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Old 3rd Oct 2014, 22:48
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Valiantone
 
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Sadly XH764 fell foul of the One airframe gate guardian per airfield butchering session in 1989/90

I seem to recall the FlatIron had a nasty tendency to burst into flames on start up, and then there was the well known story I remember reading in my Air Training Corps day of the fuel tank incident at Horsham St Faith.

Somewhat distracted by 74 Sqn Hunters dropping all over the place, the 23 Sqn pilot never realised (initially) that the calls from the tower to say that you are on fire were meant for him.

As he was taxiing towards the runway the release pins? for the drop tanks came adrift, and as they had nowhere to go carried on with the jet slowing burrowing into the taxiway and catching fire.

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