RAF Spitfire crash.

[Uther]

Looks like one of the BBMF Spitfires has gone down at Coningsby, pilot killed.
RIP

RAF pilot dies after Spitfire crashes in field near Coningsby base in Lincolnshire

RAF Coningsby is home to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, a collection of wartime fighter and bomber aircraft that take part in air shows and memorial displays.

news.sky.com

 

[sx_turbo]

Looks like one of the BBMF Spitfires has gone down at Coningsby, pilot killed.
RIP

RAF pilot dies after Spitfire crashes in field near Coningsby base in Lincolnshire

RAF Coningsby is home to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, a collection of wartime fighter and bomber aircraft that take part in air shows and memorial displays.

news.sky.com

Rip.

Wonder what happened

 

[Housey]

Sad

 

[Stu999]

Very sad to hear. RIP to the pilot.

 

[ivrytwr3]

RIP, Blue skies Sir.

 

[Flibster]

Saw the news earlier, then it was confirmed to be the BBMF Spitfire MkIXe MK356. It's a D-Day veteran aircraft as well.

Sad day for the BBMF.

RIP.

 

[NooBish AbbZ]

Pretty close to this one; awful news.

 

[beachBOYken]

**** this is sad to hear. RIP pilot.

 

[marinersfan]

Bugger

 

[Dougsnake]

Very sad news RIP

 

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[KiwiTaff]

RIP Sir

 

[Subzero85]

Sad news, RIP to the pilot, and with the 80th d day anniversary coming up aswell

 

[FloppyPoppy]

RIP - Such a sad incident

 

[Deluxe1]

RIP to the unlucky pilot.

 

[Hades]

RIP to the pilot and the loss of a wonderful machine.

 

[Flibster]

Hearing that it had an engine failure shortly after take off and had to do a emergency landing in a field but flipped over.

 

[BDEE]

Very sad. Alas with the age of these planes it feels like it was somewhat inevitable that at some point something like this was going to happen if they kept on flying them.

I woner what the RAF will do following this in terms of maybe grounding what's left of them.

 

[megatron]

RIP

 

[NvidiaDan]

Very sad. Alas with the age of these planes it feels like it was somewhat inevitable that at some point something like this was going to happen if they kept on flying them.

I woner what the RAF will do following this in terms of maybe grounding what's left of them.

Aircraft of all ages can malfunction. The BBMF fleet are probably among the most well maintained aircraft in the country with many months of deep maintainence throughout the winter