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Old 26th Mar 2009, 01:06
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Wasn't there a collision over Sydney a long time ago when an international flight clipped the tail of a TAA jet, or maybe the other way around, and had its innards hanging out when it landed on a foam carpet
From memory a Canadian Pacific DC8 hadn't vacated runway after landing and TAA took most of the fin off. Very close to very nasty.

As far as the Ben Sandilands comment is concerned, I don't find it wholly unreasonable. On the basis of the speculation on the incident thread they were 4" from a Max power excursion into small buildings and a small overrun area.
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