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Title: The Strombird's first 262 crashes :(
Post by: DA98 on January 18, 2003, 06:33:17 AM: http://www.kirotv.com/news/1917269/detail.html (http://www.kirotv.com/news/1917269/detail.html)

(http://images.ibsys.com/2003/0117/1917249_120X90.jpg)

Pilot is OK, plane condition is unknown.
Title: The Strombird's first 262 crashes :(
Post by: GRUNHERZ on January 18, 2003, 06:41:38 AM: At least they fixed the traditional 262 nose gear collapse problems. :)
Title: The Strombird's first 262 crashes :(
Post by: StSanta on January 18, 2003, 10:39:10 AM: I wouldn't call that a crash. More like landing problems.
Title: The Strombird's first 262 crashes :(
Post by: Hangtime on January 18, 2003, 11:21:25 AM: Awwwww...

So sad. *yawn*

Perkies.... DENIED.
Title: The Strombird's first 262 crashes :(
Post by: hawk220 on January 18, 2003, 11:37:42 AM: :(

this was all over the news here in Seattle.. reports are that it the damage wasn't that awful bad and they can repair it and get it back in the air. it does look great flying tho.
Title: The Strombird's first 262 crashes :(
Post by: Ripsnort on January 18, 2003, 11:48:09 AM: Apparently a hydrolic failure that allowed the left LG to collapse partially. Should be relatively easy to repair. Awesome video from inside the cockpit on Television.
Title: The Strombird's first 262 crashes :(
Post by: Dinger on January 18, 2003, 12:23:11 PM: "the first jet aircraft"

man those newstypes can't get anything right.
Title: The Strombird's first 262 crashes :(
Post by: Fishu on January 18, 2003, 01:58:17 PM: Dinger,

The first widely operational jet?-)
Title: The Strombird's first 262 crashes :(
Post by: Ozark on January 18, 2003, 02:15:47 PM: AIR CRASH RESCUE NEWS:-----

January 18, 2003 - Test Jet Slides Off Paine Field Runway

EVERETT, Washington (USA) - - A reproduction Messerschmitt 262 jet aircraft on a test flight slid off the runway at Paine Field Friday.

The pilot, Wolfgang Czaia, escaped injury, and the plane appeared to have sustained only slight damage, airport director Dave Waggoner said. The first of five reproductions of the World War II German jet fighter, the two-seat aircraft experienced a landing gear failure as the pilot landed at about 3 p.m. and slid 300 feet off the main runway after the left main landing gear collapsed, Waggoner said.

Officials at the airport, also known as Snohomish County Airport, closed that runway, but two others remained open and flight operations were not affected, he said. "From looking at it, it doesn't appear to be much damage," Waggoner said, adding that repairs may require structural work on the landing gear.

The mishap caused no damage to the runway, he said. The Friday test flight was not the plane's first, Waggoner said. The aircraft is part of the Me 262 Project, in which a group is building five of the reproduction planes next to Boeing's wide-body airplane factory.

The one that crashed is the first to be completed. It made its maiden flight on Dec. 20. The plane is to be sold for about $2 million this spring to a retired judge and lawyer in Phoenix, who plans to use it in air shows.

A second plane is under construction and is about a year from completion. That plane is destined for the Messerschmitt Museum in Munich, Germany. The reproductions are modeled after the German version and look, but are made with new parts and more modern engines.