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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