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Old 24th July 2004 | 17:38
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CyclicRick
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From: Just over there....no there.
I saw some lovely photos today of a Cessna Citation jet that flew through a thunderstorm near Amsterdam.
The radome was completely destroyed and the wings loked as though someone had taken a cricket bat to them, the rest of the aircraft looked like a golfball.
He was asked if he'd listened to ATIS, he said "yep", then they asked again and he said "yep"
After the emergency landing they took his license off him, damn right!
Apparently he had no weather radar just a stormscope, and couldn't see the CB's properly.
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