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Old 27th Jun 2006, 11:31
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I'm amazed at how little the outside world has picked up on what's happened here - yet!

Aircraft diverts from usual destination due bad weather to another airfield with equally bad weather (whoops).

Probably very poorly prepared for short diversion - where are the charts? and probably never been there before.... plenty of opportunity to mis set ILS QDM's etc.

Aircraft hits grass with such force that they leave a main wheel behind - that is some impact!

Divert again finally to a cast iron weather diversion airfield with only two wheels.

How much fuel was left? Fumes.

I have done Liege - STN many times in the past and can imagine the poor crew may have been completely exhausted through out.

Well done lads, I reckon you were quite lucky that night but this deserves an extensive inquest so that your colleagues can learn from your less than perfect flight.

I'm quite worried by this one.

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