Second RAF Tornado down.

Wanderer81

Crew eject in second RAF Tornado crash

Tornado GR4 jets are stationed at RAF Lossiemouth on the Moray coast


An RAF Tornado has crashed as it attempted to land at its Lossiemouth base, two weeks after another jet crashed into the sea.
The RAF has confirmed the two crewmen ejected safely during the incident which happened shortly after 1700 BST.
On 27 January two crew members from RAF Lossiemouth ejected from another Tornado before it crashed into the sea north west of Gairloch.
That crew was forced to ditch after the plane caught fire at 6,000ft.
The men involved in the latest incident have been taken to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness. Their condition is not known.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: "An incident has occurred involving an aircraft at Lossiemouth.
"The good news is that the crew ejected safely and are on route to hospital."
RAF Lossiemouth, on the Moray Firth coast, is home to three squadrons of Tornado GR4s.
The Tornado GR4 is a two-seat attack aircraft, capable of delivering a variety of weapons and reaching a maximum altitude of 50,000ft (15,240m).
In July 2009 a pilot and navigator were killed when their Tornado crashed into a hillside in Argyll.
That aircraft was a RAF Leuchars-based Tornado F3 on a routine flight.

seanmacc

This aircraft is an old and obsolete design, if the Brit air-force doesn't start pulling them soon these incidence will be common place. With the scaling back of their Typhoon Programme this looks unlikely.

Dogwatch

They scrapped the Harrier and HMS Ark Royal to keep these flying.

Maybe not a good decision if they keep falling out of the sky.

Steyr

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punchdrunk

looks like they banged out while the aircraft was still on the ground!

cyrusdvirus

seanmacc wrote: »

This aircraft is an old and obsolete design, if the Brit air-force doesn't start pulling them soon these incidence will be common place. With the scaling back of their Typhoon Programme this looks unlikely.

I wouldn't say it's an old and obsolete design, yeah they are an aging design, but first flight was 1974. The Eagle's first flight was 1972 and they are still regarded as a top of the range a/c.

The Tonka still has QUITE a lot to give. And the sound of them..... mm mm mmmmmmmmm

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SNAKEDOC

is that picture of the aircraft after the pilot and roe punched out. thats mad it might have been a premature decision to bail seeing as on its own it managed to stop relatively safely. It brings back the memory of the story of the aer corp jet over Kildare that got into a spin during a training flight. The instructor ordered the student out and the violent ejection forced the jet back into controlled flight. the instructor then was able to fly back to baldonnel and land safely. poor student left in the bog til they could find where he was. I think it was a meteor not too sure

xflyer

The act of ejecting may have changed the whole dynamic of the incident. That in fact is what happened in the Air Corps. It was a Vampire and there was nothing premature about it. In fact the only reason the Vampire was recovered from the spin was because of the change of airflow without the canopy allowed the Instructor to recover and fly away. This happened in the RAF several times apparently according to a well known test pilot.

As for the Tornado incident. I'm sure there was a good reason for the ejection. No doubt it will all come out in due course. The actual act of ejection might have slowed the jet down. They probably lost control for some reason during the early part of the landing, thrust reverser issues? One thing for sure sitting tight in a jet bomber as it hurtles towards the scenery is not a place I would like be.