Afghan "Night Stalker" aircraft in action...

[wrench1]

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Fly it like you stole it..........oooppppssss

[ShyTorque]

Not many survive to do that twice.

[212man]

I like the way they keep filming as if waiting for it to reappear!

[treadigraph]

Amazingly, it seems they did survive though badly injured. "Technical malfunction". A medical one?

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/273795

[KiwiNedNZ]

Afghan "Night Stalker" aircraft in action.

Where does this title come from. First off not even a 160th aircraft, they were sold via FMS as civilian MD530s and are about as far removed from a 160th as chalk is from cheese.

[wrench1]

Originally Posted by KiwiNedNZ

Where does this title come from.

Its a joke, i.e., play on words, hence the quotes around the stalker bit. But doesn't everybody want to be a Night Stalker when zipping around....

[Two's in]

Wow! What a totally unexpected outcome. Good to see Exercise 53 (Wazzing and zooming) is a universally recognized syllabus.

[212man]

Originally Posted by treadigraph

Amazingly, it seems they did survive though badly injured. "Technical malfunction". A medical one?

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/273795

Probably a ‘seat-cyclic-interface’ malfunction. They’re the worst…..

[treadigraph]

Cyclic a bit sticky was it sir?
Well, yes, as a matter of fact it was
Well I wouldn't go telling the CO that, not if I was you...

[Doors Off]

The ole downwind “shandal” with a bit of DA added, not the first “pilot” to prang from “CIFS” (Crowd/Camera Induced FWit Syndrome).