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Old 26th Dec 2006, 15:15
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FlyVMO
 
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This is really hard to look at...having spent 4 years on that flight line. All Riddle planes are secured with steel chains at 3 points at all times, 4 points would almost definitely have been in use if they saw this coming in on the radar....but I think the tie down rings would have ripped out of the airframe in a tornado anyway (as Danny pointed out, massive forces involved)....my God it will be months before its back to normal...
Thank god no one was killed.
Video link to local TV news Helicopter footage...
http://www.wesh.com/video/10606743/index.html

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