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Old 12th Jan 2015, 12:58
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The handwritten caption says all but not quite all.
We were on our way to Akrotiri in a 'K' on the infamous 'red eye' special when we were told to divert to Cairo ! Not enough go juice we said so they told us to land at Larnaca and phone Akro ops. So we did. Turned out that Akrotiri's runway had been 'blacked' by one of the returning a/c pictured above. A very stiff crosswind has seen him run out of directional control and the a/c was damaged.
So we waited at Larnaca for several hours whilst they cleared the runway and we were given the nod to fly to Akrotiri.
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