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Originally Posted by Triggaaar

Good video to watch the landing. Pilot's fly bys and 2 attempts to land looked very good, but the comments along with the story were a bit weird.

If they were worried about the 3000 litres of fuel exploding, why not fly about until it ran low? Perhaps because they weren't worried. And given that landing it on its belly meant it would never fly again, why bother landing it at all if it put the pilots in danger - they could have just ejected. Again, presumably because it wasn't that dangerous (or they don't value the life of their pilots).

Most likely because they had a written plan/policy for what to do in a similar event, and as you know military people follow policy to the letter (you dont get rewarded for inginuity normally) so they just followed their policy.

Still why didnt they dump the fuel? Its flamable and it weights the aircraft down...