E-8 AWACS Air Refueling gone wrong

The plane was cockblocked. XD

Typical of the dumb yanks, this is why we don't want you flying over the UK, you lot crashed enough planes after WW 2 because most of your pilots were pissed/ drugged up

It is an E-3.

its a near miss :)

E-8 AWACS Is that a new Aircraft?

It's bc of the stupid 135 autopilot technology from the 50's happens all the time. Kc-10s are way better

Nearly collision

Holy @#$%, one has to be very cool and collected to witness that real time and get on it once again and pull it off right!

It's an E-3A

The TCAS alarm is fucking terrifying in this context.

Hahó

Fake alarm haha

Holy fucking shit

holy POOP!!!!

Folks that's an E-3 scaring the crap out of that boom operator!

That probably represents the most negative G's a 707-based aircraft ever pulled . . .

“Boom stowed and latched, leaving position”

I think this is the one where the pilot's seat malfunction and reclined the pilot backwards causing him to pull up, then the AC forced it down to prevent a crash. If that is the case, someone was not wearing the seat belt and hit the top of the aircraft because of this

AWACS said aight imma head out

What the hell is an E-8?

Dad flew on the KC-10 as a mechanic in the 90's and experienced this quite a few times. When it happens, you do an emergency break away: they go down, you go up. One time when they had to do an emergency break away, someone had a case of soda on board that ended up going everywhere.

Man could you imagine being one of the operators in back? Probably on break during this so you decide to hit the head, this time head hits backs and you come out stained blue....

That’s an E-3 not E-8.

Hopefully that boom operator wore his brown pants.

Ohh shit

I was a flight engineer on the E-3 aircraft, this also happen to our flight crew during refueling. Rough air that force the E-3 up, fast action of the pilot and the boom operator keep the aircraft from hitting each other.

I wonder if the boom operator knew this would happen that why he disconnected when he did

Great catch, scary one! Would you be okay with me featuring this in my series Weekly Dose of Aviation? Of course you will be credited both in the video and in the description. Thanks!

I understand. I was a Tinker AFB AWACS pilot from 1999 until 2003. My most challenging mission in my nearly 30-yr career was when I was a brand new AC and nearly couldn't take the gas on a combat sortie over Afghanistan. It was night, we were in the WX with a lot of turbulence and the tanker showed up without an autopilot. I prayed to God after 30 minutes of trying to connect and us going past "bingo" fuel. He answered within a couple of minutes and we hit the southern edge of that low pressure system and the air instantly went smooth and then the tanker got their autopilot to work all within 5 minutes. I immediately hooked up southbound on the "driveway" in Pakistan and once I had taken half the off-load we turned back Northbound back toward Afghanistan again to finish the mission. Praise the Lord!!

what was that e-3 pilot doing fr

holy shit that oscillation happens SO quickly. Props to the Pilot and boom operator to recover that so quickly. That could have been, SHOULD have been really fucking bad. A mid air with those two would almost certainly kill everyone onboard both planes. Bet those pilots got a good dose of negative G's from that rapid descent. Wonder if they grounded the pilot/boom operator for that, it seems like the boom operator got too hasty to make the connection and the bottom indicator lights came on to tell the pilot that it's safe to make a slight downwards action to keep the planes in line with each other which caused the oscillation. Basically a miscommunication between Pilot and Boom operator? At least that's my layman's assumption. If someone more knowledgeable could fill in some of the details here that'd be awesome! I saw Max Afterburners video on this, but it's not as detailed in the actual flight maneuvers that caused the oscillation. Is it like an overcorrection of rudder input and then the pilot trying to correct the overcorrection with stick input? I know in these situations the best thing you can do is just let go of the controls momentarily and let the flight surfaces do their job to correct the oscillation, but jesus I wonder if they even gave this guy a second pass to refuel or if they just grounded him immediately and sent him back to training? Pilots have such a fucking stressful job. No wonder they're all fucked up on cocaine and liquor all the time lol. It's like the only way you can justify getting in the jet the next day to try again.

Pucker factor 9++, hope the boomer, and the AWACS drivers, had a change of underwear..

That's an E3.

What caused that

NATO E-3, NOT AN E-8

NATO AWACS was not an American pilot.

That's an E-3 Sentry

This is a E-3 Sentry. The E-8 only does ground surveillance and that plane in the video definetly not

ah yes my favorite E-3A, the E-8???

That's one of the most advanced aircrafts we have. What caused this exact error

The pilot saved her cheaply.

poo came out after that 😂

WHO PASSED BLACK

Aircraft is an E-3 SENTRY. The E-8 is the JSTARS and has no rotodome. Similar airframe.

Was a boomer in the seventies. Had contact on with f14. One second we looking at each other. Next second whiteout. Could not c receiver or end of boom. Bam. He was back hadn’t moved. Could have been bad.

Gerbotron 3000 !
I browned my pants, from my office chair !! 😵‍💫😱🙀😮‍💨

Imagine sitting in that fuel tanker when something like this occurs me personally ..I would be shi??ing myself

Me trying to put it in drunk in the dark 🥴