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Tupolev aircraft in trouble

Discussion in 'Everything Else Heritage' started by richards, May 5, 2011.

  1. richards

    richards Part of the furniture

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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13286479

    Scary ...

    Richard
     
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    Looks like the pilot has been on the vodka........
     
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    The crew did extremely well to get the aircraft down in one piece!
     
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    It's interesting that there are two videos of the 154 landing (or at least attempting to land) with one showing it returning to Ch'kalovsky and the other showing it making an aborted (?) landing a long way down the runway at Zhukovsky
     

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