Originally Posted by
megan
Will be answered in good time, depends on where the hits occur. Spaz can tell a story of how a youngster collided with his CO by hitting the underside of the bosses aircraft, the collision occurred to the lower aircrafts cockpit crushing and killing the youngster in the process. Caused a hydraulics failure in the bosses AC and the nose wheel collapsed when he took the arresting gear on landing. Ditto, you make your assessments, controlability, level of known damage etc, talk of possibly crashing the aircraft in the suburbs, breaking news, it's a single engine aircraft and that could occur on any flight.
Yes an horrific collision during a divisional practice bomb drop (starting from a loose [battle] formation during the start of a pull up for the dive then delayed fan into the dive) from a staggered start at the top of the dive. There is likely online info which I'll search out. The surviving A4G had the engine flameout with a good restart and a fuel leak also IIRC. Excellent airmanship on the part of the CO to recover his aircraft to a short field arrest etc.
Excellent accident report here:
Skyhawk870-872Crawley.pdf (faaaa.asn.au)