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Old 3rd Aug 2008, 17:04
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ShyTorque

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There was a very interesting (!) report in Air Clues (IIRC) some twenty years ago about a British Army Lynx which snagged a cable across a Norwegian fiord with a skid and became "hung up" and eventually went inverted. The energy of the aircraft was absorbed relatively gently as it was such a long cable run. The pilot eventually manoeuvred the aircraft free, or rather it fell off the cable and it was recovered to the shore for a change of aircrew underclothing. No photos though.

I lost three colleagues to the 1979 Rhodesia wire strike accident (Archie Cook, Mike Smith, Bob Hodges) and an ex-instructor mate (Chas Chubb) in an Australian Chinook wire strike; Chas was on an Oz exchange tour. There was hardly anything left of the first; the biggest piece of the aircraft I saw photographed was an engine oil cooler.
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