Red arrow incident

ringo747 · 8 Nov 2011 at 14:26

Quote from another forum...

"BBC lincs radio has stated that the pilot has died"

Terrible.

taliesyn · 8 Nov 2011 at 14:28

If the seat went off, that'll be all the T1s grounded again then. Hope the rumours of the person being dead are not true

Scon · 8 Nov 2011 at 14:29

ringo747 said:
Burrell what are you on? That was the previous incident. This incident was on the ground.

Yes because i made that article.....

Read it, make what you want of it.

ringo747 · 8 Nov 2011 at 14:30

burrell said:
Yes because i made that article.....

Read it, make what you want of it.

I have read it and you were quoting it out of context.

Flibster · 8 Nov 2011 at 14:30

Weren't the Hawks grounded earlier this year due to issues with the Mk10 ejection seat?

*edit - Sorry... was last year*

taliesyn · 8 Nov 2011 at 14:32

Flibster said:
Weren't the Hawks grounded earlier this year due to issues with the Mk10 ejection seat?

*edit - Sorry... was last year*

Yes. But that wasn't anything to do with them firing or the possibility of them firing.

DiCe! · 8 Nov 2011 at 14:33

I believe the seats are meant to be able to eject from ground level, deploy and land? Could be wrong....

Kerplunk · 8 Nov 2011 at 14:34

It's never good when they don't confirm the condition

Hoping for the best

Scon · 8 Nov 2011 at 14:34

delete

ringo747 · 8 Nov 2011 at 14:34

Some nonsense on Twitter when things like this happen.

"Maybe this is the time that the RAF finally got rid of the T1s and only use T2s."

Reading elsewhere that the seats are zero rated so it's possible.

taliesyn · 8 Nov 2011 at 14:34

DiCe! said:
I believe the seats are meant to be able to eject from ground level, deploy and land? Could be wrong....

As long as they are fairly level, then yes.

BBC now saying it's a pilot, and that he's seriously injured

Pixel · 8 Nov 2011 at 14:38

http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news?orderByOption=latest

Robbo · 8 Nov 2011 at 14:47

Doesn't sound good.

drunken fool · 8 Nov 2011 at 14:49

ringo747 said:
From someone at Scampton:

You may want to make it clear that is UNCONFIRMED as the original post in the forum you took that from says

theipodkid · 8 Nov 2011 at 14:51

Waiting for BBC news to come on in 9mins.
See what they say on there /:

ringo747 · 8 Nov 2011 at 14:55

drunken fool said:
You may want to make it clear that is UNCONFIRMED as the original post in the forum you took that from says

Edited.

drunken fool · 8 Nov 2011 at 14:56

Ringo747 - as that news is unconfirmed could you remove possible reference to the pilots name

drunken fool · 8 Nov 2011 at 15:01

Pike - could you edit your post as well if possible to remove the references to the aircraft/pilot. It's unconfirmed news

Pixel · 8 Nov 2011 at 15:02

Pixel said:
http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news?orderByOption=latest

Story headline changed from "believed dead" to "injured".

Scania · 8 Nov 2011 at 15:04

BBC Reporting 1 seriously injured in hospital.