Serial	A10-445
Line Number
First Flight	18.12.1980
Model	A-10A Thunderbolt II
Status	Written-off
Comments	w/o 22.2.1991 crash-landed at King Khalid Military City (FOL) Saudi Arabia, after being hit by SAM over the Kuwait/Iraqi border. a/c made a wheels-down landing but landed at higher than normal rate of speed, with no hydraulics, went off runway into desert sand, collapsing the nose gear and then the main landing gear, placing the plane fully on its belly when it came to a complete stop. This was NOT a wheels-up belly landing as often reported elsewhere!. Wreckage salvaged for parts and then buried in the desert (with 76 TFS/23 TFW);
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