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F-22 prototype crashes due to Pilot Induced Oscillations

On April 25th 1992, this F-22 prototype crashes on the runway at the Edwards Air Force Base. The plane pitches forward and back 40 feet (12 m) above the runway, lands hardly without gear down, slides 8000 feet (2400 m), and partially burns. The pilot was not seriously hurt.
Investigations showed that the accident was caused by Pilot Induced Oscillations (PIO happens when the flight controls reacts too slowly in regards to the pilot orders).

Comments

Nick
I bet it was Microsoft Windows which caused the failure :) Anyway, we wouldn't be suffering from it if Windows was really the cause.
19th April, 2009
Roguelement
Savannah (Usofa)
Should have called Geek sqwad what with them Nip computers ? See fellas thats exactly what kind of crap todays Millions gets you.Let's all take a close look at Mr Military Complex and see how many Billions belong to JOE USA taxpayer.
18th January, 2008
TopGun
(Sweden)
"PIO happens when the flight controls reacts too slowly in regards to the pilot orders" is wrong!! PIO is caused by pilot overcorrection, not slow flight controls. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot-induced_oscillation
5th May, 2007
Andrew
Melbourne (Australia)
The pilot just fell victim to skynet thats all.
26th March, 2007
Maurice RITCHIE
This accident was actually caused by faulty soft ware in the flight computer not by pilot inputs.
9th July, 2006
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