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Old 3rd Apr 2014, 19:04
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Piltdown Man
 
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Fokker 50 five miles behind a 747. Result 85 degrees of bank and 15 degrees nose down. Fortunately we were in cloud and the passengers never saw how extreme the upset was. They just felt it! The biggest problem was that the go-around altitude was lower than our upset altitude.
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