Yet another one down

[Princess Leia]

And India has lost another SU-30 due to an engine fire.

[Peter_K]

Polish Mi-24 crash landed in Afghanistan apparently due to the natural causes. Miraculously all 10 aboard walked away.

[Princess Leia]

Russian SU-27 down in their "Far East". All SU-27s are currently grounded pending the conclusion of the investigation. Pilot deceased.

http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20100116/157569514.html

[Marc 1]

Polish Mi-24 crash landed in Afghanistan apparently due to the natural causes. Miraculously all 10 aboard walked away.

Gravity?

[Princess Leia]

Polish Mi-24 crash landed in Afghanistan apparently due to the natural causes. Miraculously all 10 aboard walked away.

Gravity?

High cholesterol and an affinity for bratwurst.

[Peter_K]

Polish Mi-24 crash landed in Afghanistan apparently due to the natural causes. Miraculously all 10 aboard walked away.

Gravity?

Anything else than being hit by enemy or friendly fire. Gravity of course is always on the side of the earthbound.

[Marc 1]

Polish Mi-24 crash landed in Afghanistan apparently due to the natural causes. Miraculously all 10 aboard walked away.

Gravity?

High cholesterol and an affinity for bratwurst.

Nasty. Explosive diahorrea

[Princess Leia]

F-18D crash in Finland, both pilots ejected safely.

http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/news/2010/01/ ... 84722.html

[Princess Leia]

F-7 (Chinese MiG-21 ripoff) crashes in Burma. Pilot doesn't survive.

[Princess Leia]

After a bit of a lull in accidents, 3 more crashes to report.

USN and Taiwan bot lost T-34s.

Philipenes loses GAF Nomad, 9 killed, remaining fleet grounded.

[David Hilditch]

USN E-2C into the Arabian Sea, one of four crew missing.

[rattler]

CV-22 Osprey in A´stan, 4 dead:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100409/ap_ ... fghanistan

Rattler

[Princess Leia]

Spanish AB-212 down in Haiti. Aircraft was part of the quake relief efforts. 4 crew, no survivors.

[rattler]

Spanish AB-212 down in Haiti. Aircraft was part of the quake relief efforts. 4 crew, no survivors.

To give some faces to the dry news:

Luis Fernando Torija Sagospe; Francisco Forne Calderón; Manuel Dormido Garrosa; Eusebio Villatoro Costa



Very emotional directly transmitted funeral for the four Marines today, as for every soldier fallen, in presence of the President and Royality. The King awarded them with the Naval Merit Cross (yellow ribbon = during peace time), to the song (1:27 into the first vid) "La Muerto No Es El Final" (Death is not the end), everybody joined in, translation by yours truly:

Cuando la pena nos alcanza / When the pain touches us,
del compañero perdido, / (the pain) for the lost companion,
cuando el adiós dolorido / When the painful goodbye,
busca en la fe su esperanza: / searches for hope in faith:

En tu palabra confiamos / (Then) we trust (in) Your word,
con la esperanza que Tú / hoping that You:

ya lo has devuelto a la vida, / have already returned him to life,
ya lo has llevado a la luz. / have already brought him to the light.
(repeated)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRnvUjPf1YM

http://www.rtve.es/mediateca/videos/201 ... 9700.shtml




Rattler