Airplane collision over Bad Laer
| Airplane collision over Bad Laer | |
|---|---|
 A Hawker Siddeley Harrier T.4 |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Airplane collision in the air |
| place | Bad Laer |
| date | February 18, 1985 |
| Fatalities | 1 |
| 1. Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Harrier T.4 trainer XW933 |
| operator | Royal Air Force |
| Departure airport | Gutersloh Airport |
| crew | 2 |
| Survivors | 1 |
| 2. Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Lockheed F-104G |
| operator | Air Force (Bundeswehr) |
| Mark | 683D-7416 |
| Departure airport | Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base |
| Destination airport | Eggebek Air Base |
| crew | 1 |
| Survivors | 1 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
In the aircraft collision over Bad Laer on February 18, 1985, a Harrier of the Royal Air Force and a starfighter of the naval aviation collided and crashed.
course
A Hawker Siddeley Harrier of the No. 3 Squadron of the Royal Air Force from Gütersloh and a Lockheed F-104G "Starfighter" of Marinefliegergeschwader 2 from Eggebek Air Base were independently on training flights on February 18, 1985 when the planes collided over Bad Laer around noon .
The pilot of the Lockheed F-104G was still trying to reach the RAF airport in Gütersloh; but since the machine caught fire as a result of the collision, he decided to leave it, so that the aircraft crashed into a field south of Bad Laer in Hesselteich , a district of Versmold .
The Harrier crashed into the forest next to the Bad Laer waterworks. While the student pilot, sitting in the front, was able to save himself with the ejector seat, the flight instructor was probably already killed in the collision.
Web links
- Aviation Safety Network (Harrier)
- Aviation Safety Network (Starfighter)
- F-104 losses
- Sporting Group Gütersloh (pictures, also of the injured Harrier)
- Accident report from the Ministry of Defense London, November 12, 1985 (PDF file)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 30 years ago a fighter plane crashed in Bad Laer. In: NOZ. February 18, 2015, accessed August 31, 2016 .
- ↑ F-104G 26 + 70 Marinefliegergeschwader 2 (MFG 2) in February 1985. In: 916-starfighter.de. Retrieved August 31, 2016 .
- ↑ www.ejection-history.org.uk ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 31, 2016)
