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Old 21st Apr 2021, 14:22
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meleagertoo
 
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You can see in Airbubba's first pic how the flaps are folded under the wing by it being dragged out of the oggin and up the beach. It will have suffered quite a bit more damage in that process before it got close enough to a crane on a hard surface to be able to lift it (and that rather brutally by the looks of it). The steel hawser has chewed up the engine firewall pretty badly.
No lifejacket. No helmet. Canopy closed.
Hmmm.
I'll await the NTSB's views on very nearly landing on top of swimmers instead of a safe distance offshore with interest.
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