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Old 27th Feb 2009, 19:39
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IO540
 
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I have been given this by a colleague living in The Netherlands who asks me to post it here:

Witness (Dutch) on Dutch TV about Turkish Airways crash:

The approach was very smooth. Suddenly the plane dropped a lot. I
became light in my chair. I then heard full power being applied, but
it was too late. The plane pitched up but hit the ground with the tail.

What is new is that he claims he could feel the sudden drop before the
engines spooled up.

Amazingly the man experienced less than a week before a taxying
accident at Istanbul when taxying out for a flight to Iraq
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