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Old 29th Nov 2008, 02:34
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In tomorrow's press..........
....... the crew of the Lockheed A3-777 were in a life & death struggle with the stricken no. 3 engine of the twin-jet prior to dumping hydraulic fuel over the Coral Sea. Airport rescue services were placed on high alert because the aircraft was now operating in “degraded air/ground mode status” and crew had to make an [abnormal] manual approach using only the fringe-area localizer for ground guidance.
A passenger and former NASA astronaut, (now a St. Kilda architect)said, "Apollo 13 pales by comparison to this. In all my years of flying this was by far the most serious and scary incident I have ever been involved in, I honestly thought my number was up and put my passport in my pocket so my body could be identified"

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