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Su-30s Got A Little MiG In Them
On Dec 10, 4:14*pm, William Black wrote:
Ron wrote: On Dec 10, 11:29 am, Dennis wrote: Ron wrote: I once watched an Su-30 on fire, going off the runway with *no brakes, into the arrest barrier. Indian government later denied the entire thing every happened, and said that the entire incident was just a pre-planned drill... * * * * Now *that's* what I call a Chinese fire drill! *:-) Dennis It was interesting how it all turned out. * It could have actually turned out a bit different and had me in the center of it all. I was flying out of a Indian dual use air base that year, and I had just finished leaving the runway after our mission was aborted. * I pulled off the runway, go down the short distance to the taxiway to our parking spot. *And just as I am about to shut down, one of their Su-30s flies over the parking ramp rather low, and I was wondering WTF? That was shortly followed by the sight of the other Su-30, on fire from the rear, and apparently with no brakes, going down the runway where I had just been a couple of minutes earlier. * I think the runway was slightly downhill too, and so it went right into the raised arrest barrier. * There was quite a commotion after that, with fire trucks, etc out there and a lot of people. *Unfortunately, getting a photo was highly illegal there, and I would have been arrested for it. * Usually photography at any Indian airport is taboo, and especially someplace withe IAF pride and join, Su-30MKI. So the next day in the paper, there is an article about an IAF Su-30 having making an emergency landing, which was true. *Apparently an engine failed badly, taking out hydraulics with it, which is what was burning from the rear. Two days later, that story has now evolved into it being a precautionary landing,with no real emergency. Two more days later, story changes once again to it not being either one of those, but now it was just a drill, planned in advance, with no aircraft problem at all. While I'm sure the Indian military authorities would love to make an incident like that disappear, *I very much doubt the Indian press would.. -- William Black Well, it pretty much did disappear. |
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