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Old 29th Dec 2022, 00:19
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megan
 
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Separately, is it only in Oz that 210s have a record of peeling wings? I’ve not heard of it anywhere else
Noted NACA/NASA test pilot Scott Crossfield (X-1, X-15, dead sticked an F-100 - something company test pilots doubted could be done) lost his life when his 210A broke up. NTSB finding - "The pilot's failure to obtain updated en route weather information, which resulted in his continued instrument flight into a widespread area of severe convective activity, and the air traffic controller's failure to provide adverse weather avoidance assistance, as required by Federal Aviation Administration directives, both of which led to the airplane's encounter with a severe thunderstorm and subsequent loss of control."

Folk turn all sorts of airframes into scrap metal which then rains down from the atmosphere, nothing unique to the 210.
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