Yemenia 747SP destroyed completely
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Yemenia 747SP destroyed completely
Pics are now online of the aircraft burnt to ashes barring a few bits, entire fuselage and tail gone.
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/319/19...444fb338_z.jpg
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/319/19...444fb338_z.jpg
outer wing section pic
This picture posted at 747sp.com shows the starboard wing largely surviving outboard of an outboard engine. Otherwise a lot of ashes.
Press accounts describe this as having been the long-term presidential aircraft 7O-YMN, casualty of gunfire during airport "change of command ceremonies" a few days ago. Previously reported to have been seriously damaged and written off in another such incident in March 2015.
Press accounts describe this as having been the long-term presidential aircraft 7O-YMN, casualty of gunfire during airport "change of command ceremonies" a few days ago. Previously reported to have been seriously damaged and written off in another such incident in March 2015.
Having had a sniff around Google Earth this afternoon, I take it that the photograph of the SP was taken at Khormaksar?
Some heretic once commented that if a 5 megaton nuclear weapon was ever to be dropped on Aden then it might just cause $100 worth of damage.
I could not possibly comment having only spent two years there soaking up the atmosphere.
Some heretic once commented that if a 5 megaton nuclear weapon was ever to be dropped on Aden then it might just cause $100 worth of damage.
I could not possibly comment having only spent two years there soaking up the atmosphere.
Aden
Why anyone would fight over this place is beyond me. I spent a lifetime at Khormaksar between '63 and '65 on good old 84 Sqn. Aden is surely the armpit of the world.
Global anatomy
Lower down Helena - half way between armpit and ankle, and round back!
