BEagle
In my 5000+ hours on the VC10, no-one ever drove anything into the aeroplane.
Yet over the last few years, there seem to have been some inexcusable ground incidents. It's not as though the TriStar is an infrequent visitor to Akrotiri, so is there a systemic problem - or was this a 'one-off'?
When RAF AT is at such a premium, such incidents are
particularly unacceptable.
Whoever causes them.
So the VC 10 that went to Newcastle many many moons ago and had a bog truck go through the back end does not count then? OR the VC10 that went up to replace it (after the first flew back to roost at Brize below 10,000 ft and unpressurised) which was also attacked by the same person in the same place with another bog truck, I take it they do not count then?........
Or the one after a certain crewman decided to push some steps under the fuselage so he could get in the freight bay whilst refuelling went on and I had to offload 35,000 lb of fuel to get them back out? does that not count either?
Or the tow bar that went throught the nose of a VIP?
Should I go on?