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Old 3rd Aug 2019, 07:05
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Originally Posted by WHBM
Ansett's initial 767s were specially fitted out for 3-crew, a union issue. They later stopped this, and bought secondhand models that came without, but there must have still been some non-standard difference; when they went bankrupt in the days following 9/11 when airline financing vanished, nobody wanted them and they were the first 767s to go for scrap. Their secondhand standard ones however found new buyers.


This account surprises me, I distinctly remember reading an article about Ansett
converting all their three cockpit crew 767
aircraft to the standard two pilot configuration
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