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5th Dec 2019, 06:24

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jonkster

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Had an airspeed failure recently not long after takeoff. I tried pitot heat but no change. Afterwards the engineer removed the head of the pitot and we found a (quite small) (and quite singed) bug that had gone straight into the pitot tube.

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