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Old 12th Jun 2018, 00:23
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flopzone
 
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I lived for 20 years under the flightpath of the sthn approach for 35L.
I would sit in the backyard with the scanner and watch. I seen some dubious airmanship but nothing alarming, given it is a training airport.
The only time I was worried was about 9pm one dark and stormy winter night when a twin doing a bank cheque run came in during dreadful weather.
His strobes lit up the house like a disco I ran outside to see him miss the TV antenna of the opposite house by a few feet. The occupants of that house fled in fear of their lives into the street.
In the 20 years I think 11 aircraft failed to return to the field. This latest one, one into a swimming pool, one into a factory, one into a dam, one on the golf course, one into a house, one into a lane and a chopper into a factory and three forced landings in fields.
5 of these have hit buildings of some sort within 500 metres or so of the runway.
These are the locations that I can recall

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