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Old 5th Mar 2011, 21:56
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Heliarctic
 
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The Dash 8 pictured here is indeed a Dash 8-100.
As a note this could easily have gone way more wrong, because the aircraft rest less than 5 meters from the edge which drops between 10 and 50 meters along the length of the runway at an angle of 70 to 80 degrees. The other length of the runway has a road alongside it, along with office buildings and three hangars.
Eiher end of the runway have very little runoff, runway 05 has a drop of approx. 50 meters down to a road, while 23 has a bit more but ending in elevated terrain of approx.3-4 meters and after that a drop into jagged rocks/cliffs.
The full length of the runway is 950 meters.
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