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[Silent Knight]

A L-39 jet trainer of the VPAF has crashed.

This is a single-pilot flight, so there was no instructor on board, only the pilot trainee. The aircraft suffered technical malfunction during the flight, the pilot requested to stay on aircraft to attempt emergency landing. Sadly, he was killed during the landing.

 

[Nilgiri]

A L-39 jet trainer of the VPAF has crashed.

This is a single-pilot flight, so there was no instructor on board, only the pilot trainee. The aircraft suffered technical malfunction during the flight, the pilot requested to stay on aircraft to attempt emergency landing. Sadly, he was killed during the landing.

Sad. RIP to the pilot.

 

[Carlosa]

A L-39 jet trainer of the VPAF has crashed.

This is a single-pilot flight, so there was no instructor on board, only the pilot trainee. The aircraft suffered technical malfunction during the flight, the pilot requested to stay on aircraft to attempt emergency landing. Sadly, he was killed during the landing.

RIP to the pilot. Another example of heroism.

 

[xiao qi]

A L-39 jet trainer of the VPAF has crashed.

This is a single-pilot flight, so there was no instructor on board, only the pilot trainee. The aircraft suffered technical malfunction during the flight, the pilot requested to stay on aircraft to attempt emergency landing. Sadly, he was killed during the landing.

 

[Silent Knight]

The pilot trainee was only 22 years old.

 

[Carlosa]

Proof? Sure!

Look at those rusty looking birds, I think it can prove the quality of your "maintenance and overhaul capability".


Thanks @Viet for those photos.

@waz @Hu Songshan

Dear mods, sorry that I have to call you again, but this guy doesn't listen to your warnings and keeps coming here to troll, now he is making fun of a situation where a pilot just lost its life, please ban this guy.

 

[BoQ77]

RIP the young boy.
I posted repeatly in Vietnam forum about "Vietnam need new trainer aircrafts"
And another thing, the urbanization with help of local authorities approached too close to military airport everywhere.

What you guys think about the next purchase of fighters and trainers ? as we know that Russian style trainers are for Russian made fighters; and US trainers for US fighters.

 

[Silent Knight]

Same aircraft, after overhaul.

By the way, Su-27SK bort 6005 had extensive damage in the hull, not just an engine fire from bird strike. The cost of repair was more than half of a brand new Su-30MK2V, so it remains there. That doesn't mean we can't fix the Su-27 and Su-30 fleet, otherwise how could they keep flying after 20 years?

 

[Carlosa]

RIP the young boy.
I posted repeatly in Vietnam forum about "Vietnam need new trainer aircrafts"
And another thing, the urbanization with help of local authorities approached too close to military airport everywhere.

What you guys think about the next purchase of fighters and trainers ? as we know that Russian style trainers are for Russian made fighters; and US trainers for US fighters.

Vietnam was supposed to get some Yakovlev Yak-130s, but don't know when.

 

[Nilgiri]

Maybe Vietnam can look at the L-159 as well? I have heard really good things about it.

BTW, India license produces the Hawk AJT....if you sign a deal with BaE you can get them for cheap from India given the production line for Asia is set up here...and India is looking to move to the advanced Hawk that BaE is developing right now that Vietnam may be interested in too....of course this would be after your Yak-130 timeframe....for maybe more capability as your airforce expands down the road.

 

[Carlosa]

Vietnam Air Force jet crashes in Phu Yen, at least 2 killed

Thanh Nien News

PHU YEN - Friday, August 26, 2016 10:25Email Vietnamese aircraft goes missing while searching for lost pilot and fighter jet[/paste:font]

A Vietnam Air Force jet trainer crashed in Phu Yen just minutes after take-off this morning, killing at least one crew member and a civilian on the ground, a military officer said.
Vu Duc Quy, vice principal of the Vietnam Air Force Officers School, was quoted as saying by Tuoi Tre newspaper that a student of the school died in the accident.

The aircraft is a Czechoslovakia-made Aero L-39 Albatros belonging to Regiment 910 based in Phu Yen.
Witnesses said the aircraft crashed into National Highway 1 before plunging into a rice field, killing at least a person on the road.
The aircraft’s front portion, including the cockpit, is damaged.
Rescue efforts are underway.

Witnesses said the aircraft crashed into National Highway 1, killing at least a person on the road

Photo: Duc Huy

 

[BoQ77]

The typical US naval Aviator is going to see a couple years of training.

• Prior to going to the first training base, prospective Student Naval Aviators (SNAs) go through a couple weeks of ground school, take FAA tests, then go through 11 flights, culminating in soloing. This is new. Just a few years ago, you didn't have this step.
• Once at the primary training base, the SNA goes though a 6-week Aviation Preflight Indoctrination. This includes the most intense physical exam you've likely been through, physical fitness testing, academic instruction, water and land survival, altitude chamber rides, various aviation-specific survival courses, and some military training.
• Primary flight training is 22 weeks, mixing ground instruction, simulators, and flights in the T-6A Texan II.

If you have the grades and there are open slots, you can select the jet pipeline. This will send you to another training base.

• Intermediate Strike (jet) training is 27 weeks flying the T-45 Goshawk. It amounts to familiarization, formation, instruments, night, and basic airway navigation flying.
• Advanced Strike is 23 weeks in the same jet. It focuses on advanced instrument flying, tactical formation, air combat maneuvering, bombing, low level nav, and culminates in landing aboard the carrier. Completing this phase earns the SNA wings of gold.

Naval Aviators will be assigned to their fleet aircraft based on the needs of the Navy. The number one pilot traditionally gets the pick, but everyone else is at the whims of the service.

• Training the chosen aircraft is done at the Fleet Replacement Squardon and amounts to about 9 months of training that mirrors all of the training in the intermediate and advanced pipeline, but in the new aircraft. The final phase of the training is becoming carrier qualified in the jet and seeing the carrier for the first time at night.

After completing the RAG (short for "Replacement Air Group", the old name), aviators will be assigned to an active squadron, where they will undergo further training in advanced weapons delivery and maneuvering. It's here that an aviator can see combat right out of the gate, so I guess you can say that everything above this paragraph is what needs to happen before one can be called a "fighter pilot", but the learning never stops.

 

[xiao qi]

Sis @xiao qi What he is trying to tell you is that the J-10 and J-11 fighters have accidents like crazy (mostly because of very bad chinese engines). The chinese troll seems to have forgotten that.

yup, I don't know what is the meaning of MRO. so i can't answer to him. Forgive me . Thank you @Carlosa

 

[Nilgiri]

yup, I don't know what is the meaning of MRO. so i can't answer to him. Forgive me . Thank you @Carlosa

MRO = Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul.

Hope it helps you dear!

 

[xiao qi]

MRO = Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul.

Hope it helps you dear!

When i used google, it said : MRO : Summary for Marathon Oil Corporation Common