Tucano Down at Linton (Pilot OK)
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Tucano Down at Linton (Pilot OK)
Currently on another site is a report that a Tucano has gone down at Linton this afternoon, Pilot reported to have ejected at low level, but is reported as OK
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"pilot taken to QMC NOTTINGHAM".
probably laying on a trolly in a forgotten corner as we speak, wondering when he will be treated.
oh, and thinking "why can i smell pizza"?
QUEENS MEDICAL CENTRE, the only hospital with a pizza emporium in the foyer!!!!
a shocking, dump of a hospital!!!
p.s, i of course hope he is well soon
probably laying on a trolly in a forgotten corner as we speak, wondering when he will be treated.
oh, and thinking "why can i smell pizza"?
QUEENS MEDICAL CENTRE, the only hospital with a pizza emporium in the foyer!!!!
a shocking, dump of a hospital!!!
p.s, i of course hope he is well soon
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Must have changed considerably since I was there having my back re-assembled 
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Wishing the pilot a speedy recovery.
Some images recorded after the ejection.
Tucano Crash 12th March 09
Some images recorded after the ejection.
Tucano Crash 12th March 09
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Let's hope the pilot recovers very quickly. I'm sure that SAR Sea King is the one which flew over my house at 1300 today. It was good to see it as we don't get many military aircraft in this part of the People's Republic...
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Interesting pictures on the link from TEEEJ. Airframe looks almost totally intact with a few obvious exceptions (prop and ejection seat to name two!). Obviously have no idea what went wrong but from the images one could suggest he almost got away with it...or did a fantastic job flying the aircraft before pulling the yellow and black!
Glad to hear pilot on the road to recovery. No doubt he'll have a good story to tell in the bar once the excitement has died down and to the grandchildren in a few years!
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Glad to hear pilot on the road to recovery. No doubt he'll have a good story to tell in the bar once the excitement has died down and to the grandchildren in a few years!
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Where does that leave the 2009 tucano dispaly then?
PS Lets hear it again for those wizards at Martin Baker
PPS Very sadly, it reminds me of a JP3 crash in allmost the same part of the airfield in the early 1980's. I believe it was a JP display practise; unfortunately the pilot died. (Perhaps someone can confirm this?)
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A JP display pilot crashed at Linton in the spring of 1977.
I remember that one because it was the day before I arrived to begin my BFTS course on the aircraft.
The pilot didn't die but he was very severely injured and I don't think he ever recovered. The SMO got a bravery award for digging in the earth down to the pilot and performing a tracheaotomy on him in situ, which saved his life (aircraft was inverted, with him still strapped into the live ejection seat).
Something in the depths of my memory also tells me there may have been yet another aeros accident later, perhaps the one previously referred to.
I remember that one because it was the day before I arrived to begin my BFTS course on the aircraft.
The pilot didn't die but he was very severely injured and I don't think he ever recovered. The SMO got a bravery award for digging in the earth down to the pilot and performing a tracheaotomy on him in situ, which saved his life (aircraft was inverted, with him still strapped into the live ejection seat).
Something in the depths of my memory also tells me there may have been yet another aeros accident later, perhaps the one previously referred to.