Casualty...P.Terlouw wrote:somewhere in the early eighties this German Alpha Jet was transported back to Germany on a trailer. It is seen here leaving the airbase with the last houses of "Ons Belang" in the background. Anyone know the story behind this Alpha?
A Luftwaffe Alpha Jet of JaBoG49 was severely damaged in a wheels-up landing at Soesterberg AB, the Netherlands on march 13. The aircraft's hydraulic system failed on the approach to Soesterberg. The crew of two were not injured and the aircraft, serial 40+66 will be dismantled and returned to its base by road.
FLIGHT international, 11 april 1981
(According to the well-known database from Scramble this aircraft is flying in Portugal nowadays as 15221!)