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Old 11th Jan 2012, 12:11
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Agaricus bisporus
 
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A B707 on a cargo flight to load fish at a lakeside strip on Lake Victoria landed at night a mile or two short - in the oggin, no flare, no reduction in the rate of descent (altimeter mis-set?) It remained afloat and locals towed it to the shore in the morning. The radome and nosegear bay were torn open but little damage to the hull. That's what they meant by "Boeing Built". I imagine the crew were somewhat red-faced.

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Didn't an Austrian (DC9??) land in a frozen field close to Munich airport in the mid/late '90s and remain astonishingly undamaged.

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