#137 Scott "Fester" Fredrick | F-16 Fighter Pilot | Surviving an Ejection over the Pacific Ocean
The Afterburn Podcast
John "Rain" Waters
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🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 92 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | But I'm running that checklist, taking a piss in my pittal pack, and I get the rollback. |
| 0:04.9 | And I was like, oh my God, what's going on? No lights. Tell everybody, yeah, I got an RPM rollback. Massive loss of thrust. And, of course, start falling out of the sky. So I'm like, smack, nearest divert, go. Like, number four, go with nearest divert. So that was number three smacks like you know some name |
| 0:21.9 | i can't pronounce in russia uh like three five zero for 432 miles something like that and i'm like |
| 0:28.1 | well i'm making that but we pointed that way and off we went at that point the engine's running |
| 0:34.2 | so i'm like getting i'm like what's going on trying to figure it out? It's abnormal |
| 0:37.8 | engine response is the only checklist I could think of at that point. We do that. Later on, |
| 0:42.4 | they figure out it was about three and a half minutes that the engine was running before it failed. |
| 0:48.6 | So at that point, I'm pointing north in the descent now above the weather, but about to get into the |
| 0:53.9 | weather, which made life more fun. The motor fails, and then I start to an air start. pointing north in the descent now above the weather but about to get into the weather which |
| 0:54.5 | made life more fun. |
| 0:55.9 | The motor fails and then I start doing air starts and I vividly remember on the radio going |
| 1:01.4 | okay I've tried three air starts I have no idea what's going on with this airplane. |
| 1:06.2 | Good idea ferry time and I said that over the radio I was like if anybody's got an idea |
| 1:10.5 | throw it at me because if not this is happening dead that over the radio I was like if anybody's got an idea throw it at me |
| 1:11.7 | because if not this is happening dead silence on the radio like nobody was pitching into that |
| 1:17.0 | fight so that part is where training kicked in so I literally told the tanker we're on tanker |
| 1:24.1 | prize still I'm like just 93 is my call sign. |
| 1:30.2 | Call JPRC or like prepare for a maritime rescue. |
| 1:31.8 | Like, this is happening. |
| 1:36.3 | To our time, our own to our way for 11, 7,0,0 at 5, |
| 1:36.9 | click off. |
| 1:38.8 | Seatide, out of 20-0-0. |
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