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Luftwaffe Tornado NLG Collapses In Afghanistan

A342 From Germany, joined Jul 2005, 4655 posts, RR: 4
Posted (6 years 3 weeks 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 2958 times:

When 2 Luftwaffe Tornados returned from a recce mission to Mazar-i Sharif, on one of the jets, the nose landing gear collapsed. The aircraft then partly "landed" on its recce pod. Nobody was hurt.

A342

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LHStarAlliance From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 1, posted (6 years 3 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 2813 times:

one more reason to order new jets...

MD11Engineer From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 13342 posts, RR: 64
Reply 2, posted (6 years 3 weeks 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 2730 times:

Quoting LHStarAlliance (Reply 1):
one more reason to order new jets...

Bovine manure.

What has an incident like this to do with ordering new aircraft?
It could have had all kinds of reasons, and they usually get fixed quite fast. The Tornado is a proven aircraft, same as the F-4, which both have passed the teething problems stage. A new aircraft would just have new problems.

Jan

Pelican From Germany, joined Apr 2004, 2530 posts, RR: 8
Reply 3, posted (6 years 3 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 2605 times:

Quoting LHStarAlliance (Reply 1):
one more reason to order new jets...

More like spend more money on maintenance and training. I don't know by what this incident was caused. But the poor funding of the Luftwaffe (the Bundeswehr in general) is no secret.

pelican

A342 From Germany, joined Jul 2005, 4655 posts, RR: 4
Reply 4, posted (6 years 3 weeks 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 2578 times:

It seems the runway was/is in a very bad condition. Have a look at it here:

http://maps.google.com/maps?spn=0.03...&hl=en&ll=36.706914,67.209678&fc=1

But maybe this picture isn't very recent.

In the meantime, the Luftwaffe has suspended all flights from there. The officials stated the following reason: A heavy transport aircraft has damaged the runway (after the incident happened).

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MD11Engineer From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 13342 posts, RR: 64
Reply 5, posted (6 years 3 weeks 5 days 5 hours ago) and read 2555 times:

Quoting A342 (Reply 4):
It seems the runway was/is in a very bad condition.

If the runway has potholes, then maybe they'll need to send a company of Army engineers in with bulldozers, graders and concrete mixers to repair the runway.

Jan

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