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Old 18th Mar 2010, 07:55
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HEATHROW DIRECTOR
 
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TU-104s used to deploy them at Heathrow occasionally. R/T went something like:

"Aeroflot 241, do NOT release your parachute until you are off the runway".
"Ooops.... Bealine 123, go-around, I say again go-around......"
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