Warzone/The Drive: Code Brown As This F-4 Phantom Nearly Collides With A Mosque's Minaret
The head-up display footage is a reminder of just how fast things can go from calm to terrifying in the fighter flying business.
Flying fighter aircraft at low-level may be one of the world's ultimate e-ticket rides, but it is not without its fair share of dangers. Case in point, the video below, which I first saw on Twitter a couple of months ago, but didn't save it. I finally hunted it down again to share it with our readers.
From what I can piece together, it shows the head-up display (HUD) footage from an upgraded Turkish F-4 Phantom. All seems to be well until seemingly out of nowhere a large mosque appears. The jet pitches up at the very last moment, just narrowly missing its towering minarets, one of which was dead-on in the line of flight of the Turkish Phantom. It is truly a terrifying moment to behold, although the crew's reaction was astonishingly lighthearted.
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WNU Editor: The video quality is not great. But you can tell that this is one close call.
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