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Old 14th Sep 2009, 18:10
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Slats One
 
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Captplaystation is dead on target.

When I worked out of Schiphol we got so used to F100/ 70 and F28 gear collapses - usually the starboard gear - or stuck gear - that it became a non-event.

So often does this (continue to) happen that there is very clearly, a design or maint related 'issue'.

one wonders how, two decades into this history, it has not been solved.

But then you could say the same about the F50 auto prop feather/reverse system that has recently casued yet another fatal accident.

Other than such foibles, lovely planes and we swore by them (rather than at them) in Africa...
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