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Old 18th Oct 2012, 19:35
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Lyman
 
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Ordinarily, the strut survives, and the spar breaks, or worse, so this outcome is not 'typical'.

Remember the Nose strut from Narita? After that last bounce? Awesome strength. There is nothing wrong with the airplane. Abuse, whether deliberate or inadvertent, is abuse, nonetheless.
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