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Old 04-27-2012, 06:32 AM  
EddyTheDog
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Originally Posted by sperbonzo View Post
I had a landing like that 11 years ago during the middle of a massive gale that hit Heathrow coming back from Berlin. We were so crabwise that I could look down the runway from my window on final. People bracing for impact, stuff flying around the cabin... Not fun. We were the last plane to land and heathrow shut down for the next 12 hours.



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The worst incident I had was a take off from Kathmandu when I was doing the backpacker thing. 2 vultures flew into the engines and they burst into flames.

The airport is at the bottom of a mountain - It was totally fucked....
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