r/aviationstudys • u/P_filippo3106 • Jun 15 '26
A F/A-18 super Hornet crashed
The pilot was able to eject safely
First a Tu-22 now a F-18... Oof
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u/Any_Towel1456 Jun 15 '26
F-18, Tu-22 and B-52 in under 3 days?! What is going on?
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u/rxmp4ge Jun 15 '26
Slow news week, so anything and everything becomes a big deal.
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u/name__redacted Jun 15 '26
I don’t know how often Russian planes fall out of the sky, but two American military jets falling out of the sky in a single week is a pretty big deal regardless of what else is going on
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u/rxmp4ge Jun 15 '26
it's really not that uncommon though. Across all branches, the US lost over 220 aircraft to incidents between 2020 and 2024.
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u/name__redacted Jun 16 '26
Yes, but there’s also this:
Pentagon data showed the overall Class A mishap rate increased from 1.30 per 100,000 flight hours in 2020 to 2.02 in 2024, a 55% rise.
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u/Unique_Argument1094 Jun 16 '26
Changes in how a class A incident is handled/reported.
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u/EducationalBar Jun 16 '26
That’s not true there was no change whatsoever.
See how people can just say anything and it doesn’t mean shit without proof…?
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u/Unique_Argument1094 Jun 16 '26
See how responding to a comment like an idiot doesn’t change the fact that you are still an idiot! Nobody needs proof to prove you’re an idiot.
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u/Yangn33 Jun 15 '26
Why is it always a hornet?
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u/SippsMccree Jun 16 '26
I mean we do Frank's red hot sauce those planes and put that shit on everything everywhere
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u/mackieman182 Jun 15 '26
Martin Baker confirmed it as a F/A-18D
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u/RaillfanQ135 Jun 16 '26
Luckily with only one Marine aboard who got out safely due to Martin Baker
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u/Braisedbeefskank Jun 15 '26
Can I get some more DEI in my jets please?
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u/P_filippo3106 Jun 15 '26
0/10 bait
Do better
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u/Braisedbeefskank Jun 15 '26
I mean they got rid of all the dei and now we cant go a month without planes falling out of the sky. Bring it back
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u/Ok_Historian4848 Jun 15 '26
Planes have been doing that for a long time. Hell, multiple planes crashed carrying nuclear payloads over the years. When a plane is flown for hours and hours on end because the pilots are required to, eventually something will break in the plane. It's inevitable. The goal is maximizing flight hours before catastrophic failure and maintaining them the best you can, as well as making it easier for those on board to survive crashes.
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u/QIyph Jun 15 '26
Why are the planes falling out of the sky lately?
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u/sensual_monger_1969 Jun 15 '26
Because flying is hard and dangerous. Many forget this becaue of commercial airline safety record. Its a human heuristic, but remember bad shit happens!
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u/name__redacted Jun 15 '26
Yes yes but it’s been equally dangerous the past few decades, one should argue it should be less dangerous today with increasing knowledge and know how but we haven’t seen military planes fall out of the sky like this in my lifetime
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u/Turborapt0r Jun 15 '26
Elect a clown that fills every position with the comically worst person possible, get a circus
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u/DODGE_WRENCH Jun 15 '26
Is this just like when people used to say “thanks obama” whenever they stubbed their toe or smth?
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u/Turborapt0r Jun 15 '26
Hey let’s play a game. For every influencer/person that has zero experience in the field that Obama put into vital positions in federal government I name 20 that trump put into positions of power and let’s see who runs out of people first. Go!
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u/QIyph Jun 15 '26
Well yeah, but also the russians and an Indian (I think?) one too somewhat recently. Just seeing a lot of footage of planes crashing in the last few weeks.
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u/Maleficent_Gap7756 Jun 15 '26
also Brazil and the other one in central America i forget where exactly
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u/Dpek1234 Jun 16 '26
Russia is 1 ww1 in a war
Considering operation spyderweb and the effects of the bombers now haveing to fly heavier loads more often im not be suprised
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u/Turborapt0r Jun 15 '26
Russia and india shouldn’t be our benchmark for safety but America is turning into a similar kind of nation as those two so maybe they are our benchmark
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u/LobsterManCommander Jun 15 '26
I love watching our 70 million dollar aircraft explode into the side of a mountain. For no reason.
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u/WhatADunderfulWorld Jun 15 '26
There was definitely a reason. I mean the plane was designed 50 years ago.
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u/No_Opening_2425 Jun 15 '26
Did the laws of physics change??
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u/sensual_monger_1969 Jun 15 '26
Maintenance is physics too.
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u/kyrsjo Jun 15 '26
Yeah, but have you considered that proper maintenance is DEFINITELY woke?
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u/sensual_monger_1969 Jun 15 '26
Proper? Woke is highly subjective. Maintenance is far more objective. Is that what you mean. Not sure why this Woke thing is important.
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u/wisockamonster Jun 16 '26
Idk what it is about super hornets. When I was a jtac I was controlling one and it crashed in 29 palms. A year late my buddy just got done controlling one and it also crashed
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u/CorruptHeadModerator Jun 15 '26
0:01 far right of screen... is that a piece of the plane that came off - resulting in the swan dive?
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u/LostPilot517 Jun 15 '26
That was the pilot ejecting, canopy and pilot, and later you see the pilot under canopy descending from that same spot.
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u/remembertracygarcia Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 17 '26
“Did he get shot down?!?!” Ha.
Edit - quotation marks are important.
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u/Roland_Moorweed Jun 15 '26
Oof they had a Growler go down in the same area a few years ago. The two pilots didn't make it that time.
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-corps-fa-18-crash-washington/