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A Turkish F-16 crashed today in the province of Konya.

The pilot, IIker Ozbil (34 y/o), could eject but was injured. He was transfered by helicopter to the medical center of Meram. He seems to be OK though.
The crash happened near the village of Altinapa Dam.

Source: Anatolia

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Glad the pilot's going to be OK Thumb

!!!

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Shake it off Ozbil. We'll get you another one. Salute

Glad the pilot's ok!

I found this article covering the crash on the web (Turkish):

http://www.stargazete.com/starextra/ind ... erid=53017

If one of our Turkish visitors could provide a brief summary of this article, that would help us a lot!

thanks,

stefaan

Newbie Joined: May 26, 2006 Posts: 8 Status: Offline

His correct name is "Ilker Ozdil".
His Block40 F-16 went into SEC mode 5-10 minute after takeoff. While gaining altitude and carrying out RTB, there occured a flameout. He tried to restart it 2 times but there was no reply. So he ejected 15NM from the base. Thank God he is OK, no injuries.

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Thank you for the additional information TurkishViper.

I have posted it in the article <a href="f-16_forum_viewtopic-t-8277.html">F-16 crashes in central Turkey - pilot safe</a>

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TurkishViper wrote:

His correct name is "Ilker Ozdil".
His Block40 F-16 went into SEC mode 5-10 minute after takeoff. While gaining altitude and carrying out RTB, there occured a flameout. He tried to restart it 2 times but there was no reply. So he ejected 15NM from the base. Thank God he is OK, no injuries.

In which squadron the F-16 belonged to?

God bless the Aces II, Another succesful operational check.
On a serious note though, Thank god he is o.k. Live to fight another day I always say.

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TurkishViper wrote:

His correct name is "Ilker Ozdil".
His Block40 F-16 went into SEC mode 5-10 minute after takeoff. While gaining altitude and carrying out RTB, there occured a flameout. He tried to restart it 2 times but there was no reply. So he ejected 15NM from the base. Thank God he is OK, no injuries.

Thanks!!! He did good.

The Turkish article Stefaan sent passes the words of a farmer witnessed the accidnet. The only extra info is that he says he saw a piece of the viper falling apart, then the plane crashed. Could these pieces be the external fuel tanks?

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reported as 91-0019 F-16C 4R-99, last noted 182 Filo

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Otto wrote:

The Turkish article Stefaan sent passes the words of a farmer witnessed the accidnet. The only extra info is that he says he saw a piece of the viper falling apart, then the plane crashed. Could these pieces be the external fuel tanks?

Since he punched out it may have been the canopy.

F-16.net Editor Joined: Aug 23, 2003 Posts: 1763

Need confirmation & further detail. Was the jet armed? One of the Turkish articles after some partial translation mentioned a 500m exclusion zone and reference to unexploded ordnance.

Newbie Joined: Dec 07, 2004 Posts: 15 Status: Offline

yes on one article its say that the aircraft have maybe a bomb that note is been explode sow the military close 500m range by aircraft and one air-force air crash investor is been come to place i am happy that the pilot is OK Smile

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And safety people in general not wanting stuff trampled on too much so they can do their investigation.

edit- removed reference to hydrazine as I don't hold any ratings on the jet. Laughing

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