Homesick Mechanic nicks a Hercules.

[Trevatanus]

Ended rather badly.
Basically, at the bottom of the English channel.
Radio 2 were talking about this at lunchtime.
Homesick mechanic with ptsd requests leave, which is denied.
He gets drunk, nicks a Hercules from Mildenhall, 2 x QRA Lightnings dispatched, they return after failing to locate aircraft, this according to a person on the show who was apparently there. He said he heard a story, which he was never able to confirm that a Hunter was dispatched from Chivenor, which returned with a lot less ammunition than it took off with, and when It landed, MOD Police confiscated a camera from the aircraft, and spirited him away in the Police car.
He left the base shortly afterwards.
Apparently there is a search underway by a diving club for the wreck, Anyone able to share any more?

[Krikkit]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-43800089

[Eric Mc]

For a minute I thought this was news - rather than history.

[Riley Blue]

I was reading about this incident only recently and have these pages bookmarked:

http://www.sammcgowan.com/meyers.html

http://www.c-130hercules.net/forums/topic/3144-cre...

Edited by Riley Blue on Thursday 24th May 17:42

[surveyor]

May 6th is worth listening to -

http://airlinepilotguy.com/planetales/

as is the Plane Tales on this episode.

http://airlinepilotguy.com/apg-323-i-hope-theyre-n...

[ecsrobin]

Covered back in March: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...