https://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/...ion-damage.html

F-22 taxiway collision causes $1 million damage

A US Air Force Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor has sustained more than $1 million in damage after colliding with another aircraft parked on a taxiway.

A spokesman at Tyndall AFB, Florida, where the incident last week occurred, confirmed the F-22A struck a Canada's Air Force Boeing CF-18.

Despite a $1 million repair bill, the collision was a relatively minor, low-speed event, the spokesman says. Details of the damage are being withheld pending the results of a safety investigation.

The USAF defines a Class A safety mishap as any incident resulting in death or disabling injury to people or more than $1 million worth of damage to the aircraft.

Meanwhile, the RCAF has also dispatched a safety investigation team to Tyndall, says a spokesman for the 1st Canadian Air Division.

The spokesman was unable to immediately provide details about the damage sustained by the parked CF-18.

Apparently it doesn't take much to hit $1 Million with this bird. How long ago was the classification system created and with the cost of production and repair would it be time for reclassification?

CF-18?

I wonder how many pallets that thing can hold.

CF-18?

I wonder how many pallets that thing can hold.

All Canadian military aircraft designations start with a 'C' (CC-130, CF-18, etc.), smart ass!

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Edited April 20, 200916 yr by TacAirCoug

Doesn't Canada have insurance? Shouldn't we file a claim? It has to be their fault, our Raptor pilots don't make mistakes!

Oh, and rookie mistake, Champ! Do a little research next time, OK?

Cheers! M2

It has to be their fault

♪♬Blame Canada! Blame Canada!♪♬

Edited April 20, 200916 yr by AEWingsMN

If they had to pay for it, it would bankrupt their whole country.

We could take payment in beer.

As long as it isn't that Molson crap.

You know Canadien beers' like moonshine...come on!

Coot

We could take payment in beer.

Or, Hocky game tickets.

I guess that high-tech radar doesn't do much for you on the ground.

Hydraulic failure? or sleeping pilot(s)/wing walker(s)?

Hydraulic failure? or sleeping pilot(s)/wing walker(s)?

That's it, time to start issuing pre labeled vials, syringes and piss bottles to all F-22 pilots. They can put them into their G-suits. They can take care of business before the flight doc even shows up.

Hydraulic failure? or sleeping pilot(s)/wing walker(s)?

Jet issue that the engineers say is "impossible".

Nice.