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Old 29th Jul 2009, 17:04
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seathugger
 
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Fun landings in Bern.

The late Swiss airline Air Engiadina (RQ, I think) used to make interesting landings at Bern in their shiny new Dornier 328s.

I personally experienced a combat spiral descent from around 8000ft, and a vertical dive and short landing from around the same height.

This was in 1996, I think. ATC must have been playing along, so I guess the driver must have been a military pilot, too.

Shortly afterwards an RQ crew rolled a 328 whilst on a photo shoot over Lake Geneva. (Un)fortunately someone spotted the manoevre and dobbed them in with the authorities. The company was obliged to carry out a somewhat detailed inspection of the aircraft in question, allegedly costing them around US250K

The airline didn't survive long after that. I miss them...
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