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Looks like the RAF have lost a Typhoon in China Lake while testing. No details as of yet, but it looks like a 17(R) Sqn pilot was flying an 11 Sqn jet, and had all 3 lights on for landing, but the undercarriage collapsed.

Rumour is it isnt gonna come home.

Oh bl**dy hell, we have few enough as it is.

From Flight Global:

A Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon has been damaged in an incident while landing at the US Navy’s China Lake weapons test range in California, the UK service has confirmed.

Believed to be assigned to the RAF’s Coningsby-based 17 Sqn Operational Evaluation Unit, the aircraft “sustained damage on landing,” the RAF says. The pilot did not eject from the aircraft, which came to rest on the runway, and was not injured in the mishap.

“The damage is still being assessed,” says an RAF source, who adds that a Board of Inquiry has already been established to investigate the cause of the accident. The service’s remaining fleet of almost 50 Typhoons – including aircraft providing permanent quick reaction alert duties for the southern UK from Coningsby – has not been grounded, and “there is no suggestion of airworthiness being compromised,” the source adds.

This is the second landing incident to have affected the RAF’s Typhoon force, with a two-seat aircraft operated by its 29 Sqn Operational Conversion Unit having sustained damage in early 2006 after its nose wheel failed to deploy.

Hmm..........wonder if my brother has pics, he works there.

But.. was it the pilots fault? or mechanical problem? for what you've read it would appear like an aircraft problem

for those who are interested it was ZJ943/DK

Typical the newest one in the fleet

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353665,00.html

Co-pilot? LOL DK is confirmed via my Sources, and its it as FGR.4 (Single Seat)


Typical Media Inaccuracies.....


Dunc

Typical "Sun" what an absolute load of Bollocks. The Typhoons have had numerous Landing Gear problems that hadnt been reported.

Absolute rubbish journalism as usual.

Nick

'The Sun' really is a heap of excrement.

Savage wrote:'The Sun' really is a heap of excrement.

Nice t*ts though!!!

alexrfixit wrote:Nice t*ts though!!!

I like the Zoo.

I always liked the way the Sun shouts about supporting "our boys and girls in uniform" and then does everything it can to sensationalise the most trivial discipline matters.