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Old 18th Oct 2011, 11:24
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longer ron
 
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Wanderoo...I wonder what the casualty rate for "real" v "practice" assymetric was on the Canberra.
There probably were not many 'real' assymetric landing accidents,but as we know unfortunately there were many practice accidents.

There was a spectacular series of pics taken at Marham in 1978 when WJ753 cartwheeled onto the threshold with a crewmember hanging out the door (I believe...have not seen them for years)
They were returning from cyprus with 2 crews on board (as opposed to 2 crew !) with one crew mwmber sitting on rumble seat -and ISTR that after a run and break they were a little hot on finals and closed the throttles but then I think got a little low/slow and on opening the throttles rapidly got assymetric spool up which rolled the wingtip into ground contact...I cannot find a link to the photos but they were astounding
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