PAF unmanned plane crashes in Sarghoda

[Nahraf]

Pakistan air force unmanned plane crashes - People's Daily Online

A pilotless plane of the Pakistan Air Force crashed in the area of Sargodha city of Punjab province on Tuesday, local media reported.

According to reports the plane was on regular rehearsal and test flights when it fell and crashed due to technical reasons. Security forces reached the site and started collecting the remnants of the jet.

Source: Xinhua

source http://geo.tv/7-13-2010/u113174.htm

The Urdu news says it was a pilotless Falcon. Was it a F-16 Falcon ?

 

[Hyde]

it was reported yesterday in Notify Aircraft Crashes dedicated thread for this purpose.

Please merge/delete

http://www.defence.pk/forums/military-aviation/3718-notify-aircraft-crashes-49.html

PS: Thank God there is no loss of human (UAV), so this is not a very important news in my eyes which requires a dedicated thread

 

[S_O_C_O_M]

PAF’s unmanned aircraft crashes in Sargodha​

Wednesday, July 14, 2010


From Our Correspondent

SARGODHA: An unmanned surveillance aircraft of the Pakistan Air Force on Tuesday crashed due to a technical fault at 96/NB, the police said.

Salex Galileo Falco was on a routine flight when it crashed at 11.45am and fell in a garden. The villagers informed the Sadr police about the wreckage of the aircraft. Later, the PAF and law-enforcement agencies reached the spot and cordoned off the area. No loss of life and property was reported. The PAF authorities have launched a probe into the crash after removing the aircraft’s wreckage. The Falco was included in the PAF squad in 2009 and it was manufactured by Pakistani engineers with the cooperation of Italy. The aircraft is capable of carrying heavy payloads. However, it is expected that it will be able to carry guided bombs in future.

SARGODHA City News

 

[Nahraf]

Salex Galileo Falco was on a routine flight when it crashed at 11.45am and fell in a garden.

It was UAV ! Why do they call it "pilotless" ?

 

[S_O_C_O_M]

When I first glanced at the thread title I thought an F-16 crashed. Almost died of a heart attack. I need to get bigger glasses.

 

[Kompromat]

That was a Phalco not Phalcon.

 

[Nahraf]

That was a Phalco not Phalcon.

It was Falco and neither Phalco nor Phalcon. Phalcon AEW&C is built by illegal Zionist entity also sold to Indians.

 

[Kompromat]

It was Falco and neither Phalco nor Phalcon. Phalcon AEW&C is built by illegal Zionist entity also sold to Indians.

I know its Falco built by Salex Galileo , i was just trying to copy the urdu interpretation of Falcon

These newspapers are dumb when it comes to Defense news.

 

[Dazzler]

They were testing it with heavier payloads which is not a standard Falco payload. Testing will proceed....

 

[Kompromat]

This news says it didn't crash in the first place , whats going on?

 

[Awesome]

They were testing it with heavier payloads which is not a standard Falco payload. Testing will proceed....

Damn, this is huge. It confirms all the rumors that we indeed have a UCAV program in development... They are a stage of testing heavy payloads on the bird. Great stuff.

 

[S_O_C_O_M]

Isn't U.S. going to give Pakistan drones and then Turkey said it will arm them missiles.

 

[QADRI]

according to the news I got PAF is testing this UAV beyond its limits, and some of them knew that this UAV will not tolerate this presssure. So it crashed. Anyhow thanks God that was just a test flight.

 

[fatman17]

it was a local UAV which malfunctioned, its parachute opened but it crash-landed with minor damage.

back to the workshop!

 

[zavis2003]

uavs here not much costly so dont worry abut them really


be relax now