Tornado Damaged, backseater ejected

[mrjake2002]

Tornado has landed back at marham with structural after the RIO/WSO ejected no chute seen,

ROAR 51 flight(F15) looking for backseater.

Taken off the UKAR forum - http://forums.airshows.co.uk/cgi-bin/uk ... =1;t=40649

R125 has casualty on board & en route to hospital

Not on any news networks, hopefully everything is OK. No more info as of yet.

[61_OTU]

Fingers crossed

[Anark]

It had a BAE Systems crew.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/7095214.stm

[Tom...]

I might be able to find out some more tonight, because Restcue 125 is a Wattisham based seaking and sometimes we use some of their building because our one was flooded...

[C]

Not looking good at all - with a normal ejection one would expect the nav's beacon to be transmitting almost instantaneously. Nice to see some of UKAR's "know it alls" coming up with a classic: the Tornado's "RIO"...

...er, we have WSOs (only just), or Navs...


I hope they find him alive, but I'm not getting my hopes up... :-/

[Craig.]

While the least important thing right now.
This wouldn't happen to have been the Saudi Tornado would it?

[Vapour01]

While the least important thing right now.
This wouldn't happen to have been the Saudi Tornado would it?

The Saudi operates out of Warton, so unlikely.

[mrjake2002]

Navigator dead according to the chaps on UKAR.  :(

[C]

While the least important thing right now.
This wouldn't happen to have been the Saudi Tornado would it?

The Saudi operates out of Warton, so unlikely.

A Tarnish call sign could have been operating from anywhere, probably Warton though. I suspect it was using the wash ranges. The Beeb are reporting the Nav has been found dead, and the seat has been found (possibly co located) near Sandringham (next to the Wash ranges). Non-commanded ejections have happened in the Tornado before, although the last I can think of was the collision with the TTTE bird and the C150 - in which the front seater was ejected out of the aircraft (after the Cessna hit the cockpit).

Could have been any Tonka - but being operated by a BAES staff crew. Either way it would have ended up at Marham as it is the nearest suitable diversion.

RIP.

[Vapour01]

While the least important thing right now.
This wouldn't happen to have been the Saudi Tornado would it?

The Saudi operates out of Warton, so unlikely.

A Tarnish call sign could have been operating from anywhere, probably Warton though. I suspect it was using the wash ranges. The Beeb are reporting the Nav has been found dead, and the seat has been found (possibly co located) near Sandringham (next to the Wash ranges). Non-commanded ejections have happened in the Tornado before, although the last I can think of was the collision with the TTTE bird and the C150 - in which the front seater was ejected out of the aircraft (after the Cessna hit the cockpit).

Could have been any Tonka - but being operated by a BAES staff crew. Either way it would have ended up at Marham as it is the nearest suitable diversion.

RIP.

Sky News are saying the aircraft was in an "inverted roll"? I know about the callsign, but the jet has been reported as being based at Marham.

RIP. :-/

[C]

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Sky News are saying the aircraft was in an "inverted roll"? I know about the callsign, but the jet has been reported as being based at Marham.

RIP. :-/

You're quite right. According to the latest it was a Marham based aircraft. As for the flight condidtions - no idea - I doubt it would have been intentionally inverted at low level, but you never know what it was doing, whether on a flight test, using the range etc.

Another case of wait and see methinks until the report appears.