Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about an old guy who was sent on a fighter jet flight as a gift and ended up getting ejected out of the plane!
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00:00A French pensioner received a retirement gift he'll never forget when his colleagues decided
00:25to send him on a fighter jet experience for the day oh wow the once-in-a-lifetime experience
00:33swiftly became a please don't ever make me do that again experience help when an unfortunate
00:40series of events ended in the 64 year old accidentally ejecting himself from the plane
00:46you can't do that no like you did you not blow the whole plane up i think those like ejection
00:54seats can kill you kill you yes an employee at a defense manufacturer oh
01:01was treated to a retirement gift that would see him reluctantly board a two-seat rafael b french
01:13air force fighter jet no no no in eastern france like he didn't really want to do it no the unnamed
01:20senior who had never expressed a passion for flying why did he do this on a fighter jet
01:27was unprepared to say the least what happened next is listed full in a report
01:34so this pilot carried out a 47 degree takeoff with a load factor of around 4 g's this somewhat
01:45alarming maneuver was then compounded by the pilot leveling off the plane creating a negative load
01:51factor of about minus 0.6 g's something they assured the old guy would never happen to him
01:56yep that would have made you and amazingly go right to your head boarded the plane himself
02:03meaning installation checks went unchecked so he underwent the ordeal loose in his seat
02:09i'm bouncing around and his helmet and oxygen mask were on incorrectly
02:14this guy trying to kill this guy yeah yeah they tried he tried to cling for dear life to the nearest
02:20solid object oh god yep as it turned out it was the ejector handle so sometimes they're down by your
02:28legs and sometimes they're up or they're both i'm guessing he pulled the ones that are down by your
02:34butt just pulled them in the box but i thought when one guy pulled that everyone went i just thought
02:42it was each scene well i don't know though it is supposed to amazingly the pilot stayed in his seat
02:49because normally both go but this poor old guy won't find an illness he was flung from the aircraft
02:56his loose fitting oxygen mask and helmet also flew oh well sure yeah he's i mean they're flying at
03:01hundreds and hundreds of miles an hour so now in the half empty plane the pilot knows he's got to
03:06make a swift return to the air base all while thinking his seat could eject at any time yeah
03:12yeah because the ejection system as you mentioned normally i thought one guy did it both out yep
03:18luckily whatever happened the pilot was in place long enough to land and safely evacuate
03:25and amazingly the old guy landed without injury so it just must have been deployed or whatever yes
03:32must have just been the scariest moment of his life well that was more than i bargained for
03:36imagine though he imagine he ejected both of them and the the whole plane was gone
03:44like he almost destroyed a military jet it's really stupid the whole thing incredibly stupid a report
03:54looking into this concluded that peer pressure and poor preparation meant the margins of decision left
03:59to the passenger to possibly refuse the flight were perceived as almost non-existent i can imagine much
04:05more going wrong for him it's like they listed off stuff they're like his shoes were untied
04:09yeah i didn't have his coat on on the way yeah can i go to the john before no no okay i'm in here
04:17yeah he you know of course had soiled himself oh i bet but other than that amazingly didn't suffer
04:25any serious injuries that made the news that he soiled himself that makes it even worse
04:31poor thing yeah dude it'd be hard not to soil yourself ejecting without realizing you were gonna
04:39eject like i understand like something's wrong like eject they're like eject eject eject you're like oh god
04:44here we go but imagine just imagine just hitting a button and you launch through the canopy no no
04:52you need more preparation oh my god you need to know where the buttons are i hope that it plays this
04:59every time there's an ejection i hate to think about goose but yes goose
05:07this guy could have easily been goose what a terrible moment for that old guy how old was he again
05:14he was uh 64 okay that was his retirement gift bad gift everyone it's a new gift that was pretty
05:23mean bad gift my diarrhea made the news happy 64 retirement your diarrhea made the news yep that's
05:34what you get i mean the one time you've ever been mentioned on the news it was because of your
05:38diarrhea right yeah yeah it just must have been a funny moment when he was up in the air and it's
05:43just him in the sky oh boy not ideal what's happening what did i hit a bad day for that guy a great
05:56gift but amazingly thanks guys amazingly alive there's no way i can't i can't imagine how
06:08he's lucky everything just automatically that's it rolls out oh my god
06:13you