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Old 31st Dec 2002, 11:33
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broadreach
 
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Thanks for the clarification, ETOPS and goldenrivet. At that same little airport in the upper Amazon the brick outhouse qualities of the 1-11 came in quite handy. Returning to the apron for a hosedown and gear inspection after hitting a pig/dog on the takeoff run and aborting was not unusual. And on one occasion the aircraft swerved to avoid a larger animal or a person (never did find out what it was), left main gear hit a hummock of concrete from runway repair, which collapsed said gear back, jamming the flaps. The aircraft did get off the ground and after burning off fuel for several hours with flaps and the remaining gear down, landed at a place called Tarapoto without much further damage. BAC repaired it in situ and the plane was flying again a few months later.
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