing to realize is once the engine quits um it's a fly-by-wire flight control system so once you lose electrical power there's nothing there's nothing you need hydraulics you need uh electrical power because it's a dynamically unstable aircraft based on its line characteristics so it needs all these computers and hydraulics and stuff to fly the aircraft safely and now you're seven miles nine thousand okay seven miles nine thousand feet the f-16s got i think it's a glide ratio like seven to five but they look for a one to one i mean you climb and pitch for one to one so one mile for every thousand feet you are uh he's at seven miles looks like he's uh 8 500 so he's in a good energy position 215 is a little slow but that's because he hasn't punched his tanks off yet but there are speeds and calculations that you would do in this situation to know um you'd have a basic glide speed uh i think it was around seven degrees aoa but then you have your basic glide speed and you would try to you would add fuel and stores weight to that but here he's going to punch off his tanks which is going to reduce some of the drag so the warning warning i mean as the system starts to fall offline he's just going to get warnings it's just going to be nuisance warnings master caution stuff like that eyebrow lights are going to uh appear uh he's probably going to get some kind of takeoff landing configuration warning and stuff like that these are all normal for the emergency he's in engine out landing at elizabeth city bully four five five point six bully four three five five point six so you see he put three five five six of the uhf frequency to talk to elizabeth city city tower elizabeth city tower it's off to your left okay so two people are now talking to him one uh on the primary radio his element lead is uh which i think it's itself lead it might be number one but one of his flight members is talking to elizabeth city tower the other flight member you hear he says hey it's off to your left that's his other wingman helping to point him on to where the uh where the runway is so giving him a visual point out because he's busy right he's got all this stuff going on so you can see again crew coordination they're helping each other out for engine out landing on runway two eight or zero i'm left now okay so two eight or zero they're basically saying whichever runway it's going to depend on his energy state but also he tells him to come left i want you to look at this this is not the the reason there's no you can't see any ground that's clouds that is just clouds he's he's hasn't penetrated so to speak the cloud layer so you know he's doing this through a scattered uh maybe broken i think it's more scattered uh undercast layer that he's trying to find a runway that's obscured by clouds and his his element mates are helping point out where the field is because you know he's at seven six thousand feet uh he hasn't quite picked it up yet drew runway one more is inside here's the win favorite runway zero seven zero okay so he says he's 20 degrees left he gets it in sight he starts his turn towards the field as he's doing that now he's out he was at that best glide maybe a little slow now he's dumping the nose because now he realizes okay i've got my glide met now i have to start working the numbers for the parameters to try to get to the right runway five the altimeter is three zero one three uh report uh five miles yeah he's engine out his engine has failed he's coming in no engine do you copy your copy okay so a little confusion there um i think it was because the tower guy says report five miles report five miles would be something a normal aircraft would report like if they're doing a straight iron or something the element lead that's talking on the radio just wants to make sure that he knows hey this dude's got no engine he's not really gonna report five miles he's just gonna do whatever it takes to land and that's just clarifying it's not it's not a hit on the atc guy atc guys being very calm giving him everything he needs and the guy before that was was a big help and doing a great job it's just he's a little amped up and he just wants him to know hey this dude's engine out so we're not gonna report anything just clear us to land we've got it we've got to make this uh happen okay if you're reading three on victor you're cleared to land on the east coast victor landing east west roger yep so he just clarifies hey you know you're clear to land whatever runway you can do we're going to go east because we're already heading east based on that and we're going to try to make this happen you can start to see the ground start okay so he just reiterates engines failed no start um maybe he tried to restart the engine while they were doing all this stuff as they were trying to get him set up he's got uh about 240 knots uh what is this 3600 feet or so stay the winds you want to jettison your tanks go ahead and get your tanks off now okay tanks are off okay so jettison the tanks he's flying with two empty 370 gallon fuel tanks and they they create drag so even though they're empty they don't weigh as much as if they were full they create drag shorten your glide distance he says go ahead and punch him off probably were waiting until they were under the cloud so they could see the ground to see where they went because they didn't want to just punch him through the undercast but uh you know they punched him off and and now he's going to extend how far he can glide one mark those tanks okay so he says one mark those tanks that is again there's four aircraft out here right four's got the emergency threes basically chase and working all the radios quarterbacking the stuff one and two are probably out not in the way but still in an observation position so he says mark those tanks which is basically using a gps mark to get the coordinates of where the tanks drop because that's obviously a fallen object and it went in some lady's yard but they mark the tank so they can come back and know where they went so air force personnel can go pick them up or assess the damage or whatever they can tell it to rescue personnel one's got a mark he's just letting him up yep i got it gear's coming down okay so i talked about the 11 to 17 degrees nose low i don't know where the runway is but typically it's somewhere in here between here and here is where the runway is is where you drop the gear especially being high on airspeed like he is good on energy so he's going to drop the gear i think he's going to do an alternate gear extend the thing about the alternate gear extend is the nose gear won't come down it's been a while since i've flown the f-16 but the nose gear will not extend fully until 190 knots or 195 knots so there's going to be a time where the gear is not unless he normal extends because he's running the jfs i don't know that's none of that's obvious but he won't get an aoa staple at any point through this and i'm really not sure why unless it's because he never came out of the air-to-air master mode but you'll see that here i don't i don't know why he should get an aoa bracket but that's the only consideration is when you alternate again gear extend which is letting it free fall and not using hydraulic power because he doesn't have it the nose gear will be the last thing to extend in elizabeth city he's turning a right base now he's cleared durant on a runway 1-0 craft calling affirmative any runway is fined runway 1-0 is clear win 0-7 0-5 uh clear to land and he is an emergency he is engine out his gear is down he's short final good got three green okay he's got three greens he must have normal extended i mean that's that's um if he'd altered it extended then the nose gear wouldn't come down like i said till about 190 knots um he should have an aoa bracket and i don't know why i don't uh maybe it's the software back in 96 maybe i honestly don't know i don't know the answer to that one um maybe because he was in a narrative master mode i don't know newer blocks the nose gear is what controls that aoa bracket so i'm getting a little confused on that part good you got three green you look good all right so he says he's got three green and then the wingman uh number three is watching him so he goes and does a quick uh check on him checks yep you got three down and locked probably sees the landing light that's a good indication that the landing gear is down and locked but he does a visual inspection yep you got three green okay now we can finally see the runway and so the way he's going to do this is he's got a lot of energy to trade off so he's going to aim short and then float so that's that's the whole thing you take all that energy and you trade it and you put it in the float you'll see his flight path marker which is this thing right here you'll see that go right just beneath the horizon line and he'll just hold it there as he bleeds off his speeds probably overrides the speed brakes which opens them fully which will bleed off that excess knots and they talk about 80 knots fast he's in a good energy state here he's doing a great job but it's just about cutting it at half so he's going to aim short aim short cut that in half then change his aim point to the end of the runway and then change his aim point remember he's only got 7 200 feet which is not a lot for a fighter going this fast [Music] zero three four roger continuing now okay so you saw that he cut it in half cut it in half cut it in half and now as he's getting over the runway his air speed is bleeding off and he's going to slowly transition that flight path marker just below the horizon and all he's doing now he's just in that flare that float and just bleeding speed off because you don't want to touch down like that you'll get hot breaks it's better aerodynamically to let the speed bleed off before he touches down but he touches down here 160 150 knots perfect for now get it stopped good job for now get it stopped he's being encouraging probably extraneous because i don't know that i would tell the wingman that because it might be a tendency to want to just jam on the binders he might be he's a captain so he probably knows but [Music] this time where number three is he actually chased him all the way down to the runway as soon as he touched down he watches uh he watches him and then he goes around so there are all three aircraft are watching this guy touchdown so he doesn't do much of an air brake gets right into three-point braking probably stick full left speed brake problem thanks for the help good job realize it's gonna stop no problem not not a lot of runway left though i mean he's probably you know looking at two thousand fifteen hundred feet or off your left wing high about six thousand koreans no joy so i guess one and two were off way off to the left watching this staying high and then three chased him down so when three came off um when three came off the runway he's like hey we're off your left okay now we gotta look for them because they're going to get back together and go back home let them know about the epu okay so he says hey let him know about the epu uh tower because when an epu fires it's hydrazine which is toxic i mean that's the stuff uh i think rockets were fueled with but it's toxic you have to breathe oxygen when it's running before they pin it and shut it down so he's just letting the fire guys know you know no one needs to come around the aircraft until they get it secured because it is a a hazard you know it smells like ammonia it's not good to breathe it'll give you cancer it's all kind of bad stuff and tyler he probably has a running epu with hydrazine you're going to need fire response there you go okay and you actually hear his breathing change that's him going oxygen 100 because he's trying to protect himself too so that's another thing we have to do when the ep is running on the ground now you know in the air it's no big deal because you got 200 knots worth of wind now on the ground those fumes can get into the cockpit getting the ecs system so it's a good idea to where uh to go actually 100 percent three is blind he's still trying to get back together see you later we'll get somebody down and take care of you that's awesome so that's it i mean i honestly i think they showed us this in the basic course i remember seeing this video long time ago it's a good video on less so i mean it's a great video overall i mean the dude had ice water in his veins i mean he did everything he needed to do got an award for doing it got the tanks punched off landed an engine out f-16 successfully didn't jump out really great job deserved everything in that award um deserve the award i mean they just did a great job but i think it's also a really good example of crm of the crew resource management and how even though everybody says well fighter guys don't know anything about crm well we do and it's not because we're in the same cockpit together although sometimes that's possible most of the time it's because we do crm within our element and within our flight uh and with outside agencies and stuff you know i mean if you've been closer to home and doing this at andrews you'd had the supervisor flying in the loop and the top three in the loop as well so it is a good example of how how that plays into that single seat mentality and how these guys helped him out and you know they work together as a team to get the aircraft safely on the ground and whatever problem was fixed i don't know what the result was i don't know if they did an aib or not it's too old for me to go pull an aib off the jag website but it's really interesting video really cool story and great job i mean just awesome job for this guy to to to land the f-16 successfully on a shorter runway 7 200 feet i mean usually you know the minimum for sfo is 8 000 feet so or fo i guess i keep calling it sfo but a really great job and a really awesome video so anyway hope you guys enjoyed this video and this breakdown uh please support fights on there's about 12 days left for our funding campaign to get the dog fighting show off the ground so check it out link will be in the description below i hope you guys have a great week thanks for watching we'll see you next time [Music] you

Channel: C.W. Lemoine

Views: 121,859

Rating: 4.9626236 out of 5

Keywords: f-16, flameout, engine out, crash, viper, fighting falcon, air force, navy, top gun, top gun maverick

Id: B0f7jyo1uz8

Length: 21min 57sec (1317 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 19 2021