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Old 20th Aug 2002, 10:02
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hmmmm interesting..................

With a load of luck (you´d need to be a 10 times over lottery winner here) it is just possible that you could bring the aircraft down with minimal damage and minimal casualties down the back........

However, throw in some problems like an engine fire, CB´s dotted here there and everywhere and wx down to absolute minimums and I fear that you and the peeps down the back would be nothing but a smouldering hole in the ground.

Eff oh hits it right on the head when he mentions the fact that Professional Pilots have to go through years of training and re-training......... someone who´s spent many a sad lonely night in his/her bedroom staring at a computer screen just aint gonna be able to hack it. Sorry mate, its a nice fantasy and all that but it would be bordering on suicide, educated suicide but suicide all the same.
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