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Emergency landing Dutch F-16 in Belgium

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CHARLEROI - Door een noodlanding op de luchthaven van Charleroi in België heeft een Nederlandse F-16 het vliegverkeer verstoord. De straaljager raakte beschadigd waardoor brokstukken (?????) op de landingsbaan terechtkwamen. Ook lekte de F-16 brandstof. Er is geen sprake van slachtoffers. Dat meldden Vlaamse media. Het vliegverkeer is enkele uren gestremd.

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A Dutch F-16 made an emergecy landing at Charleroi. Due to debris on the runway the airfield is currently closed.
The pilot left the plane unharmed.

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Callsign should be M2926, so probably an F-16 operating out of or onits way to/from Charleroi
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Re: Emergency landing Dutch F-16 in Belgium

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wamovements wrote:CHARLEROI - Door een noodlanding op de luchthaven van Charleroi in België heeft een Nederlandse F-16 het vliegverkeer verstoord. De straaljager raakte beschadigd waardoor brokstukken (?????) op de landingsbaan terechtkwamen. Ook lekte de F-16 brandstof. Er is geen sprake van slachtoffers. Dat meldden Vlaamse media. Het vliegverkeer is enkele uren gestremd.

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A Dutch F-16 made an emergecy landing at Charleroi. Due to debris on the runway the airfield is currently closed.
The pilot left the plane unharmed.

TAIL NUMBER J-640
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Re: Emergency landing Dutch F-16 in Belgium

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http://www.standaard.be/artikel/detail. ... 110408_055

http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/b ... 110408_F16

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Re: Emergency landing Dutch F-16 in Belgium

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en op NOS Teletekst pagina 122
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Bennie wrote:en op NOS Teletekst pagina 122
Has Teletekst got the video as well ? :twisted: :wink:
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Re: Emergency landing Dutch F-16 in Belgium

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F-16 sitting on its belly....
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Re: Emergency landing Dutch F-16 in Belgium

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Forgotten to extend it's landinggear or landinggear collapsed (main and nose) ? Belgium website mentions it's a maintenance flight druing maintenance with Sabca
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Re: Emergency landing Dutch F-16 in Belgium

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Looks like the landing gear collapsed during touch down (main wheel doors are open) and I think "emergency landing" isn't correct, as the aircraft tried to perform a normal touch and go during a test-flight. Other sources reported that the nosewheel wouldn't deploy....

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Re: Emergency landing Dutch F-16 in Belgium

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J-640 is one of the F-16's sold to Chili. That is also the reason it is at Charleroi.
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video:http://www.rtl.be/info/votreregion/hain ... c-perturbe
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Re: Emergency landing Dutch F-16 in Belgium

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And besides the video-link above :idea: the screenshot below:

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Re: Emergency landing Dutch F-16 in Belgium

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french text at rtl.be has it that the aircraft suffered damage to the tail during a touch and go after which the aircraft belly-landed immediately. If this is a correct observation it might mean a tailstrike occurred. The belly-landing might then be explained by the fact the gear was already retracting at that moment (hence the open main gear doors)..
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Re: Emergency landing Dutch F-16 in Belgium

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Due to debris on the runway the airfield is currently closed.
Judging by the screenshot, that is indeed quite a big piece of debris :lol:

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Re: Emergency landing Dutch F-16 in Belgium

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Saves a lot of sanding paper for the paintjob that was about to be done!
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