On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:17:59 -0400, "Morgans"
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Did you hear about the one that survived the SAM strike?

No, but I would like to!

Basically, an African dignitary (president?) was riding along in a
Hawker escorted by at least one Angolan fighter.

Another Angolan fighter launched two heat-seekers at it. The first one
blew the #2 engine off the pylon and the second missile was decoyed by
the burning detached engine.

Some pieces penetrated the cabin, and there were some injuries
onboard, but it landed safely.

from http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/ne...m-threat01.htm

Although struck by an air-to-air missile, the Hawker 800 carrying
Juvénal Habyarimana, the president of Rwanda, shows what a manpad can
do. In the late 1980s, the business jet was flying over Angola when an
Angolan MiG-23 pilot attacked it with two heat-seeking air-to-air
missiles. The first warhead struck the right engine, tearing most of
it from the mounts and puncturing the pressure vessel. The second
missile locked onto the heat signature of the falling engine, which
spared the airplane and the president. After an emergency landing, the
Hawker was crated back to the UK and rebuilt to fly another day.

Pictures of it are tough to find, last ones I saw were at a Raytheon
Jet Ops Conference.

TC

P.S. looked at the midair pics again today at work-it really really
looks like the forward spar in the right wing is "seriously
compromised."