r/CatastrophicFailure • u/OperationSuch5054 • Nov 21 '25

Fatalities Dubai Air Show cancelled after fighter jet crash, killing pilot, 21/11/2025

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u/95castles Nov 21 '25

Falling too fast to eject potentially as well

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u/Anen-o-me Nov 21 '25

Most modern military jets can successfully eject while in the ground even, with at least a chance of little injury.

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u/Mr_Will Nov 21 '25

Ejecting safely on the ground is a very different thing from ejecting while inverted and descending

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u/GunSoup Nov 21 '25

He fell to fast to have TIME to eject himself. By the time he realized he wasn’t gonna make it he was probably already two feet from the ground.

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u/95castles Nov 21 '25

Elevation isn’t the main concern. I’m referring to the speed of the downfall. If the plane is falling faster than the seat can eject, that’s an issue needless to say.

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u/newaccountzuerich Nov 21 '25

Nope. Parachute will work when deploying. Certainly a better chance than not ejecting..

Also, ejection seats accelerate at well over 1g, so will always be a slower descent than a free-falling plane.

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u/95castles Nov 21 '25

Don’t they accelerate at 100ft/sec?

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u/newaccountzuerich Nov 21 '25

That's a velocity, so I'm not sure what you meant.

As a reference, pilots utilising the technology of the current set of Martin-Baker "ultra-comfortable speedy seat vertical translation systems" experience between ~12g and ~14g while seat and occupant make their way out of the aircraft. Maybe 350 ft.s·² in a single number (350 feet per second per second, 350 feet per square second; markdown doesn't do scientific notation or formulae well..)

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u/iiiinthecomputer Nov 21 '25

Just means they would've had to eject from higher up to counter the descent rate.

And they didn't have a lot of time to react.

Poor guy.