A 400M meant for Turkish Airforce Crashed.

[Ankit Kumar 001]

An Airbus A400M military aircraft with serial number 23 crashed shortly after take off, on its first test flight from the airport in Seville. The aircraft was intended for Turkish Air Force. According to media 7 persons were on board the flight and some have been found dead while others are still missing. R.I.P.
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CASA423 - Private - Aircraft info and flight history - Flightradar24

 

[Ankit Kumar 001]

RIP to the dead.

@Abingdonboy @sancho

Sir, will this accident have any impact on its prospects in IAF as a replacement of IL 76?

Thanks

 

[The Great One]

RIP to the dead.

@Abingdonboy @sancho

Sir, will this accident have any impact on its prospects in IAF as a replacement of IL 76?

Thanks

Whoever said that this would replace Il-76?

 

[Ankit Kumar 001]

[QUOTE="The Great One, post: 7133709, member: 138274"whoever said that this would replace Il-76?[/QUOTE]

Hi
Sir, it's not me but I have seen this a topic of discussion on some other forums and also here.
I think you will be kind enough to forgive me if I am wrong.
Cheers
Thanks

@cabatli_53

Sir, any more info on this.

 

[Abingdonboy]

RIP to the dead.

@Abingdonboy @sancho

Sir, will this accident have any impact on its prospects in IAF as a replacement of IL 76?

Thanks

a) The cause of the crash is still yet to be determined
b) the IAF are only potentially interested in the A400 as a long term asset to supplement their now smaller than desired C-17 fleet.


I don't see this crash having any negative effect on the A400's export potential (India included) as long as the cause of the crash isn't an inherent and terminal design claw in the a/c which I seriously doubt.


Sadly the reality is that planes crash, aviation is an inherently dangerous game. I'm sure lessons will be learnt and applied for the future.

+RIP to all on board, it takes a lot of balls to be part of an experimental/development aircrew.

 

[New World]

what A 400M will do when you have C-17 and IL-76?

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

what A 400M will do when you have C-17 and IL-76?

In 2012, the IAF reportedly finalized plans to buy six more C-17's in the 13th five-year plan (2017–2022) apart from the 10 already ordered - But as Boeing brought forward C-17's production line closure - IAF could only order three more of them.

India's military establishment is pretty impressed and has evoked interest in such cargo carrier's varied utility that includes carrying out of large-scale humanitarian assistance operations such as the ongoing relief effort in earthquake-hit Nepal. After C-17's - A-400M are the only heavy lift carriers that come close to its capabilities.

 

[Archie]

what A 400M will do when you have C-17 and IL-76?

IL-76s are between 24-28 yr old, they will serve for atmost 10 more years

C17 are far too low in number, hence we will need atleast 10-15 aircrafts to suplement the fleet of C17

 

[sancho]

RIP to the dead.

@Abingdonboy @sancho

Sir, will this accident have any impact on its prospects in IAF as a replacement of IL 76?

Thanks

No, accidents happens and since it's the first lost aircraft, one can't say it's a major problem as yet. For IAF it will depend on the requirements if the A400 will be considered or not.

 

[Abingdonboy]

what A 400M will do when you have C-17 and IL-76?

The IAF has 20 or so IL-76s in service that will be retired by the end of this decade. To replace them they only have 10 C-17s in service and perhaps 3 more are coming but the C-17's production line closed at a very unfortunate time for the IAF as they need a fleet of at least 20 by the end of this decade and would likely want even more from 2025 onwards.

As such, 13 C-17s is simply not enough and thus they will have to look somewhere else to boost their strategic airlift fleet for the long term.

 

[New World]

but how IL-76 can be retired so early?? even US is using C-130 with upgrades which were made in 70's and 80's..