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Old 14th Dec 2011, 14:28
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Heathrow Harry
 
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Having been through Jakarta Halim just after the BA incident in '82 I can also remember a Singapore Airbus which had hit the cloud - the front fuselage looked like someone had worked it over with steel wire - all the paint gone and some severe surface damage. It was there for several weeks IIRC
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