RSAF Tornado Bites the Sand

[soddim]

Tornado crashes in desert, pilot duo survives (http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=128488&d=16&m=11&y=2009)

[Rigga]

Why is it that I feel unsure about the early delivery of such a confident closing "technical fault" statement?

[fallmonk]

Glad crew got out safe,
the RSAF Might be able to get a good discount on a few second hand ones the way things are going in the uk with the tonkas ! :rolleyes:

[L J R]

Navigation is done by following the Saudi Freeways/Motorways/Expressways.....

[saudih]

guys here say it got into a spin @16,000ft during BFM..... crew left at 10,000

So for losses that's an F15, survived, Tucano, pilot killed and Tornado, 2 survived in the last 10 days.Accidents come in 3s after all

[Gainesy]

Tucano? Do you mean PC-9?

[saudih]

yep apologies

[Gainesy]

No problem, welcome aboard.:ok::)

[30mRad]

Any news on the crew - quite a few ex-RAF or secondees (sp?!) out there?

Regardless of who, how or why, glad the crew made the timely decision to step over the side! :ok:

[advocatusDIABOLI]

For those who might be interested:

PC-9 (Tucano as reported) -(Solo) Student Pilot OK (Not Killed as reported). Investigation ongoing, probable technical (Engine Related) failure.
Tornado- Both 'Locals'- OK. Cause unknown. Loss of control has been mentioned.
F15-'Local'- OK- No Details.

Just to fill the gaps.

Advo

[Ewan Whosearmy]

Saudih

Any details on the F-15 mishap?

Ta.

[saudih]

Ah ok sorry about the duff gen re the PC9. Minimal info as always: Same day as the PC9 F15 C from Taif, pilot ejected over the Red Sea was picked up fine. (so that will have been a bit of a shock if they paid the same attention during dinghy drill as they did in Dhahran!)

[TEEEJ]

Good news that everyone ejected safely. Was the Tornado an IDS or ADV? Rumour control has all the ADVs withdrawn from use during 2007.

Royal Saudi Air Force (http://www.scramble.nl/sa.htm)

Info on the 'Order of Battle' on the right of the webpage.

TJ

[saudih]

IDS from Dhahran.

ADV indeed withdrawn, but then so were the F5's which have been flying again over the past 10 days as recce assets for the spot of bother near the yemeni/saudi border.

F15 s with Lantirn, IDS with CLDP, both with snakeye Apache with Hellfire... and the venerable F5 with it's wet film camera....

[TEEEJ]

Thanks, Saudih.

TJ

[Ewan Whosearmy]

Ditto - thanks muchly, saudih.