F-16 fighter jet crashes in Pakistani capital

In preparation for the parade, the F-16 fighter of the Pakistan Air Force fell. The parade is held annually on March 23, when the country celebrates Pakistan Day.

The crash of a military aircraft is reported by The Express Tribune.

The incident occurred in the Shakarparyan region of Islamabad. Having fallen, the plane caught fire.

Not far from this place is the hill where the "Stone Flower" is installed - a monument in honor of the struggle for the independence of Pakistan.

Pilot Noman Akram Shahid, who controlled the fighter during a training flight, died. Earlier it was reported that he managed to catapult and survive, but then the Pakistani military confirmed his death.

Information about the devastation at the crash site and the victims has not yet been reported. There are now rescue services, doctors and field workers. An investigation is underway that identifies the causes of the disaster.

F-16 is the main fighter of the Pakistan Air Force. In this country, it has been in service since the 80s of the last century. Since then, it has undergone repeated modernization. Recently, this is the third crash of a military aircraft in Pakistan. One of the previous cases also ended in the death of the pilot.

Comments

[figwam]

It seems that the height was not enough.

[kit88]

So, like an iron, it falls vertically.
Left vertically up ..
.... also vertically and returned.

If I’m not mistaken, something like that was with us in the summer of 2012 on air. Besovets.

Su-27UB began to perform aerobatics "bell"

during which the fighter entered an "inverted tailspin". The pilots tried to rectify the situation, but it was not possible to get the Su-27 out of the spin, the pilots ejected

[ABM]

One engine is always dangerous

[maidan.izrailovich]

American planes "never shot down". Why do they fall so often?

As of June 2016, over 650 incidents leading to the loss of the aircraft (F-16)

[figwam]

Why are they falling so often?

In F-16 this often happens.

[donavi49]

Because why Boeings and Watermelons are mostly falling. Specifically, F-16 riveted 4600 pieces. Of them actively about 2500 cars. This is more than the air force of most countries (including Russia) entirely, taking into account the BTA and passenger departmental boards.

[maidan.izrailovich]

... F-16 riveted 4600 pieces .....

I know that. And do you consider this an argument in defense of this aircraft?
Everything is relative. Compare.
F-16. Of the 4600 aircraft, 650 were lost in accidents and disasters. Every seventh.
MiG-29. Of 1600 aircraft, 49 are lost in accidents and disasters. Every thirty-second.
As they say, no comment.

[Zeev Zeev]

Compare for the purity of the experiment the number of hours of flight per accident.

[Avior]

Accident is compared by a raid on one accident
You must also consider the operating conditions
In combat accidents will be more

[Incvizitor]

The old ones are nothing to replace, they don’t buy normal, modern ones from the Russian Federation.

[Thrifty]

Purely humanly, I simply express my condolences to the relatives and colleagues of the deceased pilot. ..

[bober1982]

In the comments, the activity is weak, if something like this happened with our plane .........., experts would have given a lot of enthusiasm, up to the requirement to dismiss the entire Air Force command

[V.I.P.]

So is a third world country. They do not shout anywhere that their army is the coolest on the planet earth. Do NOT boast that the aircraft "do not have the same in the world." Well, the plane that was released 40 years ago fell ... But for some reason, in France, Germany, England, Australia, the planes do not fall ... And in China and Japan, there are isolated cases ... And we have both civilian and military , and planes, and helicopters, this is why the activity is different.

[bober1982]

The first one went, expert, ....... excitedly

Quote: V.I.P.

And here civilians, and military, and airplanes, and helicopters are falling, so the activity is different.

[V.I.P.]

No, you need to clap your hands and screech when yelling, when some of our aircraft fell and sent people to the next world ..... Where in the world are so many civilian planes falling and with such victims?

[bober1982]

Quote: V.I.P.

No, you need to clap your hands and screech when yelling, when some of our aircraft fell and sent people to the next world ..... Where in the world are so many civilian planes falling and with such victims?

It begins to enter ecstasy, carries nonsense, now it will start about pension reform ......, or about amendments to the Constitution.

[primala]

F-16 fighter jet crashes in Pakistani capital
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It's only the beginning"...

[g1washntwn]

Reassessing the capabilities of the pilot and / or equipment.

[Magog]

Judging by the video, the pilot lost consciousness. Otherwise, I would try to get the plane out of a steep dive or eject.

[Kushka]

It’s a pity, the pilot is really good - they don’t take others to the parade,
but at least not at the parade.

[novel66]

here it is, shot down by the Indians! it's just a "stab with delayed death" Bruce Lee is so flunked

[bober1982]

What is being done, how is this to be understood? Their plane crashes, and in the comments they’ll hysteria about the crash of our planes (?? !!)

[Shahno]

Quote: maidan.izrailovich

... F-16 riveted 4600 pieces .....

I know that. And do you consider this an argument in defense of this aircraft?
Everything is relative. Compare.
F-16. Of the 4600 aircraft, 650 were lost in accidents and disasters. Every seventh.
MiG-29. Of 1600 aircraft, 49 are lost in accidents and disasters. Every thirty-second.
As they say, no comment.

Adjust for use in conflicts ...

[shadow]

Especially in Iraq in 2003, and in Yugoslavia in 1999.

[Prahlad]

A trifle, but nice!

[Fregate]

For a whole year, the Hindu rocket chased after him and finally caught up.

[Igor Polovodov]

That Estonian rocket was ...

[Vyacheslav p]

It's a pity the pilot, but no plane.

[123456789]

Well, Nesterov’s loop is said! And the fact that the Russian is good not only for the Germans death, but also for the Pakistani, Hindu, Chinese, Vietnamese further everywhere

[Romka47]

I was hoping that the pilot survived, he wanted to mock the adversary’s car, but with the death of the pilot, everything is no longer appropriate, condolences, patience to relatives ..