Amazing pictures of RAF Hercules landing on an Afghan landmine

[Blackleaf]

Amazing pictures of an RAF Hercules plane that hit a landmine in Afghanistan. Amazingly, all 31 people onboard the plane managed to escape.....



VIP plane hits landmine

RAF Hercules puts down on runway in the Afghan desert, top left, bursts into flames as it strikes the landmine, top right, and the damaged aircraft is blown up to prevent scavenging by Taliban rebels

By TOM NEWTON DUNN
December 18, 2006

THIRTY Brits and a VIP escaped when their RAF Hercules struck a landmine.

The device was planted on a runway in an Afghan desert airfield in Helmand.

The MoD originally blamed the disaster on a burst tyre, but The Sun can today reveal the real reason. The plane was later blown up to prevent parts being scavenged by Taliban fighters.

British envoy Stephen Evans, 56, escaped unhurt but two bodyguards were seriously wounded. Passengers dashed off the plane down its lowered tail gate.

The aircraft did not carry foam — now standard for C130s in war zones.


thesun.co.uk

 

[#juan]

Presumably they waited till the passengers were off before they blew up the aircraft.. :?:wave:

 

[northstar]

And here is a perfect example of why humanitarian aid to the middle-east has to stop. The Brits have been one of the greatest humanitarian efforts in the Middle-EAST compassionately pouring in millions in food, shelter and peacekeepers. They have freed the people that were ruled by oppressive mainstream Islamists that routinely took all the the proceed of oil and opium and used it to feed their Chinese Bank Account and buying Weapons, and providing education and training to turn babies into terrorists.

With all the pleas for humanitarian aid, claiming poverty, the money from the UK has been used to help the day-to-day expenses so that more money is channeled to families for the children they offer up for human bombs, and for those who capture or help them hurt any Non-Muslims.

So here is a perfect example of how the UK AIRCRAFT is not up to snuff in order to protect the good troops that are fulfilling their mission. The unfortunate troops are being hurt because the humanitarian aid is going to the wrong place. The safekeeping of our countries need to be the priority.

The mine was probably planted under the eyes of the villigers who pretend to appreciate the help...they don't give a camels craaaap. Wanna bet some villager gets some cash from the opium crop as a reward.