Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/07/21
By: Liu Lee-jung and Hsu Hsiao-ling
Taipei, July 21 (CNA) One of Taiwan’s Indigenous Defense Fighter (IDF) jets
CNA file photo
slewed off the runway when its brakes failed during a landing at the Tainan air base on Saturday but no one was injured, according to a statement from the Air Force Command Headquarters.
The incident occurred at 9:38 a.m. when the jet fighter was returning from a routine mission, the Air Force said.
It said the aircraft’s brakes failed when it touched down and it skidded off the runway, suffering a blowout of a tire on the left side.
However, the pilot observed standard emergency procedures and neither he nor anyone else on board the IDF was injured and the plane was only slightly damaged, the Air Force said. [FULL STORY]
