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Old 7th September 2001 | 21:22
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Yes, T&B. There was the AAC Gazelle in Germany. Landed at the top of a slightly sloping parade square in winter. weight on skids, no worries. Throttle chopped, Gaz whizzes down the slope and writes off a landrover (or vice versa). Pilot phones Flt Cdr who says "what a pratt, stay there". Flt Cdr jumps in Gaz and flys to the site. You can guess the rest - weight on skids, throttle chop, now two trashed Gazs and the landrover looking even sicker. This was in an incident signal while I was working in France (79ish). I translated it into French and caused much amusement amongst the FAF pilots.
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