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Old 2nd May 2012, 16:50
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Tinribs
 
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Other wizard prangs at Leuchars

There was an accident that went something like;

Phantom has radar blooming tries to dump air pressure gets emergency flap lever by mistake, dumps all hyd pressure into flaps, speed about 300, flaps fall off.

Going home, no utilities gear down, no flap, no hook, on landing no brakes or nose steering or rudder. Starts to drift to side of runway, go round start again, no nozles so acceleration poor, nav punches both out, Nig Randall I think.

Aircraft continues full cold, some hyd pressure now so hook comes down catches far end wire, aircraft stops on road at end of runway engines in full cold and hanging on the wire pointing at MQs.

No way of stopping engines until it ran out of fuel
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