Originally Posted by
aerolearner
Repair?!? Lift the plane, lower the gear and off they go!
the way Russian aircraft are built that would not surprise me .
in t 1978 a CV990 from Spantax landed like this in Cologne. They put inflatable mattress under it , lowered the gear , did some repairs on the engines ( a couple had caught fire in the process ) but the aircraft soon flew back to Palma and continued to fly a few more years until the airline went bankrupt.