Fighter F-4E Phantom II Greek Air Force crashed over the Ionian Sea

Greece lost a combat aircraft, according to public television ERT, an F-4E Phantom II fighter from the Republic's Air Force crashed into the Ionian Sea, the pilots managed to eject.

According to published data, the Greek Air Force F-4E Phantom II fighter crashed over the Ionian Sea near Andravida Island. The pilots managed to leave the plane, the automatic ejection system worked. A search and rescue operation is currently underway. The cause of the plane crash has not yet been established, the fighter was performing a training flight. Whether there was weapons on the plane is not known.

The fighter fell into the sea south of Andravida Island. The automatic ejection system worked. The pilots are alive

- said in a statement.

The Greek Air Force is armed with about 50 obsolete F-4E Phantom II aircraft in two modifications, of which 34 are multirole fighters. The Greeks have been wanting to write them off for a long time, but it still doesn’t work out. In 2021, the Greek Ministry of Defense announced plans to purchase 30 Eurofighter Typhoon Tranche 1 fighters from the British Air Force, which are being prepared for decommissioning by 2025. It was they who were supposed to help get rid of the already obsolete F-4E Phantom II, and the French Mirage 2000 fighters.

The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is a two-seat, long-range, third-generation fighter-interceptor bomber. The aircraft has been produced since 1958, more than five thousand aircraft were produced in total - this is the most massive fighter aircraft produced in the USA. F-4 Phantom II was actively used in various conflicts of the twentieth century, in particular in Vietnam, in numerous conflicts in the Middle East.

Comments

[opposite28]

The fighter fell into the sea south of Andravida Island. The automatic ejection system worked. The pilots are alive

- said in a statement.

Probably the last thing that worked properly in the American aviation anachronism of the XNUMXth century was the automatic ejection system.

[Machito]

Minus one frag.
Again there is no reason not to drink.
It is a pity that the pilots managed to eject. It would be better if they flew to Bandera.

[topol717]

Quote: oppozite28

So this is an automatic ejection system.

Well, now the F-35s don’t fly, because the catapult doesn’t work. :)

[IL-18]

4E is not such an anachronism. Powerful, load-lifting, fast enough. To solve a considerable number of tasks is still quite a platform. So it is very good that NATO has one less.

[unhappy]

Think what you say. You yourself are not surprised by the description that British decommissioned aircraft will replace decommissioned aircraft from America. If the British are already obsolete, then the conclusion follows that the American ones are an anachronism.

[Bolt cutter]

fighter F-4E Phantom II

Such a museum exhibit was ruined ...

[antivirus]

Blame the lochnesse monster.
The tail hurt. It swam away from Scotland. Tourists all follow him - to Greece.
And the Turks sent condolences in vain 15 minutes before the fall, the pilots are alive.

[YOUR]

The fighter fell into the sea south of Andravida Island. The automatic ejection system worked. The pilots are alive

What kind of system is this. Automatically once and threw out the pilots.

[Prisoner]

Probably because it fell, because the crew automatically threw it away.

[voyaka uh]

The problem of the Phantom, which was conceived as a fighter,
was a phenomenal bomb-lift.
All user countries began to use it as a bomber.
And in Vietnam they paid for it with the downed ones. Loaded with bombs, the F-4 could not dodge the light MiGs.
And the Americans used their light fighter, the F-5, little.
In Israel, Phantom also worked as a bomber donkey.

[HAM]

The Greeks decided to save money again, they are buying decommissioned equipment ... it will also fly .... mean people pay three times ... there is money to help Ukraine, but not for themselves .... you go ...

[Nross]

In the meantime, it's pretty serious. On the other hand.
How would these Phantoms, like a white arrow, over the so-called. Ukraine did not start flying.
The F-16 will definitely not be given to them, but the old and quite flying one, with a resource for 100-200 flight hours, they may well fit it.
The SGA has thousands of such machines in storage, in the main. 4-5kat, but there are live specimens around the world, and more than one Air Force army can be assembled.

Although many accountants cite numbers of Nazi losses in several. combined arms armies, equivalent to 2-3 front-line formations (according to the number of equipment from the times of the Second World War), it is still naive to believe that the chosen course for the depletion of the resources of the Wild West will be crowned by their spending all their weapons and military equipment. They rivet.

[Mavrikiy]

Analogue Su-7 "Fly pigeons, fly ... since 1960

[Fitter65]

Greece lost a combat aircraft, according to public television ERT, an F-4E Phantom II fighter from the Republic's Air Force crashed into the Ionian Sea, the pilots managed to eject.

Though not a rarity, the Wright Brothers have lost.

[Sergey3]

And mind you, such a rusty rarity is in the hangar, and we have Su-57s in the open, waiting for the drone to fall on them.

[Rusfaner]

The main, but not the only, cause of all flight accidents is terrestrial gravity! No one has flown past the ground yet.
The main thing is that ours land, and not fall!