R4H :
DvHelmut bent ac in theatre on take off. BofI found he had done everything correctly but no factors given in ODM for sand or gravel.
I was the Ground Eng on that one. Never really sure if Helmut saved my life, or endangered it in the first place! I was at the Stbd para door looking for baddies and the tail strike happened right below my feet.
We were using a dried up lake bed way out west. It had a hard crusty surface, but soft sand underneath. Albert was determined to stay on the ground and we were still ploughing furrows 100m + beyond the end of the strip. Someone on "the flight" will know how far forward the SFSG bloke does his point duty beyond the end of the strip - well, we ran over his Bergen.
Shat myself.