23 Jul 10: CF-18 Crash @ Lethbridge Airport

[Good2Golf]

Ladies and gents, Capt. Bews ejected from a cf-18 using a Naces seat, SJU-17/B not mk.10 its more of a equivalent of the mk.14....and for those people who feel free to comment on something they think they know something about, but really do not. Leave your flight simulators at home and try and join to fly the real deal. then your opinions and comments may change.

Perhaps you should take some of your own advice here.  Your attitude in your first (to this username) two posts comes across as less than constructive or informative to the site and its members.

Let's say you are perhaps an ALSE-qualified 514 AVN tech who works the new NACES.  You could explain to the members here how the current CF-18 fleet has in fact both the older M-B Mk.10 seat, generally in the Cold Lake squadrons, and that it is the majority of the Bagotville aircraft that have already received the SJU-17 NACES.  That would have been more informative, wouldn't it?

However, since you note in your profile that you are a 409 TFS technician (you don't specify AVN, AVS or ACS), it would seem as though there is less likelihood of you working daily on the SJU-17....this is the part about your having been better off to provide some generic info on CF-18 ejection seats than taking the snarky attitude you did.

Welcome (back) to Milnet.ca, and hopefully you give consideration to your conduct on the site.  You have drawn attention to yourself in but a few scant hours, and we will oblige in keeping an eye on you.  First and last informal warning.

Milnet.ca Staff

 

[observor 69]

"However, since you note in your profile that you are a 409 TFS technician (you don't specify AVN, AVS or ACS),"

Please God not AVS !

 

[SupersonicMax]

You could explain to the members here how the current CF-18 fleet has in fact both the older M-B Mk.10 seat, generally in the Cold Lake squadrons, and that it is the majority of the Bagotville aircraft that have already received the SJU-17 NACES.  That would have been more informative, wouldn't it?

In all fairness G2G, all seats are now NACES.  No more Mk.10.

 

[Good2Golf]

In all fairness G2G, all seats are now NACES.  No more Mk.10.

Thanks for the update, Max. 

At the time, there were still a few Mk.10's in YOD, right?

Regards
G2G

 

[SupersonicMax]

G2G, I believe so, but I'm not 100% positive.  All Bagotville Jets were modded at the time.

 

[The Bread Guy]

Next step:  <a href="http://is.gd/i2D01">the clean up</a>

.... DEFENCE CONSTRUCTION CANADA (DCC) - #AC119506 - Soils Remediation of a CF18 Crash Site, Lethbridge County Airport -- The work includes, but is not necessarily limited to, the supply of labour, material, supervision and equipment necessary to remove, transport and dispose of approximately 900 tonnes of impacted surface soils (&lt;1.0m) at a licensed/permitted facility and the restoration of the site to pre-crash conditions …. The estimated cost for this opportunity is in the order of $69,000.00 …. The tender closing date is: December 14, 2010 ….”

 

[The Bread Guy]

CBC.ca on the remediation tender call:

It was an amazing escape. Now for the big clean up. In a government tender posted today, Defence Construction Canada is looking for people to help dig up and replace 900 tonnes of contaminated soil from the site where a CF-18 fighter jet crashed last summer in Lethbridge, Alta. On July 23, Canadian Forces Capt. Brian Bews successfully ejected from his fighter jet seconds before it crashed to the ground and exploded. Bews had been practicing a low-speed, low-altitude pass for the Alberta International Airshow at the Lethbridge Airport when he ran into trouble. Photos and video of the accident show the pilot narrowly missing the enormous fireball as his parachute floated to the airstrip. Bews suffered compression fractures to three vertebrae and was expected to make a full recovery. The government estimates it will cost roughly $69,000 to clean up the crash site.

Remember, you read it here first!

 

[Rifleman62]

http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/When_Vacations_Attack/Video/Air_Show_Crash_In_Canada

The story of a family visit to Lethbridge for the airshow was shown on the  "When Vacations Attack" program, The Travel Channel 17 Jan 11. The father had a big zoom lens camera. One picture shows the right engine (as posted previously) out.

 

[Occam]

The final report on the Flight Safety Investigation is out - engine malfunction it is.

http://www.rcaf-arc.forces.gc.ca/dfs-dsv/nr-sp/index-eng.asp?id=11159

I've always found these accident investigations fascinating, in a strange way...the level of information that the investigators can gather from whatever parts are left over is astounding.

 

[jpjohnsn]

The final report on the Flight Safety Investigation is out - engine malfunction it is.

http://www.rcaf-arc.forces.gc.ca/dfs-dsv/nr-sp/index-eng.asp?id=11159

I've always found these accident investigations fascinating, in a strange way...the level of information that the investigators can gather from whatever parts are left over is astounding.

I heard from an imaging tech that one of the cool upshots of the newer digital cameras is the built-in GPS units.  You can take good hi-res shots of the wreckage in place and the camera will geo-tag the location of each shot.  You can use those coordinates to map out the scene faster and more accurately.