Tornado Pilot Narrowly Avoids Mid-Air With Glider | Aero-News Network
Aero-News Network
RSS icon RSS feed
podcast icon MP3 podcast
Subscribe Aero-News e-mail Newsletter Subscribe

Airborne Unlimited -- Most Recent Daily Episodes

Episode Date

Airborne-Monday

Airborne-Tuesday

Airborne-Wednesday Airborne-Thursday

Airborne-Friday

Airborne On YouTube

Airborne-Unlimited-06.10.24

Airborne-NextGen-06.11.24

Airborne-Unlimited-06.12.24 Airborne-FltTraining-06.13.24

Airborne-Unlimited-06.14.24

Wed, Aug 07, 2013

Tornado Pilot Narrowly Avoids Mid-Air With Glider

Military Jet Was On A Low-Level Training Mission

The pilot of a Tornado fighter jet reportedly avoided colliding with a glider by a vertical separation of 100 feet in Aviemore in Scotland last week.

The RAF Tornado jet was on a low-level refueling and weapons training mission, according to a report in the U.K. newspaper the Daily Record and Sunday Mail. The glider and the Tornado were about 500 yards apart when the Tornado pilot saw the other aircraft and executed a maneuver called a "bunt" ... an inverted loop ... which took him just 100 feet below the slow-moving aircraft.

The Tornado pilot told the U.K. Airprox (Air Proximity) Board that the risk of collision was "very high" in the situation. The UKAP said that both pilots might have been fatally injured if the aircraft had collided.

The Tornado pilot said the white glider was "difficult to pick out" against the sky.

(Tornado pictured in file photo)

FMI: www.airproxboard.org.uk

Advertisement

More News

ANN FAQ: Submit a News Story!

Have A Story That NEEDS To Be Featured On Aero-News? Here’s How To Submit A Story To Our Team Some of the greatest new stories ANN has ever covered have been submitted by our>[...]

Aero-News: Quote of the Day (06.12.24)

“The legislation now includes a task force with industry representation ensuring that we have a seat at the table and our voice will be heard as conversations about the futur>[...]

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (06.12.24)

Aero Linx: Waco Museum The WACO Historical Society, in addition to preserving aviation's past, is also dedicated and actively works to nurture aviation's future through its Learnin>[...]

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (06.12.24): Adcock Range

Adcock Range National low-frequency radio navigation system (c.1930-c.1950) replaced by an omnirange (VOR) system. It consisted of four segmented quadrants broadcasting Morse Code >[...]

Airborne Affordable Flyers 06.06.24: 200th ALTO, Rotax SB, Risen 916iSV

Also: uAvionix AV-Link, Does Simming Make Better Pilots?, World Games, AMA National Fun Fly Czech sportplane manufacturer Direct Fly has finished delivering its 200th ALTO NG, the >[...]

blog comments powered by Disqus



Advertisement

Advertisement

Podcasts

Advertisement

© 2007 - 2024 Web Development & Design by Pauli Systems, LC