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Old 1st Oct 2013, 16:29
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LeadSled
 
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Volumex,
CASA predecessors were very good at landing gear up: one of the 695As was landed gear up twice. If you are going to land gear up, an Twin Commander is the aeroplane, with a bit of luck, all you will have is gravel rash along the belly.
Also the DCA NSW Region C-310 --- twice.
The DH 125 at Avalon.
Dove at Camden
Plus a few write-offs, both in "normal" operation and in "test flying" (a nice little Italian amphib. at the bottom of Pittwater, the severely damaged Merlin at Mangalore. ) and some amazing incidents like dead-sticking an F-27 onto Mudgee after shutting down the wrong engine.
The there was the C-310 that ran out of motion lotion and wound up in a paddock.
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