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Old 5th Dec 2012, 18:21
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acmech1954
 
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'I witnessed a Canberra B2 suffer v low altitude asymetric power at Stornoway in 1979 at which time the pilot chopped the throttles leveled the wings and started "Our father.....". The aircraft missed the ILS by about 15` and damage was limited to shock loading the undercarriage when it turned onto the taxiway after a journey across the grass'

I remember it well, we were stood on the pan waiting for it to appear from the same direction as the others, when appeared from behind the hangar from totally the wrong direction, to our amazement. The next few days where spent crawling all over it taking lots of measurements to see how bent it was, and it proved to still be within limits, just goes to prove what a tough old bird the old canberra was.
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