Impatient F-16 gets tipped on its wing ...

[aspeck]

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Guess that is what happens when you are impatient and the guy in front of you is a bit bigger than you are ... Oopsie!

 

[fhhuber]

That's going to look really interesting on his performance review...

 

[gm280]

Oh man that is going to be costly to repair. They can't just flip in back down and go. Now it has to be torn apart to verified that the internal structures are okay. Looks like it had some cross wind. I don't believe it can turn and flip otherwise.

 

[southkogs]

2 B1 Crews, 3 F16 Jocks and he's stuck out there like a statue in the middle of the active ... he ain't gonna' forget about it any time soon.

 

[HT32BSX115]

Aww Jeeze, most airplane pilots know not to drive little airplanes behind any BIG airplane! (especially when they push it up to taxi!!)

 

[thumpar]

Oh man that is going to be costly to repair. They can't just flip in back down and go. Now it has to be torn apart to verified that the internal structures are okay. Looks like it had some cross wind. I don't believe it can turn and flip otherwise.

The thrust from the other planes jets probably helped blow it over.

 

[HT32BSX115]

I don't believe it can turn and flip otherwise.

An F-16 can absolutely "tip" if you try to turn too quickly at too high a speed....................It's got pretty narrow landing gear. But in this case, it just got blown over by the B1 (probably) using more thrust than needed to initiate the taxi into the T/O position.

Second time for this aircraft too (getting "tipped") http://www.f-16.net/aircraft-database/F-16/airframe-profile/3090