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Old 16th February 2006 | 18:19
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GoForIt
 
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Picked this up on another forum, and I'll just paste it in here (posted 12 Feb):
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Was there just last night, and yup, it was World. It had been raining there for the last 3 days, and the story we got from our handler was that it was doing a 180 at the end of the runway and the nosewheel skidded on the painted surface and just slid off the end. Buried the nosewheel up over the tops of the tires and closed the runway for a couple of hours (the ONLY runway, as the other was being de-rubberized at the time and not available for use...). We took a 2 hour delay getting out of SNN going there, but we were on the clock, so it worked out nicely for us. No damage done to the airplane, but apparently a flight attendant was standing up when it went over the edge and took a tumble when the sudden stop occurred and ended up in the hospital.
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