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Old 3rd Jun 2003, 05:14
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There was an accident many years back (Robin I think) where the pilot had hit a haystack on landing. Everything looked fine but the spar had been fractured and it failed structurally on the next flight.

Probably in the old AAIB bulletins somewhere.

In fact ... here it is .....


G-DELS accident report

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