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| IAF Pilot error determined as cause of fighter jet crash |
| 2018-02-25 |
| The downing of the Israeli F-16 jet in on February 10 by a Syrian anti-aircraft missile was due to an operational mistake on the part of the pilots, the IDF announced Sunday. "Between the tension of completing the mission while facing enemy missiles there was an operational mistake on the part of the team whose actions did not match the order of priorities required by the threat it was facing," a senior Israel Air Force officer said, explaining that the pilots did not take the proper evasive measures. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #5 Wow, you a Nighthawk ZF? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-02-25 20:57 |
| #4 They got to thinking they were flying a dump truck rather than a fighter bomber over defended air space. Something similar happened with the F-117A shot down over Yugoslavia. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2018-02-25 20:13 |
| #3 "an operational mistake" is what it's called when you get too far down in the enemy's 'threat fan'. A tactical mistake is when you don't remember to find out where the threat fan is. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2018-02-25 18:50 |
| #2 Had to be. Couldn't have been that the rocket hit the aircraft. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-02-25 17:44 |
| #1 ...That one doesn't make a lot of sense. The only thing I can think of that would go along with that was if the PIC got himself behind the curve and didn't fire countermeasures in time. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2018-02-25 17:44 |