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Old 13th Sep 2017, 12:28
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blind pew
 
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Think it was Caledonian at Heraklion..remember there were two wrecks there in the early 70s..
The airtours was a heavy landing which broke the aircraft..it was flown back with one engine hanging off and all four pylons bent. Rather than ask BOAC the skipper ordered the FO to send a telex to BEA airtours..the greek engineer refused to sign the aircraft out so they flew it back to the UK where Boeing declared that it was beyond economical repair.
Most of the Gibs that I operated where there and backs. Captains only and a display of how a Trident could be flown if it was around the rock dodging "smokey joe" ..a Spanish warship anchored off the approach which was rumoured to be keen to open fire on us. Meant a stabilised approach from around 500ft whereas we had been taught 3,000 was the norm.
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