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Old 4th Dec 2013, 07:01
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G-XCEL was indeed very tragic. However there is no similarity here really - in that case the cause was a failing freewheel in the combiner gearbox and the ensuing vibrations broke the acft up in flight, leaving debris spread over a fairly wide area. G-SPAO was intact on impact.
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