Oopsy, RAF Eurofighter lands gear-up at China Lake

[rhinoh82]

OOPS!! Landing in a girlfriends private gardens and now doing a belly landing in a new jet. The RAF is really outdoing itself.

It's ok though, an RAF spokesman said that this happens from time to time.

I'm not a pilot so I cannot confirm that statement, but I envision a Squadron CO in the US looking a little something like this :icon_rage if that was one of their planes.

 

[Blutonski816]

link??

 

[NavAir42]

Gear warning horn anyone?

 

[Praying4OCS]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353665,00.html

 

[HeyJoe]

link??

This news report looks to be it! It couldn't be because the pilot was distracted by thoughts of a wild time at the Lake O'Club or anywhere else in Ridgecrest for that matter!

 

[TopShot]

Thats almost as retarded as this (could have been a gear failure but I no think so :icon_tong)---> Belly Takeoff

 

[Herc_Dude]

Thats almost as retarded as this (could have been a gear failure but I no think so :icon_tong)--->

With that title "Belly T/O" I was thinkin the guy was gonna keep the power in and takeoff - if you can even do that.

'tard prop guy - out

 

[CWJones411]

With that title "Belly T/O" I was thinkin the guy was gonna keep the power in and takeoff - if you can even do that.

'tard prop guy - out

lol. I was waiting for the same thing.

 

[nittany03]

Aaaaaaand that's one more low transition porked away . . .

 

[FLY_USMC]

3/4 of the way through look closely, it looks like he tries to put the landing gear back down? WTF over.

 

[Lawman]

3/4 of the way through look closely, it looks like he tries to put the landing gear back down? WTF over.

Gear handle in the up position with enough lift to trip the weight off the wheels sensor but not enough to actually rotate.

Just a guess.

 

[Blutonski816]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353665,00.html

I find it comical how the article refers to the pilot as "top gun"

 

[nittany03]

3/4 of the way through look closely, it looks like he tries to put the landing gear back down? WTF over.

Reminds me of the truism that if you look in the cockpit of every aircraft which has ever landed gear up, you will find the gear handle in the DOWN position! "It wasn't my fault! Really!"

 

[Schnugg]

I saw a Sea Harrier pilot from the UK do this at an airshow in P'Cola around 1986. He was doing some Vertical take off and landing stuff, demoing how it works up down, etc in front of an airshow crowd....came down on the fuselage.

They trucked the jet away.

He'd been out the night before partying...

 

[BACONATOR]

I saw a Sea Harrier pilot from the UK do this at an airshow in P'Cola around 1986. He was doing some Vertical take off and landing stuff, demoing how it works up down, etc in front of an airshow crowd....came down on the fuselage.

They trucked the jet away.

He'd been out the night before partying...

I take it he flew no more air shows?