And then transition from the hover ..... (video)
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And then transition from the hover .....
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BBC News report of the incident
Pilot error caused the crash of a £15m Harrier jet at a Suffolk air show last year, an official inquiry has revealed.
Crowds on the seafront at Lowestoft watched as the RAF plane which had been hovering above the waves off-shore suddenly seemed to lose power and plunged 60 feet into the water.
The pilot Flight Lieutenant Tony Cann ejected to safety and suffered a broken ankle. The plane was later recovered from the sea bed.
Changes in pilot training have been recommended after it was discovered that a cockpit mistake by the flier was responsible for the crash.
An RAF board of inquiry has now established that Flight Lieutenant Cann had accidentally operated the controls for throttle and nozzle direction lever at the same time causing it to drop like a stone.
Flight Lieutenant Cann, who is now flying again and based at RAF Cottismore, is said to have received advice following the loss of the plane in August 2003.
The good thing is the pilot survived with only a broken ankle.
Tudor Owen
Pilot error caused the crash of a £15m Harrier jet at a Suffolk air show last year, an official inquiry has revealed.
Crowds on the seafront at Lowestoft watched as the RAF plane which had been hovering above the waves off-shore suddenly seemed to lose power and plunged 60 feet into the water.
The pilot Flight Lieutenant Tony Cann ejected to safety and suffered a broken ankle. The plane was later recovered from the sea bed.
Changes in pilot training have been recommended after it was discovered that a cockpit mistake by the flier was responsible for the crash.
An RAF board of inquiry has now established that Flight Lieutenant Cann had accidentally operated the controls for throttle and nozzle direction lever at the same time causing it to drop like a stone.
Flight Lieutenant Cann, who is now flying again and based at RAF Cottismore, is said to have received advice following the loss of the plane in August 2003.
The good thing is the pilot survived with only a broken ankle.
Tudor Owen
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Come on guys cut the ones who can't access this site some flack!. I get the same if I put in the words fixed wing bus drivers and up pops the block.
FT/MightyGem bathers in all shapes and sizes cause the block or was it just the fact that the pilot could not master the technique of
TnT
FT/MightyGem bathers in all shapes and sizes cause the block or was it just the fact that the pilot could not master the technique of
Hovering is best left to the folk that can do it properly!!!
TnT
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For those guys who can't get through the firewalls I put it on my server.
http://www.rotorboater.com/harrierfalls.wmv[/URL]
http://www.rotorboater.com/harrierfalls.wmv[/URL]
