Eurofighter (Typhoon) crash

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This series of pictures shows a typhoon coming in to land at RAF Coningsby station in Lincolnshire, eastern England, on Jan. 16.

the pilot realised the nose wheel was not functioning...so intended to do a controlled crash landing.

He tried to keep the plane on its main wheels until the speed was slow enough to drop the nose safely...

....unfortunately the computer said no

it detected that the planes speed was too slow, so it over-rode the pilot and instantly dumped lift...

resulting in the very heavy nose dive pictured...

If you look closely at the photos, you can see the aspect of the front control surfaces...

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the plane was written off

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[A Twig]

Gotta love it when computers interfere with perfectly good pilots.

[Jamoe]

Thats where I live.

[Anonymous]

It's a case of "jack up the windscreen wipers and change the rest"

[Doorman]

No chance of getting it back for the weekend then?  

[OldBloke]

The little green light seems OK.

[Benny]

So what do they do with right off planes then?

Sell the bits?
I need a new floor pan for my sh1theap.

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by OldBloke@Feb 8 2006, 02:26 PM
The little green light seems OK.

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That's the HUD.

[Armitage]

Computer says NO

[sheepy]

very inventive ARM

[Armitage]

Cheers m8 :boxing:

[sulky_uk]

contary to poular belief i didnt work on it, im in the poor royal air force(helicopters) as opposed to the   posh royal air force (fast jets)

it probably a cat 3 crash which means that its repairable, there is not a lot of dsamage to the back end (except the engines) and the radome has been ripped of, thou the engine intakes seem to have taken the brunt of the damage

theyll probably use it as a training exercise for the engineers  to get it up in the air again (as this will be the first chance to work on a damaged one)

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by sulky_uk@Feb 8 2006, 06:04 PM
contary to poular belief i didnt work on it, im in the poor royal air force(helicopters) as opposed to the  posh royal air force (fast jets)

it probably a cat 3 crash which means that its repairable, there is not a lot of dsamage to the back end (except the engines) and the radome has been ripped of, thou the engine intakes seem to have taken the brunt of the damage

theyll probably use it as a training exercise for the engineers to get it up in the air again (as this will be the first chance to work on a damaged one)

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Yup the BDRU boys can have a field day

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Originally posted by sulky_uk@Feb 8 2006, 06:04 PM


theyll probably use it as a training exercise for the engineers to get it up in the air again (as this will be the first chance to work on a damaged one)

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err...not quite :eyebrow:  :huh: