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Hawk Crash RAF Cranwell
Posted: 20 Aug 2008, 17:51
by Garysb
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
Posted: 20 Aug 2008, 17:56
by VulcanDriver
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
Posted: 20 Aug 2008, 18:08
by ronniegj
Sure glad the crew got out, but bet the guys in the tower got a bit of a pucker.
Ron
Posted: 20 Aug 2008, 19:05
by CelticWarrior
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.
Posted: 20 Aug 2008, 19:58
by sprocky
Unfortunatly the passengers and crew of the Spanair MD-82 leaving Madrid Barajas today could not eject
Posted: 21 Aug 2008, 12:35
by globemaster
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.
Posted: 21 Aug 2008, 14:41
by linedog
There'll be some trouble over this.................
.................it's flattened the control towers BBQ.
Posted: 07 Sep 2008, 12:11
by flyingscotsman39
Can't claim the credit for this, it was sent to me in an email - photographer unknown.