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Old 12th August 2025 | 14:56
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blind pew
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British Airtours 707 heavy landed into Heraklion; Olympus airlines engineer refused to sign it off so captain instructed one of the first officers to contact london - the old BEA who were new to Boeing operations rather than BOAC tech who had more than a decade operating them.
Dubious procedure to see if the two engines hanging off the bent wings leaked fuel.
Load the passengers and fly back to london.
Two damaged pylons - one with a sheared bolt iirc.
IIRC aircraft beyond repair.
luckily one of the engines didn’t go over the wing as happened at Chicago on a DC10.
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