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Bill Elliott Talks About His F-16 Crash
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 พ.ค. 2019
- Bill Elliott spoke to The Scene Vault about his F-16 crash in November 1987.
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I was there at Dobbins that day. I was a member of the 116th Tac Fighter Wing, the unit flying the F-15s. We heard we lost a plane and it was the one our Wing commander was flying. We were then told that the F-16 carrying Bill was limping back, so we went out to the flight line to watch it come in. I can promise you it was a sight to behold. No one could believe that aircraft could stay in the air. It was amazing no one was killed.
Why was Bill's ejection seat not charged? How can someone be allowed to fly in an F-16 doing combat maneuvers against another jet with no way to eject?
Also, did the pilot of Bill's F-16 know Bill's seat was not functional?
@@Docjonel I have no idea why the seat wasn’t charged. The unit I was in had the F-15s. The plane Bill was in was from a different base. Obviously someone dropped the ball.
This is the stuff that makes YT comment section great :) Thx for sharing!
@Jackson P. Storm I couldn’t agree more.
@@Docjonel Nobody knew at the time or it wouldn't have flown.
Holy crap! The pilot has to hand him a note to tell him they might have to eject? Then he finds out his ejector seat wasn't charged? That is one seriously crazy story. He was a very lucky man that day.
AMAZING!! Love interviewers that keep their mouth shut and let the people talk! Great job!
For some reason I don't remember this story but, wow. Bill Elliot always comes across as genuine.
Elliott people. ELLIOTT, not Elliot.
"Somebody was looking after me that day." Yeah, the pilot flying the jet and doing everything he could to keep you alive.
And angels. Had to have been angels.
The Blue Angels are Navy jets!😂😂
Wasn’t the pilot he’s the one who got him into the mess. And then who ever was in charge of that jet for letting a celebrity fly in faulty equipment.
I miss the 80s drivers and race era!
It was a golden age in the '80s and even through the early-mid '90s was great. Haven't watched really since Dale Sr. passed in 2001 I think it was.
I was going to say maybe the 90's....but i have always been a Gordon fan...and with him beating and bagging with the good ol' boys...was some exciting stuff
@@nedaCFilms That's about when I stopped watching
I am really glad everything went your way that day because you have given race fans so many awesome moments on the track. I am a lifelong fan of yours and now Chase. I still watch taped races that you win. See you in the next interview.
Wow! Cup fan for decades, I don't believe I have ever heard that story!
Fascinating set of circumstances ... a couple thoughts come to mind;
1.) This illustrates what a 𝘮𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩 star Bill was at that time.
2.) If this were to happen today, heads would've rolled, careers would've ended, fines would've been levied, lawsuits would've been filed, ... etc., etc.
Damn, so thankful no one was seriously injured.
God knew his son was gonna be the 2020 champ, can't have him dying
*Amen*
And yet his 'plan' for thousands of kids EVERY DAY OF EVERY WEEK is to let them die of hunger and or illness.
God likes to help the rich. While making the poor suffer with bad weather, bad germs and virus and bad jobs. Jesus is a swindler pretending to be good, while producing all bad things..
Maybe your thinking of the wrong god, you should try not to be so negative
@@jeffex72 You have to be realistic, or illusory. Im realistiic. God has backstab most christians with the covid 19...
Really Glad Bill landed safely 🙏 I still have my # 11 mug when he drove for Junior Johnson.
Glad he survived and made chase to carry on the bad ass elliott name
@@manster546 1st driver to win the Winston million 2 Daytona 500s a championship of his own won most popular driver I think 16 straight years and oh yea he's in the HoF. Yepper he had nothing to do with establishing the Elliott name.
@@manster546 ahh yes. A casual.
Lol, Ernie could make some horses though...! The whole bunch was/is a CLASS act!
What a weird comment lol
@@manster546 You need to do your homework.
What a story! Thanks for sharing :)
Elliot was my favorite NASCAR driver. When he started winning he didn’t have Ford sponsorship. He did more with less.
Can't remember much from that era except the sounds of the V8s and how awesome the Stock Cars looked but that era to me was best
Mine too. I was at Darlington when he finished 2nd to Bobby Allison in the Melling oil ford. Been a fan ever since,Great looking car. Plus my Pops family is from north Ga.
Then you should know it is Elliott, not Elliot.
@@dartmaster501 and if you had any common sense for fucksake you should know that T or double T everyone knows whom their referring too. You should also know that everyone hates a pain in the ass and wanna-be know it alls.
Wow, haven't heard this story. God is my Copilot ain't no joke.
If God is your copilot change seats
I had heard legends about this... My all-time favorite game show host died in a plane crash in 2006. Very glad the first racer I was ever a fan of didn't suffer the same fate...
Who was that??
@@emergencylowmaneuvering7350 Peter Tomarken.
@@Ultimate23Dragon Too bad. And he was doing an Angel Flight. Helping sick people. Dam god..
Always my favorite racer of the 1980's....besides The King.
I’ve never been an Elliot fan, but I am now. He’s right, someone was looking out for him that day. It wasn’t his time. He was put on this earth to do good things.
I've been a Chase fan for a few years, looks like now I'm also a Bill fan as well😂
Why can't people spell his name? ELLIOTT (TWO Ts).
Awesome Bill from Dawsonville!
Back when "Nascar" drivers had" Nascar" Southern good old boy accents. Love these guys .
I had never heard this story before.
I soiled my underwear just hearing the story.
Weird.
Bill Elliot and Buddy Baker were my favorites growing up.
Was a golden era. Bill was a HUGE part of it. Legend.
Considering he won a race after cutting an oil line, only to make up 2.5 miles under green, he was a racing god.
WHAT???😳 You’re telling me that MY ejection seat WAS NOT CHARGED...and would NOT have worked....?? I didn’t need to hear that!
That jet crashed about 5 miles from my house
The Man the myth the legend and always my favorite driver
Awesome story from Awesome Bill from Dawsonville. I always like Elliott as I thought he was a pretty clean racer compared to some of the others there during his time.
Elliott (two Ts)
@@dartmaster501 Indeed. Thanks.
Misleading title: The F-15 crashed, the damage F-16 that Elliott was in landed safely. Given that ejector seat detail at the end though, if F-16 had crashed, not sure Bill would be here to talk about it. Lucky day for all involved.
Uhh it the f-16 still hit the f-15. And the definition of crash is to violently hit an obstacle or another vehicle while in a vehicle. Thus the f-16 did crash it was just able to fly back to base.
@@zacharyradford5552 Whenever the term “crash” is used for airplanes, it’s synonymous with plane meeting ground. When planes hit each other, it’s typically identified as a collision, and in this case a mid-air collision. Hell, let’s take it one step further, since the incident revolves around a hillbilly NASCAR racer, why don’t we just use the term “wrecked”. The title could be changed to “An F-15 wrecked the F-16 that Elliott was in, and subsequently crashed - Elliott’s plane managed not to crash”. You might want to check with the NTSB on when they used the term “crash” when it comes to airplanes.
Those were some of the best days of FORD/NASCAR racing for me. Bill came from 2 laps down to win one of the four major races to win the Winston Million! This is the first time hearing of the F16 crash...WOW!!!
It wasn't our day to loose such an ambassador to our sport. Thank you God!!!
I wasn't aware of any of this! Wow! Crazy story
Me neither. First I have heard of it.
Never heard of this. Amazing.
His guardian angel had it all worked out before Mr.Elliot got into the jet. Praise the Lord. P.S. Bill Elliot is my favorite driver for many reasons other than driving skills.
Love those old Nascar Thunderbird
I just got this video in my recommendations. Kind of crazy how much history would have changed if the worst came to happen on that day. It was God's plan for Bill to survive on that day.
Amazing....and always have to love the old great drivers of nascar....
I'm a huge fan of Bills and that is scary as hell
With the way Elliot describes the damage to that jet after getting on the ground had to be a hand full. That had to be one hot pilot that landed that bird. Elliot is right when he explained seeing a lot of things in his life but looking up and seeing that jet above his canopy was something way beyond his prior experiences. When I was in the USAF We used to fly completely tucked under the center line of a wingman’s jet following his maneuvers and switch positions to do the same. The top of the canopy was only a couple of feet from the belly of the jet it was wild.
ElliotT (two Ts).
Were you a pilot?
@@sidv4615 GIB
@@natural-born_pilot what's a GIB?
How did I not know this?!?
Oh my gosh. 🤯 Yes, the good Lord was watching after you and all those involved that day.
Imagine being for a ride in an aircraft like that, having an incident, and the pilot ejects out and you're just left sitting there. That would be a horrifying ride.
If the pilot ejected and you didn’t you’d be fried but that won’t happen because in the ejection sequence your always the first to go.
Now this is why they call him awesome Bill.😎
Bill and the Air Force were very lucky. Could you imagine if NASCAR's most popular driver would have been killed? The Air Force would have never lived that down.
Air travel wasn’t kind to NASCAR greats. It got Allen and Davey.
And nearly Jack Roush.
@@Daniel-Weaver jack roush nearly got himself
@@deaf2819 Cale & jr. Johnson had one too.
Ricky Hendrick as well.
I like Bill Eliot, but not once did I hear him say thank God for one of the best pilots in the air. Military pilots are well trained and know how to make split second decision. He saved Bill's life by flying a wounded bird back to base. And yes I was a air force fighter pilot back in dessert storm. Thank you fellow pilot for saving you and Bill's life.
Yours is the worst version of his last name, Eliot. It is Elliott.
@@dartmaster501 who gives a shit unless your a turd!
Earnhart was in the other plane
Awesome Bill from Dawsonville.
What!! The ejection seat was not "charged?" As an ex-marine pilot, I am dumbfounded. That can't be right...can it?
Used to work on the ACES II seats that are in the 15's and 16's...you had to "arm" the seats by pulling several pins so pulling the handle would actually fire the seat. An experienced pilot would never miss that step, whoever assisted him getting strapped in should have armed the seat...
@@AAbleFishingCharters As a helo pilot my egress consisted of jumping out while I cursed the corp for not issuing me a parachute! Lol!
@@AAbleFishingCharters Not sure what "not charged" means but don't think it was a safety pin still in the seat. The 16's have had a few issues with the seat as of recent incident a few months ago.
Debriefs after an incident are brutal. They make you feel like a criminal.
Yes , they are. Went through a Debrief after a UH1H crash.
Aunt that the truth! I scraped a tail on landing rollout due to a wind gust (Class C). Not fun! Thankfully, that’s the worst I personally ever had to deal with. A few friends weren’t so lucky. Couldn’t imagine going through a Class A. 😳
I was on UH1H that went into counter rotation after the tail shaft/rotor broke in mid flight during parachute drop. Huey crashed just after we exited the aircraft.
230,,,
@@dannycalley7777 ???
debrief: i dunno, i wasn’t flying. now thats funny there i don’t care who you are.
Fastest speed ever in NASCAR by Bill before plates and compression limits way back in 1987. 212.809MPH
WOW...That was a F-16 from my Base while I was stationed there. I was at Hill AFB from Dec. 1984 to Feb. 1988. It was probably from the 388th TFW Hill AFB.
Wow, incredible story !
The Angel's were helping the pilot carry on must've known seat wasn't charged wasn't ur time Million dollar Bill thank God good man awesome racer...
The Anaheim Angels? Too bad they weren’t paying attention a few moments earlier before two jets collided.
@@TH-camSafetyTroll Let it go Indiana.
I love bill Elliott and his son chase
The aircraft I worked on ejection seat had 7 pins with red flags (remove before flight) connected together by a thin metal cable that kept the seat from being ejected while not in flight. You couldn’t miss them.
As part of preflight the status of the seat would have been checked also.
But people were involved so stuff like this happens.
Iamlukie, sounds like an F-4 Phantom seat.
The red ‘REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT’ flagged pin is to safe up the seat and has nothing to do with the seat being charged or not.
@@natural-born_pilot the seat can only be “charged” with the seat taken completely out of the aircraft. The pins do not allow the seat to be placed it the armed state. You have to remove them to arm the seat.
Bill was definitely flying on Angel’s wings that day. Unbelievable!!!
A real fan knows the phrase : Awesome Bill from Dawsonville
Awesome chase from the same place
@@wadeperkins5070 😆
Awsome Bill from Dawsonville. Man I miss you driving. One of my all time favorites and would love to hear a tell all of how in the world you made that t bird fly like it did. I never heard the story of the f16 crash but am proud you admit it and are humble in your recognition the Good Lord was looking out for tou
wow crazy stuff , I was at the Riverside Race. Had recently bought my new house and moved from Riverside to Moreno Valley , where the track was located , which until 1984 was Sunnymead . Didn't know of the F-16 crash.
Awesome Bill from Dawsonville. The tradition hopefully lives on.
North Georgia speak is it's own thing....and not necessarily a bad thing
the old saw 'he came within inches' can be taken literally
Awesome Bill from Dawsonville
I started watching in the 90’s. Well passed Ole Bill’s prime but for some reason 10 year old me loved that red Mcdonalds car and driver. I rooted for him every sunday. Think i may have only witnessed him win 1 or 2 races but that was ok with me.
Take off that chevy suit
I know ....he’s a Ford legend. Those Coors & Bud Fords
His Son is doing it in Chevy though
sponsor = $$$$
Never heard of this before....
Sounds like the pilot forgot to say the pilot's prayer before he took off with Bill...: "Dear lord,bless these pistons and please don't let me screw up." Yes it even applies to jets.....It's the thought/idea that counts
I flew in the USAF for 5 years... and I never heard that before. There IS a pilot's prayer... but that's sure not it.
@@maxsdad538 My next door neighbor was a B-17 pilot and few 80+ missions to successful conclusion.I have imaged his war photo album.He told me he said that prayer before every engine start up.Sorry but you never having heard of it does not mean it isn't true.
Followed NASCAR and bill flew to talladega had lunch with bill in Early 90. Never herd this . Unreal
even the closed captions cant understand him.
Dawsonville, GA. for ya
I did not know this crazy!
I’d have to tell the CO that either I go right back up on another F-16, WITH a charged ejector seat of course, or ‘Why I just don’t know what I might say under the utter interrogation I’m going to endure by the media.’ There’s NO way I could let a bada** experience like that end by going sideways. I’d want it to end on a good note.
But respect to that Falcon pilot. That had to be a wrestling match trying to bring her home relatively safely. 👍🏼
Wow bet the Air Force enquiry was damning... ejection seat not charged? 😳 mission planning? 😳
Bill Elliot
Had Close Call
simple and to the point.
You had a damn good pilot and God as a co-pilot is why that plane made it home
God is never a copilot, he’s always the PILOT
Bill is the reason why I drive Fords
Already drove Fords as Gramps Henry's next door neighbor & 1st apprentice. He was 1st to drive Henry's 2nd racecar & FMC Unit #1, both as Henry trotted alongside admiring their handiwork! We've driven Fords since 1901 plus Gramps, Dad, & both Henrys toured Detroit area in 3-Motor model 3-5-28 Gramps' B-Day! It really flew!
Not sure why Bill has maxi pad emblems all over his driver suit. Elliot has always driven Fords and dodge a couple years don’t recall him ever driving a Chevrolet.
I looked it up, it turns out that they later fixed the f-16 that Bill was flying in and returned it to service. Then 4 years later in 1991 it crashed in Utah killing both pilots.
Wow crazy that everyone lived...
Where is this VIDEO Bill Speaks of?
Yikes...
It's not too many people who can say they've survived a mid-air collision in a fast jet...
As for civilians who can say that, there's probably not one hand's worth...
Back in Bill's hey day, I attended 13 NASCAR races a year. We'd do Daytona, then Richmond, Rockingham, North Wilksboro, Charlotte, Darlington, Talladega, Pocono, and Wilmington and a repeat of the spring season, though it was now summer and late fall. In field camping all the way, except for short tracks.
Racing became too corporate, the France family got greedy IMO, and we as a group stopped going.
Today's drivers don't have the personality as the 1980-1990's drivers did.
Now with NASCAR becoming political, stick a fork in them, they're done, along with the NBA, NFL and MLB.
You know our good lord had that day.
Back in the 80's, an Israeli F15 had a mid air with. A4 Sky raider. The right wing was ripped off the F15 and it continued the fly and land
That's unbelievably irresponsible that his ejection seat wasn't checked out and good to go. What the fuck.
Was the pin still in on the lever?
Something about NASCAR and flying that just don't mix.
Yeah, those drivers really aren't meant to get airborne in any way.
Wow! I never knew. ........honest. Thank God. ........geeze, that & a "Bum" seat.
Be safe 🦊
Wow, what a Story!
wheres the video! of incident
Man Riverside was a lot of peoples worst night mare. Gurney ... Shelby said his worst wreck was there.. Didn't know about the pit road incident for Elliot's crew.
Wow, glad it worked out...he is one of my favorites! Hell, he thought that was normal...just rubbing and banging. He probably told them to put some duct tape on it and get back out there! Lol! Go Bill!
Awesome Bill Elliott was a beast
Back when NASCAR wasn’t pussified
Very lucky man.Keep your feet on the ground 👍
Bill had a great shot at the Cup Championship in 87, but it wasn't to be, must of used up all his good luck in this F-16 incident 😉
I remember my Father had a good friend that he worked with & his friend was a huge Elliott fan, even had a Thunderbird painted up to mirror Bill's Coors Cup car, #9 on it & everything! It was he that told Pop & I ( couple 2-3 day's later ) about this F-16 thing & I recall him saying "no serious injury, so it's all good" to which my Father replied "All good my ass, what about those damn jet plane's, WE PAYED FOR THEM you know!!" 😡 LOL!
My Dad was seriously old-school bout such shenanigans, as far as he was concerned Bill Elliott, nor any other civilian had any business being up there foolin around in one of his "America tax payer's" aircraft! 😆👍 RIP Pop, I sure do miss ya 🙏 ✝️
He had a damn good pilot!!!
Bill “had close call” Elliot
Does anybody know if you can see the video of the actual plane crash or what the F-16 look like after it landed
Google it maybe?
Wow... The 9:14 mark......
Wow, don't remember this one.
Awesome bill...love him
I'm 27 an he was my favorite
Bill's Ejection seat was not charged !!!
i would have went straight down and bought a lotto ticket for real lol
I think all the luck was used up.
Except you couldn't buy lottery tickets then in Georgia