OSHKOSH: F-16 damaged after runway overrun

 

28/07/11 SOURCE:Flightglobal.com

A Lockheed Martin F-16 was damaged after overrunning the runway on 28 July at the AirVenture fly-in in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Details of the incident were not immediately available.

The F-16C belonging to the 100th Fighter Sqd of the Alabama Air National Guard rolled off the north end of Runway 36 at Wittman Regional Airport. The nose gear appeared to collapse after the F-16C continued onto the grass. The impact also cracked the single-engine fighter’s nose cone.

The aircraft came to a stop not far from where dozens of general aviation aircraft owned by visitors to the international fly-in were parked.

The F-16C, a Block 30 delivered in 1987, was among active military aircraft joining the static display, including the US Navy’s Boeing F/A-18F and T-38.

AirVenture handles hundreds of aircraft entering the landing pattern around the general aviation airport every day of the week-long event. But the F-16C mishap was the first serious safety incident reported during the show.

Earlier in the week, a Piper Cub en route to Oshkosh crashed in Lake Winnebago still several miles from its destination, killing two people. That incident is being investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board.