[quote](Reuters) - A Spanish Eurofighter jet crashed on Monday just before landing at an air base near Seville shared with the United States, killing the pilot, the Defence Ministry said.
The accident happened adjacent to the runway of the Moron de la Frontera air base at around 2 p.m, a ministry statement said, and it was not yet clear what caused the crash.
The 30-year-old pilot was from Madrid and had logged 600 hours of experience flying the combat jet.
Eurofighters are built by British defence company BAE Systems, European aerospace group Airbus and Italy's Finmeccanica. The accident was the third involving a Eurofighter in Spain in just under a decade, Spanish media reported.
A Saudi national died in a Eurofighter crash in 2010, also at the Moron base, just after taking off during a training flight with a Spanish co-pilot, who was injured.[/quote]
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If it was due to pilot error, the name of the base is probably appropriate.
god what morons
I wonder what caused it, Eurofighters have a pretty solid safety record as far as I know.
[QUOTE=Grenadiac;45045681]I wonder what caused it, Eurofighters have a pretty solid safety record as far as I know.[/QUOTE]
Of the three Eurofighters that have been lost in accidents.
All three have been Spanish.
I wonder what the common cause is?
[QUOTE=SeamanStains;45045943]Of the three Eurofighters that have been lost in accidents.
All three have been Spanish.
I wonder what the common cause is?[/QUOTE]
And two was at this Moron base.
I don't think it's the pilots, this guy at least had a ton of hours logged, maybe a problem with the landing strip?
Or just pure coincidental bad luck.
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