ME109 Crash at Berlin Airport

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ME109 Crash at Berlin Airport

Post by :FI:Wardog » Wed May 28, 2008 9:45 am

Just been checking out sky news and saw this:

http://video.news.sky.com/skynews/video ... 8_0700.flv

Reminds me of sunday evenings landing fun :lol: :lol:

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Re: ME109 Crash at Berlin Airport

Post by :FI:Genosse » Wed May 28, 2008 12:06 pm

:FI:Wardog wrote:Just been checking out sky news and saw this:

http://video.news.sky.com/skynews/video ... 8_0700.flv

Reminds me of sunday evenings landing fun :lol: :lol:

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What a shame!!! :evil: :(

At least the pilot wasn´t injured ... :roll:
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Re: ME109 Crash at Berlin Airport

Post by :FI:Sneaky_Russian » Wed May 28, 2008 1:25 pm

Pity - they should have known though -
The main undercarriage unit is a clean design, but apparently not an example of good engineering, as undercarriage-related accidents happened all too often on Bf 109s.
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Re: ME109 Crash at Berlin Airport

Post by :FI:Murph » Mon Jun 02, 2008 4:06 pm

Yeah, more 109s were lost in takeoff/landing accidents than were shot down. And a LOT of them were shot down. Old Willie must have been well connected politically to have kept this airframe in production so long- I once read somewhere that Galland requested that the 109 be phased out entirely in favor of the 190.
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Re: ME109 Crash at Berlin Airport

Post by :FI:Bowling Bob » Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:22 am

this proofs that the quality off those Germonian planes are rubbish .....

but big =D] for the pilot nice forced landing..outstanding steering!

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