Serial | 394A-3025 | |||||||||||||||
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Model | S-3B Viking | |||||||||||||||
Status | Written-off | |||||||||||||||
Comments | S-3A mod to S-3B; dbr 09.1.2002 when a/c suffered in-flight fire in environmental control system compartment, causing failure to main hydraulic system and loss of most flight-related electrical systems and suffered smoke in cockpit; a/c landed on USS Roosevelt on second attempt, while operating in the Arabian Sea off Oman, but nose and starboard main undercarriages collapsed on touchdown causing the starboard wing tank to catch fire on impact with carrier deck (with VS-32); officially soc 26.4.2002; | |||||||||||||||
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