F-16 caught fire at Florennes

[r.e.hendriks]

Op de militaire vliegtuigbasis in Florennes, in de provincie Namen, is deze namiddag rond 14 uur een F-16 ontploft. De oorzaak van de explosie is nog onbekend, melden Franstalige media. Zeker twee andere gevechtsvliegtuigen raakten beschadigd. Het is nog niet duidelijk of er gewonden zijn. Het ontplofte toestel stond geparkeerd aan het einde van de startbaan. Verschillende brandweerkorpsen zijn ter plaatse, meldt Sudinfo.

Hopelijk is iedereen ok.

Greetz Rob

[Stratofreighter]

...good grief...
https://www.sudinfo.be/id79642/article/ ... it-dautres
/
https://translate.google.com/translate? ... edit-text=

Florennes: an F16 explodes at the base and destroys others!

Published on Thursday 11 October 2018 at 14:49

This Thursday, around 14h, a violent explosion sounded at the Florennes airbase.
An F16 would have exploded.

An F16 parked at the end of the runway would, for some reason still unknown, explode. This explosion would have caused serious damage to other planes parked nearby.

It is still unclear whether there are wounded people among the personnel at the base.

Civilian firefighters from neighboring barracks were called in as reinforcements to contain the incident.
Two or more other aircraft would also have been damaged by this explosion.

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2018/10/11 ... florennes/

Het incident gebeurde tijdens het onderhoud van het toestel.
Een technicus raakte daarbij lichtgewond, hij werd ter plaatse verzocht.
Zeker een ander gevechtsvliegtuig liep ook schade op.

De precieze omstandigheden en de oorzaak worden onderzocht.

[frank kramer]

La Derniere Heure has a picture. Appears to have been in the southeastern maintenance area:

http://www.dhnet.be/regions/namur/flore ... 805c24a36d

And, @Rob: English flag... english text&title...

[Stratofreighter]

La Derniere Heure has a picture. Appears to have been in the southeastern maintenance area:

http://www.dhnet.be/regions/namur/flore ... 805c24a36d

And, @Rob: English flag... english text&title...

...well, "explodeert" is in Dutch,
but I suppose most readers on this forum can very well link this Dutch phrase to "explodes/explosion"

Oh well, back to topic,
I suppose the moderators can come up with a suitable English-language phrase to edit the subject title

[frank kramer]

The bottom line: one F-16 destroyed, one damaged. Two technicians injured, as in: suffering from hearing problems due to the explosion.

[Stratofreighter]

...is the picture at
https://www.lavenir.net/cnt/dmf20181011 ... de-la-base
indeed at Florennes

[Stratofreighter]

...several photos, also in close-up, thru
https://twitter.com/ebcrew00/status/1050418401603129346
now.

Do not know where these pictures originate from, nor the photographers...

FA-128 is "toast", now...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpPV6x_XcAAeGKq.jpg
is photoproof...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpPV6imWkAEG9Ls.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpPV8HdX4AIWAsZ.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpPV9IEW0AArOsm.jpg

[pipichantal]

Dark Falcon ?

[Kilo Bravo]

Twee technici zouden gehoorproblemen hebben opgelopen. Zij hebben ter plekke medische hulp gekregen, aldus Belgische media.

[Stafsels]

Aint fa101 dark falcon?
Aircraft looks to clean after the accident/incident to be wrapped into the colours of dark falcon prior to the fire.

Although i can not explain the thingies hanging from the vertical stabilo to the right.

Kind regards,

Stafsels

[Stratofreighter]

...the burn marks would perhaps have been less visible on "Dark Falcon"...

[witje]

Aint fa101 dark falcon?
Aircraft looks to clean after the accident/incident to be wrapped into the colours of dark falcon prior to the fire.

Although i can not explain the thingies hanging from the vertical stabilo to the right.

Kind regards,

Stafsels

The answer of Pipi was just ironic

[Mark B.]

According to THIS article (in Dutch) cause already known. By accident bullets (?!!) were fired from another plane, they hit F-16AM FA-128 with catastrofic results.

Edit: THIS article shows a picture with the bullet path.

[vanderveen]

[quote="Stafsels"]

Although i can not explain the thingies hanging from the vertical stabilo to the right.

Kind regards,

Stafsels[/quote]

The skin of the vertical stabilizer contains carbon fibre. Because of the fire the fibres came loose.
That one of the dangers of a damaged / crashed aircraft.

Hendrik

[Wildpicture]

According to THIS article (in Dutch) cause already known. By accident bullets (?!!) were fired from another plane, they hit F-16AM FA-128 with catastrofic results.

At least you have proof that the Vulcan M61 cannon is effective.......