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Old 30th June 2008 | 23:44
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Malcolm McPherson's book "Robert's Ridge" relates the account of a Spec Ops mission gone horribly wrong in Afghanistan. One of the Chinook helicopters was hit by an RPG and suffered a Flight Control Hydraulics failure (The "Collective" would begin to bind up as fluid pumped into the resevoir was lost!) and the account of how the crew worked together to land the aircraft safely is an amazing story.
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