Red Arrows Mid-air collision

[andylinney]

Just Reading on the BBC news website the two Hawks collided whilst practising over Crete this morning. One pilot ejected with minor injuries and the other landed safely.

[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/8583263.stm]BBC News - Red Arrows pilot in hospital after mid-air crash[/url]

[PsiLo]

Heard that on the radio earlier, tail clipped the other jet on a low flyby. really lucky to have ejected safely.

[coptermanic]

My mate was killed in the first Hawk fatal at RAF Valley in 1982. I saw it as I was behind him in the circuit.

[3DJIM]

[quote=coptermanic;445029]My mate was killed in the first Hawk fatal at RAF Valley in 1982. I saw it as I was behind him in the circuit.[/quote]

Bloody hell, thats gotta be horrible. :(

Jim.

[andylinney]

[quote=coptermanic;445029]My mate was killed in the first Hawk fatal at RAF Valley in 1982. I saw it as I was behind him in the circuit.[/quote]

Sorry to hear that, I've lost two friends in crashes. One in an engine failiure after during a go-around in a SA Bulldog at Woodvale and another shot down in a Hercules in Iraq. It's a dreadful thing to hear that a pilot has died but at least comforting to know that it happened whilst they were doing something they loved.

[coptermanic]

Absolutely. It was something we lived with, and thankfully never happened that regularly.

[asomaro]

Andy/Mike,

Your comments about your friends put things into perspective, kind of makes "normal" day to day problems (that many of us make into more than they need to be) look a bit silly in comparison.