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Greek F-16 down...

The video appears to show that it crashed on part of the flightline?

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I gained that impression too, Rhino. Looks like there's a damaged airframe balanced on its nose.

RIP to the dead, and wishing a swift recovery for the injured.

Greek F-16 down...

ITV reporting 10 fatalities. I hope they've got that wrong.

10 reported dead

Spanish newspapers cite Spanish MoD sources as confirming 10 dead. 13 injured. 6 serious.

Se estrella un F-16 griego en la base de Albacete - Espaa - abc.es

Latest from El Pais is 10 dead and 13 injured and that up to 20 could be dead.

Crashed on the flight-line near the Training Ops Center.

RIP.

Diez muertos y 13 heridos al estrellarse un F-16 griego en Albacete | España | EL PAÍS

Se estrella un F-16 griego en la base de Albacete - Espaa - abc.es

I spot several Tornados and Harriers on the flight line, so seems a multi-national exercise going on...terrible.

Lakenheath F15 also next to site

TLP.

Could be very bad

MoD saying no British nationals involved.

Thoughts with those who are.

Looks pretty bad, condolences to those involved

Was on BBC World TV out here a few minutes ago-pictures showed established fire seemed to be burning without any attempts at control applied.

As has happened so often before, a mishap starts out as a routine training mission ... RIP, brothers in arms, doing what we do or did.

Could have been any of us, on a given day.
*taps*

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Originally Posted by sandiego89 (Post 8840904)

Se estrella un F-16 griego en la base de Albacete - Espaa - abc.es

I spot several Tornados and Harriers on the flight line, so seems a multi-national exercise going on...terrible.

As likely to be Matadores as Harriers.

According to the BBC video "Most of the dead are believed to be foreigners" - thanks Ben Brown - that's sympathetic . . .

Having been to Albacete during an exercise, I can't imagine how the F-16 would have crashed into the flightline or hangars. The east/west runway is well away from the flightline. Is it possible it caught fire on the flightline itself rather than being previously airborne?

Christ I did TLP out of Florenne, halcyon days. Never thought something like this could happen. RIP

Saying a take off accident. Looks like the runway is about due east/west, and the impact area on the flight line a good 1000 feet north of centerline, mid-runway with shelters and taxi ways separating the two. Clear separation as Rabina says, so the F-16 had to be airborne and went up and over the shelters/open ground, or something happened on the ramp. Open areas to the South unfortunately. :(

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Los+L...Spain&t=h&z=15

List of participants from here: http://airheadsfly.com/2015/01/26/ma...-tlp-exercise/
List of participants TLP 2015-1
3 Lockheed Martin F-16C plus 1 F-16D, Hellenic Air Force (341 Mira from Almiros/Nea Anchialos Airbase)
4 Eurofighter EF2000s, Spanish Air Force (ALA 11 from Morón Airbase)
2 Dassault Rafales, French Air Force (EC 01.091 from BA113 Saint Dizier)
2 Dassault Mirage 2000Ds, French Air Force (ETD 02.007 from BA133 Nancy/Ochey)
2 Mirage 2000-5, French Air Force (EC 01.002 from BA116 Luxeuil/St.Sauveur)
5 McDonnell Douglas AV-8B+, Italian Naval Aviation (Gruppo Aerei Imbarcati from Grottaglie/Taranto)
3 Boeing (McDonnel Douglas) F-15E Strike Eagle (From RAF Lakenheath)
2 Dornier / Dassault Alpha Jets, French Air Force (EE 02.002 from BA120 Cazaux)
2 AMX, Italian Air Force (132° Gruppo from Istrana Airbase)
4 Panavia Tornado IDSs, German Air Force (Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 33 from Büchel)
2 British Aerospace Hawk, Royal Air Force (No. 100 Squadron from RAF Leeming)