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Old 2nd Sep 2023, 20:33
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BL-039 is an old airframe and the incident appears most likely due to mechanical fault. I said "reminiscent" not "related" to the Moresby Gliding Club incident and if memory serves me right, an earlier King Air C90 incident I think at Jackson's when someone from the Government forgot to dangle the Dunlops.

The late WG often mentioned he was an Ace, but I didn't mind him. Far better than some that held that job over the years.

(The link gives a fact I didn't know - WG was born on Samarai, Papua New Guinea, April 1922.)
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