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Old 21st Feb 2017, 05:46
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mickjoebill
 
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ABC report plane made a 180

ABC news 24 are repeating an earlier report by Ben Knight which says the plane took off then essentiall did at least a 180.

He says
"The initial radar tracking of the plane suggested that it didn't really make it very far past the end of the runway before crashing into the DFO shopping Center, which lies just a very very short distance from the end of that runway. But it err since become apparent that the plane did go beyond the runway, over the freeway that forms the border of the airport and then tried to turn back and it was on the return to the airport that the catastrophic engine failure obviously led to the plane descending very quickly, according to eyewitnesses, they said it was just coming in very low very fast and at completely the wrong angle and it crashed into that shopping center."


Chanel Seven report says it crashed as per the flight radar track.

Mickjoebill

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