i watched one of these f**kers crash once......

was stationed at bruggen in germany (tornado base) and a harrior from guterslou was reported on the tannoy to be a "state 2 emergency - no nose wheel!", so we all ran outside of the section, onto the edge of the runway to watch...... the f**ker flew around a bit dumping fuel, then proceeded to line up on the centre line for a standard landing, but with no nose wheel..... it hit the deck and kind of jumped to the right onto the grassy area, and landed like a dart, nose stuck into the ground, arse up in the air (like a dog awaiting a good shafting from roy keane) - the pilot was scrambling away at the cockpit canopy trying to get out..... loads of squadron engineers raced towards the aircraft to help, but when a huge fireball erupted from an engine they all f**ked off sharpish leaving the pitol to get out alone!!! Made us all chuckle how quickly every "hero" f**ked off sharpish!

and that my anecdote on the subject.

Posted By: Cheltenham_Canary, Dec 15, 09:47:36