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Old 4th Feb 2010, 05:29
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SRENNAPS
 
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remember the jet with the massive fuel leak? Fuselage punctured by the flap IIRC, or was it by a detaching flexifoot?
Oh yes, I remember it well. It was a flexifoot. Sliced through the skin of the aircraft and the internal tank like a hot knife through butter. It could have been much worse.

Me and a couple of other Sooties had to remove the tank and then TTF were going to recover the rest. What a nightmare trying to get the tank out. Use of a stanley knife springs to mind
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