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Florennes: improbable collision between a lorry and … a fighter plane

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Around 8 am on Tuesday morning, a truck driver could not avoid the plane that sits in the middle of the roundabout at Barrière-Luc, near the military air base of Florennes. The damage is impressive, but the driver came out without a scratch.

A well-known roundabout in the area, it is commonly called the “roundabout of the plane”. Close to the Florennes airfield, a military aircraft adorns the ‘Barrière-Luc’ roundabout, to the north of the village (at the crossroads of N97 and N40).

The police of the Hermeton-et-Heure zone said that a tow truck was expected to put the aircraft on the ground. Indeed, its stability on its base is precarious.

The site of the collision (picture L’Avenir)

This post was published on 24 January 2017 15:43

André Orban

M. Sc. Engineering

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