G-222 crash at RAF Fairford 2002 www.globemaster.de

[blanca1aragonfebles]

I thought you would not recover the flight! took a nosedive and done track! risked much the pilot!

[Lenangreal]

lol these are the cool things in air shows

[5t3o9m]

"As you can see ladies and gentlemen there was a small problem with the undercarriage" Of course there was. The pilot landed going too fast and thus there was too much force on the front landing gear to stop! Also when he landed, the front gear touched before the main gear did. Just another video of a bad pilot.

[robertgift]

Good job of missing the fire department's initial attack of the fire with dry chemical extinguisher.

Glad they did not flood it with foam which would hamper the air show.

Cause? Landing looked OK and not "hard".

[planeops123]

Worst touch and go ever

[AirSimming]

The pilot overstressed the nosewheel by touching down on it first instead of the main gear. One can see this at 0:25 and the plane bounces of the runway and touches down with the nose gear once again, but even harder. When the pilot applies the brakes the braking force finally causes the gear struts to fully fail: 0:32

[5t3o9m]

@AirSimming im taking an aircraft maintenance engineering course and i totally agree.

[sarduss]

it could have been a lot worse,plane manage to handle the crash means well designed,but the fire service was crap....

[mclarenrock]

@sarduss

would you have done it better yourself would you? how else would you approach this? retard

aircraft was recovered fine, the whole idea of fire cover is to save lives. dick

[sarduss]

@mclarenrock yes we would be faster,just let u know i was in service in airport, fire service ,and i can tell u that a fire brigade take up to 5 second or less to respond....u dick!!!!

[paulplusmike]

i went to this years riat fairford show and was hoping for something like this to happen

but all i got was some bloke falling off his motocross bike

check out my video

[Hollenvaen]

I remember this...I remember thinking "it could have been a lot worse" - and let's be fair, this was no-where near as bad as it could have been. Thankfully.

[01lawsda]

I remember this, I was 12 back then and the smell of this burnt rubber and metal was horrible. They had to fly in some C-130's from lyneham to fill the lost time!

[rcpeach11]

Ironically the previous year the same G222 crew legged it out the back because of a bird strike in the right engine. When it was found to be fine they were sent back to remove it from the runway, as they were told to do when landing. I believe they were retired from displays after this one due to their poor luck. I was sat opposite where it stopped upon the runway. It made for a very quiet hour of waiting.

[DimLightable]

Yeah Dan got me here too O.o

[TheImpromptuChef]

Thumbs up if Dan 3.0 oddly got you here

[wrigley090]

I was sitting right next to the end of the runway with an MOD policeman. So cool. I'm going again this year!

[666DarkEgo]

@wrigley090 same, im with the air training core :D

[motorolla73]

Nice fast response from the fire service.......not!!!

[jdrepiv]

YEH! didnt you see the RIV sat at the side? It didnt move, just sat there with its blues on!