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A couple of days ago ZA671 made an emergency landing at Old Warden. Ironically it's the same machine that put down in a Dorset field last summer.
Here it is awaiting rectification as the erks guarding it bask in the sunshine.

2025-02-28 ZA671 CHINOOK RAF OLD WARDEN 8746 by KING COBRA 92, on Flickr

Thanks for sharing this with us, nice shot. Not the first current type to end up at Old Warden, a few years ago, a Harrier ended up at OW and having gone tech, was pushed into a hangar for a couple of days.

Mustang531 wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 28, 2025 7:19 pm

Thanks for sharing this with us, nice shot. Not the first current type to end up at Old Warden, a few years ago, a Harrier ended up at OW and having gone tech, was pushed into a hangar for a couple of days.

Remember Harriers at OW air shows back in the day but missed the one you've mentioned.

Thanks Ian for the use of your ladder, which gave a little more hight so we can see some of the underside of the fussalarge .

Great shot and nice story boys

Mustang531 wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 28, 2025 7:19 pm

Thanks for sharing this with us, nice shot. Not the first current type to end up at Old Warden, a few years ago, a Harrier ended up at OW and having gone tech, was pushed into a hangar for a couple of days.

Was it Christine?

From what I've heard 671 has always been a bad luck airfame, besides the roundabout incident, it also had a very heavy landing at Yuma back in 2012, rumour is that it is not a Chinook, but a cheap imitation of one. Notice the two roundels, thats so it knows which way is forward.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... april-2012
Reading the report and looking at the pictures it is surprising it was rebuilt. No wonder it is a touch unreliable.