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[redelitev6]

Not a lot of intelligence to be gleaned from that footage. It kind of just fell off the end of the ship 

Looks like he tried to set off in 3rd gear ? 

[BazaJT]

It'll have been the crank sensor that packed in

[omegod]

It'll have been the crank sensor that packed in

Probably the oval shaped one for that year 

[LC0112G]

I was super impressed with the cool timing of the point to eject by the pilot.

It's not yet clear if the ejection was pilot or plane initiated.

The F-35B (The jump jet version that the UK have stupidly ordered) has an automatic ejector seat. If the plane detects a failure in the lift fan at slow speeds it can 'spit it's dummy out'. This is because there are two big columns of 'lift' air - one from the lift fan immediately behind the cockpit, and a second from the normal jet pipe nozzle that swivels to face downwards. If the lift fan fails, then the single remaining jet thrust from the rear of the plane will cause it to flip arse over cockpit quicker than the pilot can react and eject - think of a £100M Catherine wheel. Chances are the plane would be upside down by the time the ejector seat left the cockpit, and the pilot will make a nasty splat as he hits the deck/ground. So the computer times everything and chucks the seat out of the plane at the right moment - hopefully.

[LC0112G]

Not a lot of intelligence to be gleaned from that footage. It kind of just fell off the end of the ship 

Perhaps not, but that isn't really the point. Someone thought it was ok to film the ship-borne monitoring systems on their personal mobile phone - that's bad enough. But to then send that film to someone off the ship whilst it was still at sea, who then posted it up on social media.....

So many security issues there that whoever did it probably shouldn't be making plans to do anything for the next several years.

[Varche]

That is really interesting. The incident including how it was recovered would make a great documentary. Sadly it will never be made.

[Kevin Wood]

I was super impressed with the cool timing of the point to eject by the pilot.

I was quite surprised it took him until then to realise he wasn't going flying today looking at the way it was ambling towards the end of the ramp.

[ronnyd]

Perhaps he thought that he'd rather ditch in the sea than on the flight deck.

[Kevin Wood]

Perhaps he thought that he'd rather ditch in the sea than on the flight deck.

Does rather beg the question of why he didn't just stop.. unless the aircraft had other ideas?

[Doctor Gollum]

Perhaps he thought that he'd rather ditch in the sea than on the flight deck.

Does rather beg the question of why he didn't just stop.. unless the aircraft had other ideas?

A320 demonstrator crash being a case in point

[Sir Tigger KC]

Perhaps he thought that he'd rather ditch in the sea than on the flight deck.

Does rather beg the question of why he didn't just stop.. unless the aircraft had other ideas?

It makes you wonder to what extent the pilots of these jets are just passengers. 

Press the big green button for Go! 

[Doctor Gollum]

There's an industry joke about the only two living things in the cockpit being a pilot and a fierce dog...

The pilot is there to put the passengers at ease and the dog is there to bite the pilot if he tries to touch anything

[Shackeng]

I was super impressed with the cool timing of the point to eject by the pilot.

Some have auto eject if certain parameters not met. Not sure if this is one.
Edit, I see that has already been mentioned.

[Varche]

US has just recovered their similar plane that went into the South China sea after a poor landing  think.

12,400 foot of water. Good job they have a towing hook that the submersible attached to!