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Old 4th October 2005 | 09:54
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WHBM
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Looks like Putin's Il-96 has well and truly bitten the dust, for now anyway, a summit is surely the time for a "mine's bigger than yours" display on the Heathrow VIP parking area.

For those who don't know, it had a brake failure on landing at Helsinki last month, actually with El Pres on board. Fortunately they didn't overrun, though that presumably would have caused some reverse thrust ! Pres went home on the backup Il-62 and following some doubtless typically Russian "full and frank exchanges of opinion" the entire Il-96 production has been grounded since.

BTW speaking of a "mine's bigger than yours" contest, apparently the following took place at Washington DC in the 1990s, in front of a RAF VC-10 and an Air Force One 747.

John Major : "Wow, Mr President, I admire your plane"
Bill Clinton : "Thank you, Prime Minister".
Another British Minister : "Prime Minister, I must introduce you to Richard Branson. He's got eight of them !"
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