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Old 12th Apr 2011, 16:57
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JW411
 
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I was in the congo line at JFK one night waiting my turn to take-off on 13R. One of the local commuter airlines was flying a fleet of modified Nord 262 twin turboprops (I think the Americans called them Mohawk 298s). They were forever calling for "intersection take-offs" and were darting in and out of the congo line like ferrets up a drainpipe.

Anyway, there was a PanAm 747 about five aircraft ahead of me and he moved forward. The chap driving the Nord 262 had not moved forward far enough for his "intersection take-off" and the 747 took the entire fin and rudder off the Nord.

"God dammit" said our commuter friend "somebody has taken my tail off".

He then evacuated his aircraft so we had passengers running around in the dark in a congo line of 30 or so wide-body aircraft. How no one got killed was a miracle.

The 747 crew did not feel a thing.
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