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Old 14th May 2011, 07:00
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billyt
 
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You have to be joking right?

As PIC your job is to get the aircraft back on the ground and not worry about any disruption it may cause at the airport you decide to use. Next thing you will be wanting to use airports with cheaper parking or the rail connections are better or some other lame reason.

If it is the closest and suitable then use it.

It appears in this case the engine was contained so a single engine landing is hardly likely to have caused a runway blockage.

You would look a bloody idiot to divert to a more distant airport on one donk and then it gives up the ghost before you get there.
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