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[–]Memorexem0 points
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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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[–] Memorexem 0 points 3 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.