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Title: somebody know what went down
Post by: SirFrancis on October 18, 2011, 04:58:45 PM

...on this vid you see a aircraft crashing. Does any1 know what type of aircraft it was?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=y4SXZCx5N3c

Title: Re: somebody know what went down
Post by: Wolfala on October 18, 2011, 05:02:49 PM

Quote from: SirFrancis on October 18, 2011, 04:58:45 PM

...on this vid you see a aircraft crashing. Does any1 know what type of aircraft it was?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=y4SXZCx5N3c

Iranian IL-78 tanker collided with an F-5.

Title: Re: somebody know what went down
Post by: SirFrancis on October 18, 2011, 05:05:40 PM

Thx!

Title: Re: somebody know what went down
Post by: RufusLeaking on October 18, 2011, 08:33:35 PM

Quote from: Wolfala on October 18, 2011, 05:02:49 PM

Iranian IL-78 tanker collided with an F-5.

That would explain why there is an F-4 in the foreground.

Title: Re: somebody know what went down
Post by: Babalonian on October 19, 2011, 05:55:23 PM

Quote from: Wolfala on October 18, 2011, 05:02:49 PM

Iranian IL-78 tanker collided with an F-5.

I'm assuming this is the same relatively famous clip and incident looking rearward from another tanker?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Iranian_Air_Force_mid-air_collision

That aircraft had an interesting history, it was actualy an Il-76MD that was converted to a tanker for I think Iraq, and then it and its crew fled to Iran in '91 during the first gulf war, where they were short tankers/AWACs, so they kept it.  The Iraqis supposedly converted it to an AWACS/Tanker settup, and I think Iran at the time had no AWACs.