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Old 13th Dec 2006, 12:08
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Originally Posted by VS1711
I read the same article in The Mail. While it was pretty clear to anyone who knew or cared a jot about aviation that they were describing a tailstrike, and anyone looking at the pictures will recognise the APU access panels, this is the kind of lazy and irresponsible writing that gives punters the heeby jeebies.
How do you know that they are not open as they have been scraped? Were you there? This is just yet another example of aviation insiders' arrogance towards straightforward journalism that avoids going into unnecessary detail.

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