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Old 6th Jun 2011, 15:51
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rubik101
 
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Nothing new there then!

Many years ago, at a well known training school in Oxfordshire, I had the misfortune to be positioning back to said school in the back of a Seneca. We touched down on the tarmac runway with the merest squeak of rubber and continued descending, much to everyone's surprise. The right gear had collapsed bringing us to a rather ungainly and somewhat misaligned stop close to the runway edge. The stbd prop looked very sad.
I legged it to the Ops room and withstood a whole host of questions, most of which I couldn't answer, mainly because I was very much PNF in the back. It later became apparent that the aircraft had been flown the previous day by two students from another nation who had been seen to wallop it into the ground and quietly walked away, saying nothing at the time.

Plus ca change, plus ce la meme chose.
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