Offical Finding of RSAF F16 crashed on May 19

• sg1960

  9 Dec 04, 02:29

  
  
  12/7/2004 - RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) --
  
  Air Force officials announced investigation findings of a May 19 F-16 Fighting Falcon crash on the Tohono OÂ’odham Nation in Arizona. The pilot, Singaporean air force 2nd Lt. Kwang Han Loo, was killed in the crash. He was assigned to the 425th Fighter Squadron, a foreign military training squadron, at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz.
  
  The investigation determined the crash was caused by either a G-induced loss of consciousness, spatial disorientation or a combination thereof, officials said.
  
  During an intercept portion of the mission, the pilot began a maneuver from about 14,000 feet that resulted in the aircraft hitting the ground in a nearly vertical dive. The pilot did not attempt to eject, and the aircraft was destroyed.
  
  (Courtesy Air Education and Training Command News Service)
  
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• HENG@

  9 Dec 04, 03:49

  Originally posted by sg1960:

  12/7/2004 - RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) --
  
  Air Force officials announced investigation findings of a May 19 F-16 Fighting Falcon crash on the Tohono OÂ’odham Nation in Arizona. The pilot, Singaporean air force 2nd Lt. Kwang Han Loo, was killed in the crash. He was assigned to the 425th Fighter Squadron, a foreign military training squadron, at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz.
  
  The investigation determined the crash was caused by either a G-induced loss of consciousness, spatial disorientation or a combination thereof, officials said.
  
  During an intercept portion of the mission, the pilot began a maneuver from about 14,000 feet that resulted in the aircraft hitting the ground in a nearly vertical dive. The pilot did not attempt to eject, and the aircraft was destroyed.
  
  (Courtesy Air Education and Training Command News Service)
  
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  I only hope that he had lost consciousness and did not have to suffer the last terrifying moments of that dive.
• branzzz

  9 Dec 04, 11:39

  yeah...must have been freaky. anyway if he hit in a near vertical dive...probably he has gone through lots of neg Gs...
  
  i know a true story of a pilot who was involved in a mid-air collision. the autopsy found that he didn't die from the collision itself but from a heart attack. doctors said he probably looked up and saw the huge body of an airliner in his windscreen and got so terrified he had a heart attack moments before impact
• aerozapper

  12 Dec 04, 21:21

  Originally posted by HENG@:

  I only hope that he had lost consciousness and did not have to suffer the last terrifying moments of that dive.

  If it is true that he suffered G-induced loss of consciousness then it is unlikely he even realised he was about to crash.
  If it was spatial disorientation (loss of sense of direction while flying in the dark), then he wouldn't have realised he even diving until just before he hit the ground.
  
  I was at RSAF Air Logistics Dept (ALD) roughly around the time the crash occured, there was some debate going on between staff there about whether it was indeed a case of G-LOC as RSAF had only recently introduced new G suits (I can't remember the name of the suits).
  
  Anyway, whatever the case, its indeed a damn sad thing that a soldier died in peace time.
• HENG@

  12 Dec 04, 21:23

  Originally posted by aerozapper:

  If it is true that he suffered G-induced loss of consciousness then it is unlikely he even realised he was about to crash.
  If it was spatial disorientation (loss of sense of direction while flying in the dark), then he wouldn't have realised he even diving until just before he hit the ground.
  
  I was at RSAF Air Logistics Dept (ALD) roughly around the time the crash occured, there was some debate going on between staff there about whether it was indeed a case of G-LOC as RSAF had only recently introduced new G suits (I can't remember the name of the suits).
  
  Anyway, whatever the case, its indeed a damn sad thing that a soldier died in peace time.

  ok....