Mirage missing :(

[MartG]

Reports of a Mirage 2000 gone missing this morning in France - hope they got out but given the terrain I doubt it

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46808778?f...

[Djtemeka]

Apt name then...

[I Love Cake]

MartG said:

Reports of a Mirage 2000 gone missing this morning in France - hope they got out but given the terrain I doubt it

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46808778?f...

Very sad to read both crew members died in the crash, RIP.

[heisthegaffer]

Very sad, Rip to the crew.

Lovely planes these. I saw a pair perform at Riat last year and was very impressed. Very agile for an oldie or has agility simply plateaued now?

[MartG]

RIP to the crew

heisthegaffer said:

Very agile for an oldie or has agility simply plateaued now?

The limiting factor now is the G limits of the bit of pink protoplasm driving the thing

[aeropilot]

heisthegaffer said:

Very sad, Rip to the crew.
Very agile for an oldie

An oldie..........!

Seeing someone write that makes me feel old, as to me it only seems like yesterday that it was one of the new 'electric wonder jets' making its debut....

[heisthegaffer]

aeropilot said:

An oldie..........!

Seeing someone write that makes me feel old, as to me it only seems like yesterday that it was one of the new 'electric wonder jets' making its debut....

Ah, apologies... They came out in the 40s didn't they?

[Tony1963]

MartG said:

The limiting factor now is the G limits of the bit of pink protoplasm driving the thing

It has been for a very long time now, but... high G has quite a life-reducing effect on the airframe too.

[baldy1926]

Crew details now released is a facebook link for those who have access
https://www.facebook.com/groups/987153834767096/pe...

[MartG]

"On the morning of Wednesday, January 09, 2019, radio / radar contact was lost with a 2000 d mirage from the Base Aérienne 133 Nancy-Ochey Officiel.
Yesterday, Thursday, January 10, 2019, Florence Parly, minister of armies and air force general Philippe Lavigne, chief of staff of the air force, announced the death of the crew.

The Air Force and its airmen express their deepest condolences to the family and relatives of Captain Baptiste Chirié and Lieutenant Audrey Michelon, who died in ordered air service."

https://www.defense.gouv.fr/air/actus-air/inmemori...