| It started at 750ft > Observe, orient: Jet still in the clouds, about 750 feet above ground, still in his control, descending glide path, about 800 feet per minute Then brokenness again > About 30 seconds had passed. By then he might have been gliding halfway towards terrain. > He felt the nose of the aircraft tilt upward. He felt a falling sensation. Subtext is that this feels like stalling with only a few hundred feet and a few seconds left. There's no room to recover control surface. There's only so much you can read in so little time
with fallback instruments. Airspeed means squat, climb rate can be unreliable. > Forty-one seconds. Next loop is going to be either nothing happened or ground contact. What to you do. |
Context is I remember reading comment that F35 manual calls for ejection if out of control flight under 6000ft agl. If pilot was at 750ft, it reinforces how little time/margin pilot had to make call and that he probably did everything he can until last minute.