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[–] Memorexem 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Looked like a landing gear malfunction. Doubt he'd know about it, until approach or if something happened when putting it up.

On approach, he may be going too slow/low to eject. I know there's constraints on when they can use it, and I know they hit several Gs when they do, so it's probably not a picnic to do or explain.

Add to that it's a ~$20M plane, if you can bring it in to do repairs instead of wasting it, they probably try to have you land so they can just repair instead of rebuild.

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[–] NoRagrets 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Pilots, was it brave, stupid, or good practice not to have ejected here?

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[–] tippyc 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Not a pilot, but that looks like a controlled landing to me.

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[–] HWY__395 [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I'm no pilot, but I think it's a combo of stupidity and confidence.

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[–] chryseos-geckota ago 

Gotta also think where he was and how much fuel he had. Say he had limited fuel left and couldn't get to a safe area to let his plane crash.

There's probably a procedure involved in how to handle a stuck landing gear situation.

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[–] NoRagrets 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I was coming from the assumption that this was during take off and there was a malfunction, and I would assume crash landing a plane with a full fuel tanks is suicide.
A lot of other people seem to be of the opinion that this a landing at the end of a flight.
I've perhaps made too many wild, misinformed assumptions in this case.

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[–] HWY__395 [S] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

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[–] FIADSH 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I seem to remember that this kind of thing happened during the F-16 flight testing / qualifications.
He landed it (yes, it was a male), they repaired the scratches, and it was back up in air the next day.
Sorry, to lazy to look it up and gotta get to work soon.