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Special Finnish Hornet Crashes!

  • 23-01-2010 5:44pm
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    Original Steyr
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    http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/news/2010/01/fighter_jet_crashes_in_forest_1384722.html

    A Hornet jet belonging to the Finnish Defence Forces went down in Juupajoki, some 200 kilometres north of Helsinki around noon on Thursday. The two pilots ejected themselves from the jet before it came crashing to the ground.
    Rescue workers located the pilots two kilometres from the scene of the crash an hour after the jet went down. Neither pilot sustained serious injuries; however the jet, a US-made F/A-18 Hornet, was completely destroyed.
    Rescuers brought the 32-year-old captain and 44-year-old wing commander who parachuted out of the plane to Tampere University Hospital.
    The jet had been flying a routine training mission for 40 minutes when it crashed in a forest on the edge of a field. No one else was injured in the crash.
    The cause of the accident is still unknown.
    YLE, AFP

    Apparently she was special because F-18D (HN-468) was made up of a Finnish F-18C and the cockpit/nose section from a Canadian CF-18B, using up more than 100,000 man hours


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    Poly
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    Original Steyr wrote: »


    Apparently she was special because F-18D (HN-468) was made up of a Finnish F-18C and the cockpit/nose section from a Canadian CF-18B, using up more than 100,000 man hours

    I thought "cut and shut" bodge jobs were the preserve of dodgy car dealers!


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