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8th Nov 2004, 04:56

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411A, we lost a Convair 880M into Hong Kong Harbour on Nov. 5, 1967 due to a nosewheel tyre thread seperation during the take-off roll. This had nothing to do with lack of maintenance but we immediately stopped using re-threads for the nose wheels.

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