[quote][b][url=/v3/forum/europe-14/topic/suomen-ilmavoimat-finlande-315/?post=28004#post-28004]ex-zebigbos[/url] a dit le 25/01/2010 à 13:05 :[/b]

Quelques infos suplémentaires...[quote]The crew of a Finnish air force Boeing F-18D escaped without life-threatening injuries when their recently restored aircraft crashed during a training flight on 21 January.

The Finnish air force says the pilots ejected from an altitude of around 14,800ft (4,500m), with the aircraft having then crashed in a field in a sparsely populated area near the town of Juupajoki, around 175km (95nm) north of Helsinki.

Both pilots were recovered by rescue helicopter (Copterline Eurocopter EC135 OH-HCO pictured above) and flown to hospital to receive medical treatment.

[b]Service sources later told local media that the aircraft was believed to have lost control after going into a tail slide following a high-speed dive.[/b]

The loss was the second mishap to have involved aircraft HN-468 inside a decade. The two-seat trainer had been badly damaged in a mid-air collision with a Finnish F-18C in November 2001, and had been returned to flight only last month (below) after a major rebuild programme performed by Patria.

Nicknamed the "Frankenhornet", it had returned to flight status on 3 December 2009, following the completion of a roughly 100,000h programme to bring it back to operational use.

Patria repaired the aircraft using structures sourced from a damaged F-18C, with major activities having included fitting a new starboard wing, engine intake and control surfaces, and making repairs to the aircraft's centre fuselage longeron.

The air force has appointed a committee to investigate the cause of the accident, and says its work "will take months to complete".[/quote]Source : http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/article.aspx?liArticleID=337518&PrinterFriendly=true[/quote]