The title refers to the inscription on the handle by which the pilots who fear and stay away.
fact pulling handle that magic will catapult us, thanks to a rocket in the ejection seat out of the 'carrier in a few moments.
But let's get to the event that resulted in the loss of a device on the part of 'AM.
From September 17 to 28 Polish air forces have countered the 'hospitality granted dall'Aereonautica Italian Air Force, calling on fighter-bombers AMX "Ghibli" of 51 Squadron of the Air Base Istrana Powidz, based on 7 Elt, who a few months ago were fighting on the basis of Treviso with its Sukhoi-22.
In this period of time the transaction took place Italian Defender time to practice, in collaboration with up and over-22-20 in Poland, the polygon is 130 kilometers from Powidz.
The Italian side have worked eight seater AMX of 51 Squadron and a two-seater of the 101 ° group of 32 Squadron of Foggia Amendola. On
polygon were used inert weapons and operational, consisting of: GBU-16 class of 1000 pounds (450 kg) laser-guided bombs and inert Mk.82 real "free fall" and "retarded" Class 500 lbs.
Poles instead have used weapons, built for the Russian aircraft production, which included bombs free-fall, unguided rockets and napalm firebombs. The
sorties a day were about 24, carried out in the early days with the Polish pilots for the familiarization of the area, which lends itself very well to this kind of operation, however difficult to be developed in Italy. For it is not the first time that the 'Air Force Military "rests" the wheels on the basis of Powidz. To conclude the
'event we designed the' unexpected that manifested itself in the form of an accident, fortunately without casualties. In fact, September 25, around 11:00 am local, about 70 km from Poznan and 200 from Warsaw, is precipitated as a result of a "bird strike" (bird strike), a two-seater AMX belonging at 32 ° Amendola.
Salvi, however, the two pilots were on board: the Italian captain Michele Grassi of 132 Squadron of 51 Wing and Lt. Istrana Polish Grzegorz Golas that are launched with parachute. Recovered from an ambulance were transported to hospital for checks.
The aircraft had taken off with another AMX with mixed crew, to perform a training mission at low altitude.
Peter Tortello
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