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Tu.114
I had forgotten that one, but Spantax had a lot of accidents in that period . I was on duty when one of their CV990 did a belly landing in Cologne ( forgot to lower the gear ) they raised the fuselage on the runway and lowered the gear and the Capt wanted to bring the aircraft back to Palma with its ( mostly germans ) pax but the Germans BFS grounded it . After few days of negotiations they allowed it to be ferried to Zurich ( if I remember correctly ) for repairs .
Real cowboys but they welcomed controllers to fly for free with them , we did used them a lot and they got lots of directs in exchange .
A gone by era .
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