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Two Iranian Pilots Reportedly Die as They Are Ejected From F-5 Plane Before Take-off https://sputniknews.com/military/202106011083048245-two-iranian-pilots-reportedly-die-as-they-are-ejected-from-f-5-plane-before-take-off/ According to IRIB, the incident took place on Tuesday morning at the Dezful air force base in the southwestern province of Khuzestan. Two members of the crew of an Iranian F-5 two-seater jet were killed on 1 June as a result of the abnormal activation of the ejection seats, a...

Gear up and no runway in front of you, the option of putting the aircraft on the ground is gone. >> with no thrust from his only engine, hut has only one option. >> when that bird went in the engine, i knew i had to eject and i was just not looking forward to doing it. the ejection system is designed to get your body away from the crash site. youre not expected to get out of the situation unscathed. its a very violent thing. i know pretty well every situation where two people have ejected out of...

The jets engine. >> when you have the landing gear up and no runway in front of you, all of the thrust is gone. >> with no thrust from his only engine, hut has only one option. >> when that bird went in the engine, i knew i had to eject and i was just not looking forward to doing it. the ejection system is designed to get your body away from the crash site. youre not expected to get out of the situation unscathed. its a very violent thing. i know pretty well every situation where two people have...

Of you, all of the thrust is gone. >> with no thrust from his only engine, hut has only one option. >> when that bird went in the engine, i knew i had to eject and i was just not looking forward to doing it. the ejection system is designed to get your body away from the crash site. youre not expected to get out of the situation unscathed. its a very violent thing. i know pretty well every situation where two people have injected out of the same plane. at least one of them is hurt, if not fatally...

Launch test. that is in line with what were hearing on the ground here in that north korea wants to have a very, very strong show of force today. this is a major anniversary for them, the anniversary of workers party foundation 70 years ago so this under water launch would be similar to propaganda photos in may shows kim jong un showing a missile coming from under water. there was no data from an actual launch from the photos scene. it was believed that was just a test of the ejection system. th...

Still worrisome? >> yes, first, we see the white that indicates the missile did penetrate the water. and later, we see that the missile fired its engine. so this, to me, indicates that there was a successful missile test. it was not just a test of the ejection system. >> reporter: an official says north korea could have a fully operational submarine with a missile within four or five years, even if this test wasnt all if was claimed to be, north korea could still eventually put nuclear warheads ...

Rocked by what happens next. a single bird gets sucked into the jets engine. >> when you have a landing gear up and no runway in front of you, the option of putting the aircraft back down on the ground when you lost all struts is gone. >> with no struts from his only engine, hutt has only one option. >> when that bird went in the engine, i knew i had to eject, and i was just not looking forward to doing it. the ejection system is designed to get your pink body away from the crash site. youre not...

>> when you have the landing gear up and no runway in front of you the option of putting the aircraft back down on the ground when its lost its thrust is gone. >> with no thrust from his only engine, hut has only one option. >> when that bird went in the engine, i knew i had to eject and i was just not looking forward to doing it. the ejection system is designed to get your body away from the crash site. youre not expected to get out of the situation unscathed. its a very violent thing. i know p...

It. the other issue is the debris. if you find the plane debris on the surface and we have reports of debris but we dont know if it is connected at all to this case. if you do find the debris you can probably get some sense of how the currents may have taken the debris from where the plane actually went down. >> let me ask you a primitive question. why dont they make the black box floatable? these planes go down. that is why we are looking for the black box. they go down in the water. if they we...

More the size of new jersey, something like that then you have a better chance of finding it. the other issue is the debris. if you find the plane debris on the surface and we have reports of debris but we dont know if it is connected at all to this case. if you do find the debris you can probably get some sense of how the currents may have taken the debris from where the plane actually went down. >> let me ask you a primitive question. why dont they make the black box floatable? these planes go...