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By: 22nd August 2019 at 14:19 Permalink
-A photo from the website below shows it to be PL983. Good to hear reports of the pilot being okay though.
https://www.hvzeeland.nl/nieuws/39113-ongeluk-met-vliegtuig-op-midden-zeeland/
Rich
By: 22nd August 2019 at 14:22 Permalink - Edited 22nd August 2019 at 14:22
-Beat me to it - there is/was a contingent heading here: https://www.vliegshowede.nl/en/program
Glad pilot is ok, such a shame - but am sure she'll be up and running again in no time
TT
By: 22nd August 2019 at 14:24 Permalink
-That looks as though it could have been a whole lot worse. Translate munches the meaning a little, but it looks like a fairly non-sensational news report. No second world war fighter jets doing dangerous aerobatics and the pilot ejecting, anyway!
Adrian
By: 22nd August 2019 at 14:36 Permalink
-Ohhh Bum, it flew past here this morning way in the distance, glad the pilot is ok and looks like a wings off back to DX trip,
By: 22nd August 2019 at 16:07 Permalink
-Looks like it could have been a lot worse indeed, AG. She almost ended on her back... I got sent a video, but can't upload it for some reason. She was literally standing on her spinner for a second before she fell back on her remaing undercarriage.
By: 22nd August 2019 at 16:45 Permalink
-Holymoley, someone is a very lucky boy, that could have been very nasty indeed!
Adrian
By: 22nd August 2019 at 17:03 Permalink
-On the subject of bent Spitfires anyone know what’s happening with the French spit that dig in and tore itself apart during take off a few years ago again with pilot not hurt?
By: 22nd August 2019 at 17:34 Permalink
-I was under the impression its under rebuild
By: 22nd August 2019 at 17:45 Permalink
-It is, I saw it at the end of last year, wings were going back together and fuselage was about to go in the jig.
FB
By: 22nd August 2019 at 18:10 Permalink
-It's at arco and I'd guess nearing completion
By: 22nd August 2019 at 20:18 Permalink
-That could have been so much worse!
Great news is the damage can and will be repaired, and no harm came to the pilot.
By: 22nd August 2019 at 22:29 Permalink
-Surely the drop back down would've damaged the fuselage????
By: 23rd August 2019 at 11:40 Permalink
-Won't have done it any good - wonder if he's got his lottery ticket today?...
By: 23rd August 2019 at 12:05 Permalink
-Surely the drop back down would've damaged the fuselage????
...but not as much as if it had gone over.
Adrian
By: 23rd August 2019 at 12:39 Permalink
-Surely the drop back down would've damaged the fuselage????
Depends if it was controlled or not guess
By: 23rd August 2019 at 13:32 Permalink
-This is J R's 'own' Spitfire, so is likely to be nursed back to health without delay. If it needs a spell in the jigs for remedial work, they are all geared up to do it.
PT462 was fast-tracked back to airworthiness in a matter of months in the spring , all you need is resourses, experience, motivation.........and a few quid, I imagine !
By: 24th August 2019 at 01:11 Permalink
-And it has how many hrs. on it??? poor beastie. looked messy.
By: 24th August 2019 at 07:10 Permalink
-Glad to hear pilot ok. That airframe doesn’t seem to fair too well in Europe.
By: 24th August 2019 at 08:14 Permalink
-I guess with the airframe its all down to how it dropped back after the nose up, so so glad it did not go all the way over.
I am surprised that there is not a video popping up of it as I very much doubt a Spitfire lands without a phone being pointed at it these days
By: 24th August 2019 at 12:23 Permalink
-As ever speculation about what damage might have been caused in the mishap is fairly pointless. The guys who maintain it know what to look for , know whether it can be fixed on spot or recovered to base on a truck, and know what to do in order to get it back up in the skies again. Its just engineering.
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By: Fournier Boy - 22nd August 2019 at 13:57
https://www.omroepzeeland.nl/nieuws/114783/Historisch-vliegtuig-crasht-op-vliegveld-Midden-Zeeland
Pilot reported ok. Unknown which one as of yet
FB