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Two RAF airmen were killed yesterday after a military jet crashed into a hillside at a remote beauty spot. The Tornado F3, from RAF Leuchars in Fife, came down in Glen Kinglas, Argyll, during a ...
Laura Wright, prosecuting, said the Tornado had been heading towards Leuchars at around 2140 BST on 16 August, 2010. The pilot and his navigator spotted the laser being shone from the ground at ...
Tornado crews from RAF Leuchars in Fife have begun to arrive home from the war in Iraq. The families of the pilots gathered at the base to give them a hero's welcome. The four Tornado F-3s of 111 ...
The Tornado F3 from 43 Squadron was on a routine training flight from RAF Leuchars when it ploughed at high speed into a hill at Glen Kinglas in Argyll yesterday morning.
TWO airmen died when they couldn't turn their Tornado jet in a Scottish glen and slammed into a hillside. The crash happened last summer while the pilot and navigator, from RAF Leuchars in Fife ...
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: "It is with deep regret that the MoD must confirm the deaths of two RAF air crew from 43 Squadron, RAF Leuchars, in a Tornado F3 crash today.
An MoD spokesman said: "It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence must confirm the deaths of two RAF air crew from 43 Squadron, RAF Leuchars, in a Tornado F3 crash today." He added ...
The aircraft, from 11 Squadron RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire, replace the Tornado F3 fighters from RAF Leuchars in Fife, Scotland, which have completed 17 years service protecting UK interests on ...
Flight Lieutenants Kenneth Thompson, 27, and Nigel Morton, 43, of 43 Squadron, RAF Leuchars in Fife, were on a training mission with another Tornado when their F3 fighter went down at Glen Kinglas ...
The RAF has been mourning the loss of two air crew after their Tornado fighter jet crashed ... of two air crew from 43 Squadron based at RAF Leuchars near St Andrews. He said: "At the moment ...
The Red Arrows take to the skies above Fife as one of the highlights at the annual RAF Leuchars airshow. ... alongside the Typhoon and Tornado GR4 aircraft at the heart of current RAF operations.