Red Arrows Crash

[spitfire-ian]

Incident in Greece whilst training apparently...

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=...

[knight]

Fingers crossed the pilots are ok.

[spitfire-ian]

http://hellenicdefencenews.blogspot.com/2010/03/re...

http://greece-salonika.blogspot.com/2010/03/red-ar... - in Greek, sorry.

Edited to add: Picture removed as it may not be relevant.

Edited by spitfire-ian on Tuesday 23 March 13:49

[knight]

Is that not a pic of a previous Arrows crash!

http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/0DDA8E91-BE34-4E88-...

[spitfire-ian]

knight said:

Is that not a pic of a previous Arrows crash!

http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/0DDA8E91-BE34-4E88-...

Don't know.

[IainT]

Countryside in the pic doesn't look particularly Greek.

Hope everyone's alright/alive anyway.

[Eric Mc]

Pilot in hospital, according to the BBC.

I wonder was the new lady pilot involved?

[spitfire-ian]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Article/20100311558034...

[robinhood21]

Eric Mc said:

I wonder was the new lady pilot involved?

Probably.

ETA: According to Sky News:
The pilot who parachuted from his aircraft suffered a dislocated shoulder and was taken to hospital.

Edited by robinhood21 on Tuesday 23 March 15:31

[Simpo Two]

'Kittens and embroidery', much safer

[RacingPete]

spitfire-ian said:

http://greece-salonika.blogspot.com/2010/03/red-ar... - in Greek, sorry.

Greek site translation (well synopsis):

2 red arrow Hawk plans crashed in the air. One pilot abandoned the plane, they say that he is hurt but they haven't announced how serious his condition is. The other pilot landed his plane with the rest of the group. The pilot that was hurt has been taken to the 251 Airforce hospital.

[Simpo Two]

That's done his no-claims bonus.

[Taffer]

Simpo Two said:

'Kittens and embroidery', much safer

Awaits GinettaG15Girl's indignant reply about sexism.

Massive 'whoosh' not pictured.

Oh no, wait.......




Hopefully both aircrew are OK.

Edited by Taffer on Tuesday 23 March 16:20

[spitfire-ian]

Simpo Two said:

That's done his no-claims bonus.

That's the picture I posted earlier then later removed. That is an old crash pic and not one of todays.

[aeropilot]

Simpo Two said:

That's done his no-claims bonus.

That crash of '252 happened back in 1998.....

[markmullen]

Simpo Two said:

That's done his no-claims bonus.

I've taxed worse!

[eccles]

markmullen said:

Simpo Two said:

That's done his no-claims bonus.

I've taxed worse!

Or to use the standard liney phrase....'It'll do a trip'

[Mojocvh]

Who had the bright idea of giving a cab the tail no 252 anyway? (you'd have to have done some time to get it though)

[karona]

Mojocvh said:

Who had the bright idea of giving a cab the tail no 252 anyway? (you'd have to have done some time to get it though)

Yup, saw a couple of 252s in my time at Cosford, Colchester's nice in the summer

[Ayahuasca]

Eric Mc said:

Pilot in hospital, according to the BBC.

I wonder was the new lady pilot involved?

Picture of an injured pilot is on the Daily Mail site and looks very male.

Hope both make a full recovery.

A rel of mine was flying with them only two weeks ago!