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Airman Forgets to Lower Wheels, Crashes $136 Million U.K. Fighter Jet A Royal Air Force top gun crash-landed a new $136.3 million Typhoon fighter — apparently after forgetting to put the wheels down during a training exercise in California. The state-of-the-art jet was badly damaged as it skidded along a runway on its belly at 130 mph. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353665,00.html
 
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| I've heard that the Direct Voice Input for certain systems on this type Typhoon has a tendancy to habit the pilot into not having to look down at the controls as much as earlier types without DVI, and if he overrode the breaker for the bitching betty ground prox voice warning, may have not noticed the light on the ground warning indicator....and didn't lower the gear in fine oh-shit fighter jock fashion! They'll ship her back to the UK to salvage the phoon...sounds like they are pushing this multi-role Eurofighter hard to replace aging Harrier and Jaguar fleet.
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I predict this pilot will be flying something with propellers and maybe fixed landing gear for the remainder of his career! Dang busy cockpit...shoulda read his before landing checklist.
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I went back and thumbed through one of our pilots checklists...yep right there it says, LANDING GEAR - "Down" (PNF). 
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I predict this pilot will be flying something with propellers and maybe fixed landing gear for the remainder of his career! Dang busy cockpit...shoulda read his before landing checklist. Nah!! His ass will be lucky if he ever flies anything but a desk for the rest of his miserable career. Bend a bird and it is pilot error, stuck a fork in ya, you are done!!
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| At 6 million (3 million BP) to train a RAF pilot, I highly doubt his flying days in the Typhoon are over. The UK is short on phoon pilots and can't afford to loose any right now, even if it was a ba-phoon mistake. They are headed to A-stan for strike missions "Johnny on the Spot". Beside, I know a couple of US Navy flyers who've crashed a bird more than once and they are still flying same type ac and it didn't ruin their careers. One went on to be East Coast Strike Fighter Wing CO...Capt Tom "Big Comet" Halley from Clarksville, TN.
"Let's Go Downtown" - Flight of the Intruder
http://www.327infantry.org/second/c_co Same Mud Same Blood - NBC documentary filmed 1967 RVN, chronicle Frank McGee
IMOFSGT Nelson P. Henry101st 2nd/327th -NO SLACKKIA October 28, 1967 in QuangTin Province RVN
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