Title: How low can a fighter jet fly safely? - Quora
Headings: How low can a fighter jet fly safely?
How low can a fighter jet fly safely?
Scot Johnson

Content: However other aircraft were sometimes a problem, mostly light civil aircraft. I also do remember one time I dropped down from 500 feet to perhaps 200 feet over the flat desert, only to have an F-111 fly perpendicular and underneath me at an even lower attitude. We flew a lot out of the Philippines. There the main problem was the unseen obstacles of logging cables, stretched across a valley from one mountain to another. We had one aircraft have part of his wing sliced off by one of these cables as he flew a low-level through a valley. He landed safely but was in a lot of trouble with his CO. Months later we lost an aircraft hitting a logging cable, but the pilot safely ejected. I remember practicing low-level flight over the water off the Philippine coast. We flew as fast and as low as we possibly could. We maybe rationalized that it was for training to dodge SAMs over North Vietnam, but I think we did it mostly because it was thrilling.