Warplanes crash in Spain leaving 3 pilots dead

[HunterICX]

On the news today, for a reason still unknown 2 Mirage F-1 jets collided.

MADRID, Spain – Two Spanish Mirage F-1 warplanes crashed during a training mission Tuesday, killing all three crew members on board, the Defense Ministry said.


http://www.gmanews.tv/story/145098/Warplanes-crash-in-Spain-leaving-3-pilots-dead (http://www.gmanews.tv/story/145098/Warplanes-crash-in-Spain-leaving-3-pilots-dead)

HunterICX

[SteamWake]

Sorry to hear abou this but.. wait... "Two planes went down killing all 3 ?"

[Dowly]

Ouch. :-? 4 Mirages down in 5 years? I think they should start looking for a new plane. :hmm:

[SteamWake]

Ouch. :-? 4 Mirages down in 5 years? I think they should start looking for a new plane. :hmm:

I heard a news story where the Airbus that ditched in the hudson had an air compressor failure on one of its engines a few day earler.

Mirage=French, Airbus=French... :hmm:

[Jimbuna]

Yeah....4 in about as many years.......not a nice average/statistic http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1817/thinkbigsw1yo4.gif

[PeriscopeDepth]

Ouch. :-? 4 Mirages down in 5 years? I think they should start looking for a new plane. :hmm: Not at all. Operating single engine fast jets is risky, there is no way around that. I count 8 USAF F-16s lost from 3/2007-3/2008. Not one of them to enemy fire, I believe.

It's a dangerous business, and such things unfortunately happen.

PD

[A Very Super Market]

Midair collisions tend to bring down most planes, so you can forget about a small high-performance (or used to be) surviving. Pilot error?