Slightly Moist Harrier

[Tech Guy]

Found this picture on another forum. I presume there is an interesting backstory here. Does anyone have any info? Thanks.


https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1280x853/daily_picdump_003889_049_51d4971b30ea084098831fd4603919ab103 0434d.jpg

[charliegolf]

Trying to land on that little MS12 was never going to end well!

CG

[Nolongerin]

I was groundcrew on 3F at the time 1990 or 91. If I recall correctly it was late afternoon and we’d been waiting for authority to drop a 1000lb inert off the the centreline from a GR5. It finally came through and a pair took off in a downpour (to be accurate one did, the other ended up in the Ems) for the range.
I won’t comment on the reasons as I’m sure it’s recorded more accurately than I can remember but I do recall the pilots name and he did get out safely.

[Fareastdriver]

It obviously ran out of ground effect.

[sandiego89]

Sea Harrier got even more moist: FA2 Sea Harrier River Crash (http://firevl.tripod.com/fa_2_river_crash.htm)

[Herod]

It would make a nice little narrowboat.

[Rhino power]

Accident summary.

-RP

[Wensleydale]

The things a pilot will do to get a Goldfish membership......

[Cows getting bigger]

Mark Z, I seem to recollect.

[Nolongerin]

After reading the accident report, which jogged my memory, I believe the pilot broke his ankle.

yes, Mark Z.

[H Peacock]

Was this the Harrier that incorrectly aborted it's take-off because it was just a few knots too slow to get airborne?

[ex-fast-jets]

What else would you expect from 3(F)?

[Nolongerin]

Tertius Primus Erit’ - ‘The Third Shall be First’ or more commonly ‘Chicken on a Brick’

[Just This Once...]

Trying to stop a Harrier with the taxi brake / parking brake / footrest at CTO speeds. Gulp.

[weemonkey]

Found this picture on another forum. I presume there is an interesting backstory here. Does anyone have any info? Thanks.


https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1280x853/daily_picdump_003889_049_51d4971b30ea084098831fd4603919ab103 0434d.jpg

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/396x607/ddd_7322d9a294c8071c4fa53484bbed09d35add43a6.jpg

[chevvron]

Didn't know Harriers carried life rafts that big.

[Dan Winterland]

Didn't know Harriers carried life rafts that big.

Needed for the pilot's ego.

[FantomZorbin]

Damn, there goes another keyboard:D

[pettinger93]

As a non-technical person: what happens to the well-washed Harrier airframe afterwards? Scrapped or repaired?

[ORAC]

Airframe was allocated to Brough as a test rig.

[Tech Guy]

Excellent. Thank you chaps. :)

[oldmansquipper]

Needed for the pilot's ego.

Dan. Good spot. Of course all the space in the SS liferaft is taken up by the 'special' boots worn ONLY by Harrier mates.:cool:

I bet there are still guys out there wearing them.....��

[Minnie Burner]

I pity the other bloke. In the cockpit with the Vax........

[Traffic_Is_Er_Was]

Awarded the Queen's Cox'n Ticket.

[bridgets boy]

I was at Gut at the time. One wag in the mess said "of course, the most embarrassing things is watching all the transfers float off down the Ems..."

[possel]

As a non-technical person: what happens to the well-washed Harrier airframe afterwards? Scrapped or repaired?
Airframe was allocated to Brough as a test rig.
I was at Wittering at the time and we had the one with a Kapton fire in the back end. For a while there was a suggestion that our front and the 3(F) back end should be made into a single aircraft, but the idea was later discounted - dunno why.

[paulo]

Love the liferaft.

If it wasn’t for that, they’d have been done for. :D