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Old 15th Jan 2016, 10:10
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1.3VStall
 
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TTN,

I could give all the details of the Tristar accident. However, suffiice to say that, after a flight deck pigs, on the second bounce during the "landing" the aircraft smegged the runway hard enough to fracture the rear spar. During the subsequent go around and visual circuit 4.5 tonnes of Avtur vented into the Oxfordshire skies through the damaged spar - you could smell it for weeks.

Lockheed brought a retired stress engineer out of retirement to devise the repair scheme and manage the repair. IIRC it cost about £4.5m.
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