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Old 19th Jun 2009, 06:35
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A certain company I used to work for landing at the military airport at Kano (I think) in Nigeria instead of the civil airport in a 747 Classic at night - To be fair, they were doing an NDB approach and on the turn inbound the power failed at the civil airport so it went completely black, whilst the military one stayed lit-up so they made a landing on the much shorter runway.
They quickly worked out it was the wrong airport because of the lack of runway and so turned around and got ready to takeoff again. While they were doing that the military woke up - not surprising with a large jet landing like that! - and hopped into jeeps & trucks to find out WTF was going on.
Just as they passed behind the 747, the crew gave it full power and blew over the jeep with the Colonel in it ..... Then on landing at the civil airport they blew most of the 16 main tyres from two big brake applications in a short period of time and so the plane was beached until they could fly in some more wheel assembys. Had to bribe the military with $$$ to keep them from making lots of complaints.
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