OK so I'm prefacing everything below with, this as general rumour not reported action. Certainly nothing remotely as formal as a Safety (
) Dept. notice about events, and I've not yet run into the crew members involved for confirmation. However in the absence of "official" information, the FD drivers that read this migh find it informative.
Technically it should probably have its own thread, but people asked and look here.
Event happened some 3 weeks or so back. Twin rocket attack on KDH, one of which struck the ramp pretty well at the location FD usually park up at the scheduled time the FD aircraft should have been there. Fortunately this particular day the flight was running a little late. So it was all done and dusted by the time the FD flight arrived, and beyond some shrapnel damage to the tarmac no harm done. Had they been on time that day ......
Apparently the people with the rocket launchers "just got lucky" that and the chances of it happening again like that is negligible. So that nice.
Crew filed a full report to The Spaceman in the hope that it would be released via the official channels 3 weeks later nothing and so the rumour mill grinds to slowly into life and smoke signals and tom-toms send the message "Careful team there are nasty men with guns out there"
"The air attack warning sounds like...
This is the sound
When you hear the air attack warning
You and your family must take cover."
Name the song and win a coconut.
Take Care
F-C