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14th Jan 2005, 15:13
I hope that this is the right forum for this.
Does anyone know of the details of Gulfstream II (XA-FOU) that did an emergency landing at Mallow Race Course, Cork, Ireland 18th April 1983? There was a programme on the television here some months ago, a collection of unusual news events, one of the events was a Mexican GII that made a forced landing on a grass strip at a Horse Race course after a number of missed approaches into Shannon aiport.
The Captain became a local hero and a celebrity while he had to spend a few weeks in the area while the aircraft insurance company built a hard surface runway so the Aircraft could be flown out of the strip. There was a large gathering of press and locals to see him go and he made a speech thanking them for their hospitality and said a few words in the Irish language before boarding the GII and doing a short field take off, followed by a very low pass of the field and a wing rock. The locals, were delighted!
Subsequently I heard that the Captain had his licence taken away because of the fuel shortage situation that caused the forced landing in the first place.
I was wondering if this was the case and where he his now? Is it possible that he reads PPRuNe?
Does anyone know of the details of Gulfstream II (XA-FOU) that did an emergency landing at Mallow Race Course, Cork, Ireland 18th April 1983? There was a programme on the television here some months ago, a collection of unusual news events, one of the events was a Mexican GII that made a forced landing on a grass strip at a Horse Race course after a number of missed approaches into Shannon aiport.
The Captain became a local hero and a celebrity while he had to spend a few weeks in the area while the aircraft insurance company built a hard surface runway so the Aircraft could be flown out of the strip. There was a large gathering of press and locals to see him go and he made a speech thanking them for their hospitality and said a few words in the Irish language before boarding the GII and doing a short field take off, followed by a very low pass of the field and a wing rock. The locals, were delighted!
Subsequently I heard that the Captain had his licence taken away because of the fuel shortage situation that caused the forced landing in the first place.
I was wondering if this was the case and where he his now? Is it possible that he reads PPRuNe?