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Iranian F-4 low level ....

mind the traffic !!

no, but Venezuela being an oil producing country, most likely the oil will provide the cash to pay for the SU30s.....

This afternoon.
Flight from Hamburg via Saarbrucken to Luxembourg.
Pilot aborted take off.
No one injured (16 pax, 4 crew)

http://www.wort.lu/de/lokales/am-mittwo ... 6a8ce614bd

some images :

http://www.rtl.lu/letzebuerg/713685.html

somebody has some explaining to do :

http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/3010 ... -explosion

http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/3010 ... pound-bomb

Aug 30th, Tyndall :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... GIzD6Ma6tc

oil most likely ....

reaction of President Maduro : 'Venezuela seeks to replace this SU30, and plans to buy at least 12 new SU30s from Russia (and military equipment from China) in order to defend airspace and combat drug trafficking'

source : Bloomberg

both pilots died in the crash

a training aircraft from Corpus Christi Naval Air Station crashed Saturday northwest of Las Cruses IAP.
crew of 2 (student and instructor) ejected.
1 of them was injured.

cause, serial and type unknown at this moment

yesterday a SU30 crashed near the Colombian border, after an 'illicit aircraft' believed to be Colombian was found violating airspace.
Fate of the 2 crew is unclear.
Also cause of the accident.

source : reuters

It has nothing to do with the fact that the official Spangdahlem shows pictures (taken by the PAO of Spangdahlem) with infrastructure, that one should post such pictures as well. As Pjotrtje said, it is just not to f*** up for your fellow spotters visiting Spangdahlem. With the many deployments the ...

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thx Jeroen