Hawk Crash RAF Cranwell

Post by **Garysb** » 20 Aug 2008, 17:51

Hawk crashes into RAF Cranwell Tower car park

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/linc ... 572833.stm

Both pilots ejected minor injuries

Gary

Post by **VulcanDriver** » 20 Aug 2008, 17:56

Glad to hear the crew are alive.

I do hope that this doesn't lead to the Hawk being grounded during the inquiry as the Red Arrows would be grounded too during their display season.

John

ronniegj · Post by **ronniegj** » 20 Aug 2008, 18:08

Sure glad the crew got out, but bet the guys in the tower got a bit of a pucker.

Ron

CelticWarrior · Post by **CelticWarrior** » 20 Aug 2008, 19:05

How strange, I watched this aircraft take off earlier, after being picked up from storage. They'd been doing engine runs on it for nearly a week - noisy gits.

Glad to hear the crew are OK.

sprocky · Post by **sprocky** » 20 Aug 2008, 19:58

Unfortunatly the passengers and crew of the Spanair MD-82 leaving Madrid Barajas today could not eject

globemaster · Post by **globemaster** » 21 Aug 2008, 12:35

Was in the village at the time of the crash on a job (ambulace service), didn't here a thing and was no smoke. If our patient hadn't of travelled, we would of been first on scene. At incidents like that though, the Raf don't let civil ambulance crews near the flight crew. A SAR seaking was on scene in mins.

linedog · Post by **linedog** » 21 Aug 2008, 14:41

There'll be some trouble over this.................
.................it's flattened the control towers BBQ.

flyingscotsman39 · Post by **flyingscotsman39** » 07 Sep 2008, 12:11

Can't claim the credit for this, it was sent to me in an email - photographer unknown.