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Old 20th Apr 2006, 19:04
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Swedish Steve
 
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I was working for GF in BAH in 1976 and we had a very mixed fleet including 3 Skyvans that flew oil charters in Oman. One was flying over the desert when a prop autofeathered due to an oil px sw failing. The single pilot was dreaming at the time and felt the swing as the prop feathered and shut down the wrong engine. Managed to glide it down onto a road! One of the engineers flew out with a switch the following morning and Les, and the rescue Skyvan took off from the road back to Seeb.
Not the sort of thing you would associate with GF today, but then we had based at BAH,- 5 VC10 4 L1011 4 Bac111s 4 F27s 3 Skyvans, a Skyliner,2 Islanders and two Queen Airs.
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