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Old 4th Jan 2010, 01:22
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OBie101
 
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re Goma, Lava incursion and Operators

G'Day all; as far as I'm aware, local operators do fly in and out of Goma in various types of airframes, both fixed- and rotary-wing, but the UN will only operate rotary-wing due to the lava incursion - it's effectively reduced the previous available length by about a third. And as earlier-mentioned, lava's not all that easy to remove - most of the locals have adapted by building on top of it rather than trying to regain their original property.

And it is "that" place, after all, as far as local operators go ...
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