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Old 14th Nov 2014, 04:26
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Originally Posted by Piltdown Man
b. Where you might not have handling arrangements and engineering
Perhaps if there is only a few minutes difference, OK, but otherwise, these convenience factors have nothing to do with "Land at Nearest Suitable Airport". You do only have one chance left, and while obviously the chance that it too will stop/have to be shutdown is very very small, you'd look like a total goat if you decided to fly "past" a "suitable" airport because it had inferior handling arrangements or no engineers and the other stopped before you got to where you'd like to have got-to.
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