31st FW F-16 flame-out...

[james84]

... and it landed in Rome!
http://www.aviazionecivile.com/vb/showt ... post910401

[MIKE JG]

Nice job on his part, that's two in the last couple of months!

[Victory103]

I may ride Italian,but can't speak it, can someone translate?

Good HUD vid from a few years ago from a Viper deadstick into CGAS Elizabeth City, NC.

[james84]

I may ride Italian,but can't speak it, can someone translate?

You are right...
They say that the one of the main Italian newspapers, "Il Corriere della Sera", stated that "the aircraft, and F-16, had a problem with ONE OF ITS TWO ENGINES". So I answered: "Nononononono, the F-16 has BY DEFINITION a single engine!".
Then: "How did an Avian F-16 end up in Fiumicino (FCO)?". "They didn't update their Tomtom software". Other ones state that they didn't image that 31st FW would go in such a southernmost location (do you say so?), somebody laments and swears of not having gone there for spotting although the weather was clear. Another user says that according to the press agency ANSA says that looking at this video...
http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/videogal ... 47454.html
the flamed out aircraft is 90-709 and not 88-444 shown in the photo. Maybe both the aircrafts landed, one escorting the troubled aircraft, then there is a long debate on the exact location of the airport where the aircraft is parked.
Somebody says it was meant to land at the nearby military airport at Pratica di Mare (LIRE), from which military firemen departed, then "on such an F-16 (speaking about the block of construction) you have to eject because if you have a flameout you can't control the aircraft", and "which is the difference between a flame out on a Block 40 or on a new gen F-16, like an Israeli Sufa?".

[james84]

Update: the flamed-out Viper was the second aircraft of a patrol of 4. Leader and #2 landed at FCO, while #3 and #4 returned to AV.
#2 has experienced an important engine failure and will get a new one in FCO today or tomorrow. The pilot kept a 10% thrust, which allows the F-16 to land. The pilot expressly asked to land at FCO because of the length of the runway and because it was closer, and landed and vacated the runway on its own without interfering with civilian traffic. The Leader chased #2 while landing in emergency and touched the ground later.

[james84]

Update: the aircraft has been seen by another user of the forementioned board (aviazionecivile.com), parked at FCO's cargo terminal, surrounded by 3 police cars, while technicians, with open cockpit while technicians were working on it