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Old 30th Oct 2001, 21:30
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Genghis the Engineer
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I think it's a methanol based compond. There was a CHIRP report published about a year ago where a chappie was nearly killed by a compass leaking onto his carpet on a hot day, the fumes caused himself to nearly pass out and his wife to suffer a serious asthma attack. He eventually landed - what apparently he thought was quite a good landing at the time but was actually about 50 yards off the side of the runway.

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