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Old 20th Jun 2011, 18:36
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zlin77
 
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Air Ambulance Queenairs

From memory...as my old logbooks are not with me in Istanbul,when I joined in 1981 we had AMB, AM?, AMQ & AMS....AMS, the nicest one was destroyed by fire on the ground in Dubbo in the early 80's, arson was suspected but not confirmed, I recall seeing the burnt out remains on the tarmac there, fuselage nearly non-existant but intact wings on either side, still with about 800 litres of 100 Octane inside...this was replaced on a temporary basis by VH-TGF, the less said about that pile of C%#P the better.....
During my Masling time CLH, MWK & I think MWM, the Queenairs did a SYD-WLM-SYD @ 18:00 each evening as well as SYD-NGA-CTM-NGA-SYD on a Friday, also SYD-TEM-WWL-CDO (overnight) & return the next morning, I recall one of these came to grief one night in WWL, seems a NOTAM was issued about RWY works( a trench across the RWY), all went well on landing until the trench was encountered on rollout with the resulting sudden and noisy stop!
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