Gear up @ Diego Garcia

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11-28-2006, 05:02 PM

joel payne

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Gear up @ Diego Garcia

Wonder if the cost to repair will be deducted from the crews paychecks?

http://www.zianet.com:80/tedmorris/dg/bombers4.html

11-28-2006, 05:17 PM

multipilot

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ouch, I know exactly whose pockets it's going to come out of.

11-28-2006, 08:53 PM

Skygirl

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Originally Posted by joel payne

Wonder if the cost to repair will be deducted from the crews paychecks?

http://www.zianet.com:80/tedmorris/dg/bombers4.html

Wow Joel!...LOL...that's coming out of my paycheck, thank you!...How does one forget to put the landing gear down? Was someone being a smartass, or did it just get stuck?

Love the stuff you post.

11-28-2006, 09:31 PM

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How does one forget to put the landing gear down?

One word.

Fatigue

And never say, "That would never happen to me."

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11-28-2006, 09:40 PM

Skygirl

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The one photo where they are lifting the aircraft, resembles a baleen whale, that a great white took a bite out of.

11-29-2006, 08:54 PM

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Now you know why they say "check gear down" or something to that effect at military fields. Had me scratching my head the first time I heard that as a student at BLV.

I remember reading something about this. Hopefully everybody was ok. Planes can be fixed/replaced...