TORNADO

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Tornado
Losses & Ejections

Date	Air Force	A'cft	Unit / Serial	based	crashed	crew	photo	seat
27th April 1981	Italian AF	Tornado				ejected safely		Martin-Baker
13th June 1981	Italian AF	Tornado				ejected safely		Martin-Baker
First Loss of RAF Tornado
27th September 1983	RAF	Tornado GR1	ZA586/A	9 Sqn	Night Flight. Crashed into field near Wolfeston Village, six miles North of Kings Lynn			Martin-Baker
						Sqn. Ldr. Michael Stephens, ordered the navigator to eject but failed to do so himself and was killed in the crash	Navigator Flt. Lt. N. Nickles ejected	Martin-Baker
28th October 1983	RAF	tornado GR1	ZA558/F	617 Sqn		Sqn. Ldr. G. Thurston ejected		Martin-Baker
6-2-1984	RAF	Tornado GR1	ZA451	15 Sqn	Struck by lightning. Caught fire and crashed near Jever, West Germany			Martin-Baker Mk.10
						Pilot ejected	Navigator ejected	Martin-Baker Mk.10
FEEDBACK	With regard to Tornado ZD451 (lightning strike) I remember reading the official accident report on this particular crash and I believe the crew were severely reprimanded for ejecting from a serviceable aircraft. Apparently they could have saved the aircraft by jettisoning the drop tank which was all that was on fire. Hope this is of interest to you. Gary
12-7-1984	RAF	Tornado GR1	ZA408	TWCU	collided with Jaguar GR1 XZ393/GK of 54 Sqn. crashed near Hempstead, Norfolk The Jaguar crashed into the North Sea Cromer, Norfolk			Martin-Baker Mk.10
						Pilot ejected	Navigator ejected	Martin-Baker Mk.10
18-7-1984	RAF	Tornado GR1	ZA494/15	27 Sqn	On approach to Goose Bay, Canada after loss of control due to flap failure. It hit the runway and bounced and crashed inverted in woods.			Martin-Baker Mk.10
						Did Pilot eject ??	Did Navigator eject ?	Martin-Baker Mk.10
FEEDBACK	I have a little bit of info on the loss of ZA494 on the approach to Goose Bay on the 17/07/84. The main cause of the accident was that there was a crack on the telescopic shaft to the flap control unit. This caused only the slats to extend. As the flaps had not extended, full roll authority remained. At some point on short finals the pilot applied roll. Pehapse due to the wind. This cause a pilot induced osscilation in roll and this combined with the lack of flight testing of the Tornado with empty underwing fuel tanks and with stores on the outboard pylons made the pilot initiate a go around and he applied full reheat but at the same time realised that they would hit the ground and initiated command ejection. They both survived and lived to fly another day. Hope this info is useful James
8-11-1984	RAF	Tornado GR1	ZA603/08	27 Sqn	crashed near Shwenfurt, West Germany
								Martin-Baker Mk.10
						Pilot ejected	Navigator ejected	Martin-Baker Mk.10
	The aircraft began to buffet and tumble out of control after the pilot had taken violent evasive action to avoid a USAF A10A. He was unable to reach the ejection handle so the navugator initiated command ejection. [bmal/224] & [bmalog/105]

FEEDBACK	I don't think the information on ZA603 is altogether accurate - my memory from the accident report was that the navigator had been reading an article on the effect of high power HF transmissions on 'fly by wire' aircraft (the HF radios on Tornados were at one time inhibited because transmitting caused the right hand engine to go into reheat) just prior to the sortie and noted that the routing took them quite close to some radio masts. He was actually looking down at his knee pad map when the pilot made an aggressive manoeuvre to avoid the A10 and thought the aircraft had gone out of control. He immediately ejected and as the command ejection system was set to 'both' he ejected the pilot as well. The command ejection system was always set to 'both' after Squadron Leader Mike Stephens lost his life in the first Tornado crash in Sept 1983. The aircraft lost all power and it was agreed between the crew that the navigator would eject first followed by the pilot. It was thought that the fumes from the ejection seat rocket pack may have incapacitated the pilot and he was unable to eject. Sadly, his wife was working in RAF Honington air traffic control at the time. I spent a couple of cold nights as a crash guard at the site (which was actually in a ploughed field on the edge of WOLFERTON village, a few hundred yards from the Queen's estate railway station and not Wolfeston Marsh). Hope this is of interest to you. Regards Gary Waters in email 4th May 2008
2nd December 1986	RAF	Tornado GR1	ZA555	TWCU	Crashed into a field at Rookery Farm, Wortham, near Diss, Norfolk			Martin-Baker
						Flt. Lt. J. Magowan	Sqn. Ldr. E. J. Wyer	Martin-Baker
10th December 1986	RAF	Tornado GR1	ZA605/G	617 Sqn	Collided with Tornado GR1 ZA611/A 617 Sqn while joining up after take off from Marham on a night sortie. Crashed onto a disused railway line one and a half miles north of Thorney, Cambs. ZA611 made an emergency landing at Marham			Martin-Baker
						Flt. Lt. R. P. Lewis	Flt. Lt. A. M. Randall	Martin-Baker
30th March 1987	RAF	Tornado GR1	ZD894/BE	14 Sqn	Crashed near Hunxe, West Germany			Martin-Baker
						Flt. Lt. J. A. Hill	Flt. Lt. J. P. Moloney	Martin-Baker
15th April 1987	RAF	Tornado GR1	ZA366	TWCU	Fire damaged controls. Crashed onto the old airfield at Manby, Lincs
						ejected	ejected
3rd June 1987	RAF	Tornado
						W.C A. V. B. Hawken	W.C N. R. Irving
17th June 1987	RAF	Tornado GR1	ZA493/GH	41 Sqn	collided with RAF Jaguar GR1 XZ116/D of 20 Sqnhead on in the Borrowdale Valley, Cumbria both crashing at Wall Crag. The Jaguar pilot was killed
						Flt. Lt. N. J.Campion	Flt. Lt. J. S. Head.
27th July 1987	RAF	Tornado GR.1	ZD738/DD	31 Sqn	Crashed onto the North Yorkshire Moors near Sadmoor
						Sqn. Ldr. Walker	Flt. Lt. Lloyd
20th March 1988	RAF	Tornado GR.1		20 Squadron	crashed in the desert during Exercise Green Flag in Nevada, USA			Martin-Baker
						Pilot ejected.	Navigator ejected	Martin-Baker
30th March 1988	RAF	Tornado GR.1	ZA448/EB	15 Squadron	Crashed on the Nellis AFB ranges during a "Green Flag" exercise. Control lost after taking avoiding action due to a SAM contact.			Martin-Baker
						Flg. Off. T. D. Robinson (20 Sqn) ejected safely	Flt. Lt. S. P. Townsend (20 Sqn) ejected safely	Martin-Baker
13-1-1989	RAF	Tornado GR.1	ZD891 BB	14 Squadron Bruggen, West Germany
	flew into a formation of 8 West German Air Force Alpha Jets on approach to Wittmund colliding with two of the trainers. The Tornado and one of the Alpha jets crashed near Weismoor. Two crew of Tornado killed. Pilot of Alpha Jet 40+87 of JBG 43 ejected. [afm f/7/89] & full report [afm/j/15/90] & [bmal/237] WAS THERE ANY EJECTION ATTEMPT BY THE TORNADO CREW ???
20th June 1989	Italian AF	Tornado IDS	MM7077/6-65	6 Stormo	crashed near its base after a suspected bird strike whilst flying at 800ft and 225 kts			Martin-Baker Mk.10
						TEN G. Di Zenzo	S.TEN M. Piccoli	Martin-Baker Mk.10
26-6-1989	Italian Air Force	Tornado		6 Stormo Ghedi AFB	crashed near its base			Martin-Baker Mk.10
						Pilot ejected	Navigator ejected	Martin-Baker Mk.10
28th August 1989	Royal Saudi Air Force	Tornado IDS	706	7 Squadron at Dahran	crashed on approach	pilot ejected		Martin-Baker Mk.10A
						navigator ejected		Martin-Baker Mk.10A
9th January 1990	RAF	Tornado						Martin-Baker
						Flt. Lt. I. J. McLean ejected	Flt. Lt. N. Johnston ejected	Martin-Baker
17th January 1991	RAF	Tornado GR.1	ZD791/BG	14 Sqn	SAM 16 over Ar Rumaylah Air Base, Iraq	Flt. Lt. John Peters ejected - POW [Personal testimony]	Flt. Lt. John Nichol ejected - POW	Martin-Baker
16th or 18th January 1991	Italy	Tornado			Enemy action	Major Gianmarco Bellini	F.Capt. M. Cocciolone	Martin-Baker
								Martin-Baker
19th / 20th January 1991	RAF	Tornado GR.1	ZA396/GE	20 Sqn	Hit by SAM 7 during low level ground attack mission on Tallil Air Base, Iraq.	Flt. Lt. R. Stewart ejected POW. Later released.	Flt. Lt. D. Waddington ejected POW. Later released.	Martin-Baker
is this 19th January 1991 ???	Royal Saudi Air Force	Tornado		DETAILS APPRECIATED	ran out of fuel following a missed approach in weather.		DETAILS APPRECIATED
							DETAILS APPRECIATED
20th January 1991	Royal Saudi Air Force	Tornado IDS	765		Shot down by Iraqi AAA, Iraq/Kuwait	pilot ejected and rescued	DETAILS APPRECIATED	Martin-Baker Mk.10A
						navigator ejected and rescued	DETAILS APPRECIATED	Martin-Baker Mk.10A
20th January 1991	RAF	Tornado GR1	ZD893/AG	9 Sqn	Suffered a technical failure on take off from Tabuk, Saudi Arabia for a ground attack mission			Martin-Baker
						Sqn. Ldr. P. Batson ejected	W.C M. Heath ejected	Martin-Baker
24th January 1991	RAF	Tornado GR.1	ZA403/CO	17 Sqn. Ar Rumaylah Air Base, Iraq	1000 lb bomb exploded prematurely	Sqn. Ldr. R. Ankerson ejected - POW	Flg. Off. S. Burgess ejected - POW [Pilot Flt. Lt. Simon Burgess was killed when parachute failed to deploy when ejecting from Hawk T.1 XX164 on 13-2-1996]	Martin-Baker
14th February 1991	RAF	Tornado GR.1	ZD717/CD	17 Sqn. Al Taqaddum Air Base, Iraq	Hit by two SA-2 SAMs during laser guided bombing mission			Martin-Baker
						Navigator Flt. Lt. Stephen M. Hicks ejected but was killed	Flt. Lt. R. Clark ejected	Martin-Baker
10th May 1991	RAF	Tornado GR.1	ZA376	on loan to 20 Sqn but flown by 15 Sqn crew	Crashed near Lubberstedt, Germany. Crew ejected by navigator			Martin-Baker Martin-Baker
						Sqn. Ldr. Pablo Mason	Flt. Lt. Rob Woods
8th August 1991	German AF	Tornado	44+77	jbG.33	Crashed between Lanstein and Badaems during a sortie from Buchel			Martin-Baker
						Capt. Albrecht ejected safely	1.Lt. J. Asanger ejected safely	Martin-Baker
23rd August 1991	RAF	Tornado						Martin-Baker
						Flg. Off. G. Harley	Flg. Off. M. Entwhistle	Martin-Baker
12th September 1991	RAF	Tornado GR.1	ZA540/JQ	27 Sqn Marham	crashed into the Bristol Channel south of Steep Holm Island			Martin-Baker
						Flt. Lt. A. Edwards	W.C J. Ball	Martin-Baker
10th October 1991	German Navy	Tornado	43+84	MfG.1	collided in mid-air during 'buddy buddy" refueling and crashed into the sea near the Skaggerak between Denmark and Norway	Lt. Cdr. D.Henschel O.Lt. M. Gohler Lt. Cdr. K. Seemann		Martin-Baker
								Martin-Baker
10th October 1991	German Navy	Tornado	46+17	MfG.1				Martin-Baker
								Martin-Baker
6th February 1992	German Navy	Tornado	46+16	MfG.1	crashed into a field at Cloppenburg, near Oldenburg, northern Germany		Lt. B. Bardischewski ejected suffering minor injuries	Martin-Baker
							Lt. A. Hug ejected suffering minor injuries	Martin-Baker
19th January 1993	German AF	Tornado	44+99	JBG34	crashed in in open field near Ansbach, Bavaria		#
						Capt. Rudolph ejected	Capt. Brosch ejected
21st October 1993	RAF	Tornado F3	ZE858/GO	43 Sqn	crashed onto moorland adjacent to the A66 road at Stainmore near Barnard Castle at the border between Cumbria and County Durham
						Flt. Lt. L. Taylor	Flt. Lt. S. Walker
7th June 1994	RAF	Tornado F3	ZE809/HP	111 Sqn on loan to 11 Squadron	crashed into the North Sea sixty miles east of Newcastle, Tyne and Wear		Flt. Lt. S. Smiley ejected	Martin-Baker
							Flt. Lt. C. Chew ejected	Martin-Baker
8th July 1994	RAF	Tornado F3	ZH558		Into Sea off Cyprus near Akrotiri
						Flight Lieutenant Nigel ORME killed	light Lieutenant StuariJohn MacDonald WALKER killed
18th July 1994	Royal Saudi Air Force	Tornado	774	7sq			DETAILS APPRECIATED
19th July 1994	RAF	Tornado GR1	ZA368	on loan to 15(R) Sqn		GAF		Martin-Baker
						Hptm. A. Stumpf	Flt. S. T. Petherick	Martin-Baker
25th July 1994	Royal Saudi Air Force	Tornado	763				DETAILS APPRECIATED
1st August 1994	RAF	Tornado GR1A	ZA397/O	2 Sqn	collided with the underside of Tornado GR1 ZD844/DE of 31 Sqn at Radisson, 500 miles north of Quebec, en route to Goose Bay, Newfoundlan	Hpt. A. Stumpf	Sqn. Ldr. D. H. Macleod	Martin-Baker
							Flg. Off. I. Knott	Martin-Baker
1st September 1994	RAF	Tornado GR1A	ZG708	13 Sqn	Aircraft low level sortie - normal till something made the pilot enter a steep bank from which they crashed at the summit of the pass ground in Glen Ogle Scotland			Martin-Baker
						Flight Lieutenant Peter John Michael MOSLEY killed	Flight Lieutenant Patrick Peter HARRISON killed	Martin-Baker
19th September 1994	RAF	Tornado GR1A	ZG725/J	13 Sqn	into the Mediterranean Sea off Sardinia			Martin-Baker
						Flt. Lt. Ring	Flg. Off. E. P. Moriarty	Martin-Baker
10th March 1995	RAF	Tornado F3	ZE789/AU	56 (R) Sqn	Crashed into the North Sea eleven miles off Spurn Point, Humberside			Martin-Baker
						Flt. Lt. D. J. Hazell ejected	Navigator ejected but declared dead on arrival at hospital	Martin-Baker
25th August 1995	German AF	Tornado		JBG.34	collided in mid-air close to their base at Memmiingen, Bavaria			Martin-Baker
						Pilot ejected	Navigator ejected	Martin-Baker
25th August 1995	German AF	Tornado		JBG.34	collided in mid-air close to their base at Memmiingen, Bavaria			Martin-Baker
						Pilot ejected	Navigator ejected	Martin-Baker
31st August 1995	Italian AF	Tornado MM7076	36-30	36o Stormo/156o Gruppo - Gioia del Colle	crashed into the Gulf of Taranto			Martin-Baker
						Pilot ejected	Navigator ejected	Martin-Baker
5th September 1995	Royal Saudi Air Force	Tornado ADV	704	7sq	damaged		DETAILS APPRECIATED
14th September 1995	RAF	Tornado GR1A	ZG714/Q	13 Sqn Aircraft both crew 12th Sqn	Nose wheel collapse following Aquaplaning on landing at Goose Bay, Canada			Martin-Baker
						Pilot Capt (RNLAF exchange) Jon Semmeling ejected	Navigator Flt Lt Mike Looseley ejected	Martin-Baker
30th October 1995	RAF	Tornado F3	ZE733	43 Sqn Leuchers	collided with Tornado F3 ZE210/GD at night over the North Sea sixty miles north east of Berwick, Northumberland. ZE210/GD landed safely			Martin-Baker
						Flt. Lt. McCarry ejected and rescued by a Sea King from Boulmer	Flt. Lt. Booth ejected and rescued by a Sea King from Boulmer