RN Hawk down in Cornwall crew safe

No idea if anyone cares but the Hawk, call sign NAVYHAWK, was XX189 and came down at 09:36 yesterday according to my Flightradar24 app.

Would have put this on the Modern Military forum, but the Hawk would probably be retired before anyone saw the post…

It’s been standard practice for a while now to ground the type after an accident and not just in the UK. The Reds flew today but it was just a transit flight from Valley back to Scampton.

cheers PS, I am sure they will be back in the air very soon

The MoD have grounded all T1 Hawks, including the Red Arrows

The habit of grounding all examples of a type after an incident seems to become ever more prevalent, year on year,  witness the CAA and the Hunter in 2015.  
 

”The RAF and Royal Navy have paused flying of all Hawk T1 jets – including the Red Arrows – after a Navy jet crashed in Cornwall.

Two pilots ejected from the aircraft, which was from the 736 Naval Air Squadron based at RNAS Culdrose, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed.

Defence Minister Johnny Mercer said engine failure was suspected.

The MoD said the pause in operations was a “precautionary measure while investigations were ongoing”. ”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-56531788

Thanks for that gen PS. very interesting

The best possible result from a dangerous event.

It is amazing to monitor the (happy ) decline in MoD flying accidents, though it must be very substantially due to ever reducing  activity.

Look at 1980 , there were 34 major accidents, many with loss of life

In 2000,  there were   12 major accidents to in-service aircraft

In 2018  ( most recent data available ) the was a single accident across all three services in a whole year !

see the very valuable resource here  http://www.ukserials.com/

Within the RAF, there must be many ( perhaps most)  serving Fire  and Rescue personnel  who have in their whole careers  never attended a real ( not practice) incident..