Originally Posted by
ex-cx
PaulRoss may I ask where and when the broken F27 was photographed please?
ex-cx It was at Gialo, Libya, around 28 40'N, 21 30'E. This report seems pretty accurate (the words seem somewhat familiar to me):
https://aviation-safety.net/database...?id=19850306-0
I can add a little; a few days after the accident some engineers came and removed the radio and radar equipment but that's all, the rest was left as shown. It was still there as-is a year later beyond which I was posted. I don't know why, as a (non-aviation) engineer, that it should be treated as a write off. The aircraft was fairly new and the only significant damage was the left undercarriage leg collapse and the bent left prop. Surely that is not sufficient to write off the airframe?
Bizarrely about five or seven years later I knew a British Midland pilot whose father ran a spares business. They had been offered a F-27 in the desert and, knowing that I had worked there, he asked me if I knew about it. I was able to give him all the photographs so I guess it really was written off and broken for spares.