Originally Posted by
AGBagb
Interesting. I hadn't really thought of the "what if they had just plunked it hard down first time round" question. One to think about; though far beyond my paygrade, such as it is.
A former colleague who was along for the ride when Pan Am did a 737 gear up touch and go in Berlin is convinced in that case that they would have ended up in a fireball at the train station off the end of the runway. Pan Am limped it around the pattern and got it stopped. It was towed into the hangar and fixed without much official documentation according to crew bus oral tradition.
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TXL to be closed "temporarily" on June 15th – is that good-bye EDDT?