Classic British Flight Sim

F-15D from Lakenheath. Pilot ejected OK, no one the ground hurt.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-li ... e-29544064

Deary do.. glad there were no casualties

ATB
DaveB

Yikes, that could have been nasty. Glad everyone's fine.

Brian

Crashes are pretty much expected now and then around here. Used to be worse in Fosdyke, when I lived there - we were very close (and sometimes under when we were out on the bike) to the run-in to Holbeach range and they come over pretty darned low (I think the official deck is 250ft) at high speed and very loud noise. The F-15s were easily the loudest. Weston will be near the start of that low-level run-in.

I think the last one was quite a a while ago - a Harrier went down across the A-17 from the village and the pilot didn't make it. This guy was lucky.

Come to think of it, this probably explains what that Merlin was doing that I saw streaming along just above tree-top level

Isn't the F-15D the two-seater version ? Was he flying without a W.S.O. ?

Paul K wrote:Isn't the F-15D the two-seater version ? Was he flying without a W.S.O. ?

D is the trainer version of the C so can be happily flown single crew, the E is the two seat bomber variant that has a WSO.

What I find amazing about these military incidents is that they always come down near houses and a school. If the pilot had been killed he would have been hailed a hero for steering his doomed plane away from said buildings - the press always play it this way.

Paul

SkippyBing wrote: D is the trainer version of the C so can be happily flown single crew, the E is the two seat bomber variant that has a WSO.

Ah that's it, I was getting the D and E mixed up. Thanks Skippy.