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Old 20th January 2008 | 15:46
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Cim Jartner
 
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From: I'm Not Telling
I think the chance of a Puma rolling over during taxi is very limited - however the chance of one rolling over on a 'heavy' landing caused by any sort of power failure, mishandling is almost guaranteed.

I know someone who has had hard landings due to power 'failure' in both a Wessex and a Puma. In the Wessex incident he had a little sideways movement on landing and was full of troops - the ac stayed upright. On the Puma he landed with only forward movement, reasonably light etc but went over on its side - he states to this day that had the second incident happened in a Wessex it would have stayed upright!
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