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Old 7th Apr 2012, 14:04
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chuks
 
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I used to fly to Bimini, the Bahamas fairly often. One morning, instead of the usual abandoned dope-runner aircraft, there was a shiny-new Piper Tomahawk sat just off the runway in the vines off to the right there. It looked just fine except for being sagged down on the right wing.

It seems that a German tourist pilot from Florida had sweet-talked a young, female CFI into a hop over to Bimini, even though that was not on the operator's insurance. He was PF and on short finals he got it badly wrong but would not let the CFI take control, so that they ended up tearing off the right-hand main gear leg on touchdown, when the machine ended up out there in the weeds.

Next, another doper aircraft landed, a few nights later, and blew the Tomahawk over on its back with its propwash.

That one was mostly a sad joke, but airline flying is serious stuff. I am sure we will all be watching to see what the reports say about why this happened.
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