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Old 23rd Oct 2016, 14:56
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Yes. I remember the Shorts sat on the ground for ages before getting scrapped. It was an Air Liberte DC-9 that hit them with its left wingtip. Chopped the poor FO to pieces.
It was another classic CDG 'dual language ops' incident. The DC-9 got his T/O clearance in French. The Shorts got his line up clearance in English. He was entering the runway using one of the high speed exits in reverse so to speak, so they'd have had to look backwards to see if the runway was clear.

After this accident, use of the 'high speeds' to line up was forbidden.

They've kept on with the dual language stuff though.....
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