Claude! said:

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aggiehawg said:

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WOW! How did they even manage to eject with the airframes that tangled?

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Quickly and with a lot of expletives.

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And excrement… at least if that were me (lol).

Marvin said:

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Claude! said:

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aggiehawg said:

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WOW! How did they even manage to eject with the airframes that tangled?

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Quickly and with a lot of expletives.

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And excrement… at least if that were me (lol).

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Well that was an expensive little mishap! It's not like those planes aren't needed. Glad the crews made it out.

Marvin said:

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Claude! said:

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aggiehawg said:

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WOW! How did they even manage to eject with the airframes that tangled?

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Quickly and with a lot of expletives.

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And excrement… at least if that were me (lol).

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First you say it, then you do it.

I thought for sure that was ai the first vid i saw. About a miracle all 4 got out and on the ground ok.

When was this? Im in boise, which is close to Mountain Home and it's been insanely windy the last couple of weeks. The further east you go from here in south Idaho the worse the wind can get. I actually had to cancel my trip with my travel trailer this past week (and my rescheduled trip in which I would have left today today) because I was worried about the gusts while driving a route through south Idaho, which would've gone right through Mountain Home. It's 21mph right now with gusts of 30-40. You can hear it on the video, so id not be surprised if the heavy wind played a part in this. Considering we've been having gusts over 40mph off and on recently, at what point would they consider cancelling an airshow because of the wind component?

eta Looks like it was today. Guess I'm out of the loop about this local show, but I would be shocked if the wind wasn't an issue here.

https://mountainhomefss.com/fss-gunfighter-skies-air-show/

techno-ag said:

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Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing!

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Like The Hubs said while on ARF, a crash AT the airport is just a bad landing.

At first I thought they were just mating.

If you pause it right before they eject, you can see the planes are entwined with their noses only a few degrees apart. This appears to have provided just enough space for all to eject safely. I'm amazed the parachutes did not get tangled up in the falling planes or with each other.

TRX said:

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Wow. Glad te see 4 parachutes.

The question now becomes how this is Trumps fault.

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Somebody is angling for a Pulitzer!!!

torrid said:

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If you pause it right before they eject, you can see the planes are entwined with their noses only a few degrees apart. This appears to have provided just enough space for all to eject safely. I'm amazed the parachutes did not get tangled up in the falling planes or with each other.

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It's a miracle that the crew underneath didn't eject into the plane above. They made it by milliseconds.

techno-ag said:

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Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing!

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And when you can use the plane again it's a great landing.

PlaneCrashGuy said:

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techno-ag said:

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Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing!

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username checks out

Same place where this happened in 2003 (mishap during a Thunderbirds show... in this case the altimeter was not set properly to compensate for field elevation). Amazing that all pilots walked away from both incidents.

There are several retired F-18 pilots on my youtube subscribe list that will have videos out on this soon. It will be interesting to hear from them what they think.

akaggie05 said:

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Same place where this happened in 2003 (mishap during a Thunderbirds show... in this case the altimeter was not set properly to compensate for field elevation). Amazing that all pilots walked away from both incidents.

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Video from the cockpit during that flight...

akaggie05 said:

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Same place where this happened in 2003 (mishap during a Thunderbirds show... in this case the altimeter was not set properly to compensate for field elevation). Amazing that all pilots walked away from both incidents.

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This is a WILD picture

An EA-18G costs around $80 million a copy. That was a $160 million crash.

sanangelo said:

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An EA-18G costs around $80 million a copy. That was a $160 million crash.

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More with all the gear installed, likely. And, we can't buy any more; Boeing has received the final production SH rear fuselages from Northrop Grumman. 10% of the structure is modified/strengthened vs. an ordinary 'F' model super hornet, and all the electronics/pods cost a fortune (fortunately not carried I think for the air show performance).

Honestly, USN shouldn't even be using these for air shows, imho.

That was very odd looking. Amazing the pilots could eject.

This looks like an overtaking maneuver from the 6 o'clock high. If that's the case it's the exact same move that took out Texas Raiders.

Figured Blancolirio would have a video out by now, but saw this one.

And he's confirming it was a blind "belly up" rejoin. The rejoining pilot FUBAR big time.

My cousin's son is military doctor who was volunteering at the medical tent. He treated 2 pilots. One had a broken leg, uncertain if the 2nd pilot did or not.

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fc2112 said:

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To the boys at Mac who designed that ejection system.

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Martin Baker.

Yesterday, two Boeing E/A-18G Growlers collided mid-air during an airshow demonstration at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho.

All four pilots successfully ejected using the Martin-Baker US14A (NACES) Ejection Seat.#EngineeringForLife pic.twitter.com/MbEqOEyegF

— Martin-Baker (@MB_EjectEject) May 18, 2026

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seat is Martin-Baker.

system is McDonnell-Douglas.