Thursday, February 11, 2010

Incidents limits flights with Gripen

According to Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter the use of Gripen in the Swedish Air Force will be limited due to two minor incidents lately. One involving the ejection handle and the other one involving the G-suite. the incidents are being investigated and normal operations will hopefully be resumed by the end of the week.

The Gripen crash outside Vidsel in Norrbotten 2007 was caused  by an error to the ejection handle.

(Source in Swedish)
(Google translation)