Sorry for OT: Looking at the satelite photos on Google Maps I see the small civilian apron in the south with 3 stands and huge helicopter aprons north of the rwy. Is this an oil field area with heavy chopper ops or a military field with some sqn of Algerian choppers?

Skyservice (of Canada) had a 767 similarly damaged at Punta Cana about 2 years ago. It's back in service now. Was reparied in situ (IIRC by Boeing themselves).

Wow thats creased

BTW the Google cache prevents little thing like withdrawn pictures from disapearing down the memory hole :uhoh:

"picture withdrawn : Algeria being quite a secretive country, the author requested removal..... sorry"

Sounds like "Catch 22" is alive and well and living in Algeria!

Jack

PS I bet the flight crew creased themselves as well .....