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Old 30th Mar 2009, 13:50
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Wunwing
 
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The Connie 1049 accident occurred at Plaisance, Mauritius.

The Pan Am into the swamp in Sydney was a B707 300. I was sitting on the hill having my dinner and watched it happen.I still have the photos of the Boeing crash team repairing the aircraft in Hangar 131 and I made a lot of overtime shovelling swamp mud out of Lower41 prior to Boeing's arrival.

And then there was the DC10 which during morning peak hour overan to the east and ended up in the boundary fence with the nose over General Holmes Drive in about 1970 .

Others that also come to mind are both B707 and B747 gear collapses at Syd terminal during pushback and or fuelling. If they had failed during takeoff---well???
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