Tornado off runway
 

BBC Five live..Tornado has left runway Newcastle airport. Latest news says a bird strike.

Ohhhh I live in Newcastle, haven't heard anything about it yet though....News is on shortly, I'll keep an eye open for it, see what they say.

On the Beeb website now.

BBC NEWS | England | Tyne | RAF Tornado jet overshoots runway

at least they used the right picture if it was a GR4

BBC NEWS | England | Tyne | RAF Tornado jet overshoots runway

hmmm, better watch out for the "radiation from a flare"!

[of course, this post no longer makes sense as they have updated the news article - the original stated that the nearby road was closed due to radiation from a flare]

'One eyewitness...described seeing "all hell break loose" as emergency vehicles raced to the scene.' :ugh:

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Took the above about an hour ago. Hope the crew walked away okay - looks like they may have taken a bird in the windscreen rather than in one of the intakes.

Graeme

I do hope the crew...
 

....are OK either nose leg has sunk or has gone lossie. Fingers crossed.

Be careful guys/gals it's time of the year (almost)

Cloudscape sunset print from a painting NEW ARRIVALS depicting migrating geese

AL1 It's the pin bag sitting there :ugh: as seen from those linked pictures!

Well, a land away, where you don't need a ladder. Good Skills. Newcastle is also a very good night out! :D

Advo

Looks more like something left on top of the IFR probe fairing if you zoom in.

sw

Hope that they ended up getting pissed at Boulmer, though the airmen rooted out of the NAAFI to guard it may not agree...

The airport hotel more like!! They do a good pint in there.

Airman will be pulled from Leeming?? Won't be Techies!:ok:

There are several pictures on a photo forum I frequent, see



Crash Landing

:ugh:Made me divert to Teeside (closed because of another military div!) then EDI when I have a blessed court case the next day and having to land with fumes. How rude. :=

Well thats one way to do mud moving.

Them pesky birds get everywhere!! Fly safe guys.

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I was SLF on KLM flight this morning (05:55). I thought the pilot was departing on a shortened runway. I presumed we would depart from 07 via taxiway Alpha. Instead, he used taxiway Bravo and called 'cabin crew, seats for take off'. I started to panic thinking he is going to try and take off from the bravo's! :yuk: Note - it was dense fog this morning, so I thought he had made a mistake.

Instead, he back tracked 07 and started his take off role from the numbers on 25. Could see the F3 about 50ft from the extended threshold. Taxiway Delta was closed due to vechicle traffic.

Here's a theory without any factual proof. How about a mid-air between the two aircraft?

And here is another one.. they were abducted by Aliens, only when they got the kit off the back seater to experiment on him they were appalled by what they saw, so they beamed them back to Newcastle......:8

Maybe the crew, under cover of 'fog', quickly disguised their F3 as a GR4, using various maps / books and choccie bars to avoid embarrasment. Oh and then quickly changed their home base to Lossi, using JPA. :}

Advo

Advo, do you really expect them to be able to do anything quickly with JPA? :bored:

Pezza