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Old 19th Dec 2013, 03:45
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Engine caught fire on a 707 one night over the Middle East, extinguished and diverted to the only practical airport available, and arrived to find it was now raining and the ILS was u/s. (GPS/INS not yet invented )

Murphy was alive and well.

Ended up doing a manual, visual, NDB approach at night and broke out just above minima - on three.

But then we only had a rudimentary auto-pilot and auto-throttle anyway, so it was really - almost - just another day at the office.

No problem.
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