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Wheel flies off Canuck plane

by Mackrick » Sat May 16, 2009 3:22 pm

A terrifying moment was captured on tape by a Toronto-area family as a Continental Airlines flight lost one of its right wheels upon landing at Buffalo International Airport.

http://www.torontosun.com/news/world/2009/05/15/9464756-sun.html#/news/torontoandgta/2009/05/14/pf-9460296.html

Duc, sequere, aut de via decede

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Re: Wheel flies off Canuck plane

by Mayfly » Sat May 16, 2009 3:42 pm

:-o

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Re: Wheel flies off Canuck plane

by Wedgy » Sat May 16, 2009 3:47 pm

Bloody nora :-o

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Erm, so if there have been 3 undercarriage failures in 3 years ... erm, shouldnt something be done? :-o

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Re: Wheel flies off Canuck plane

by Mackrick » Sat May 16, 2009 6:06 pm

Quite scary really

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Re: Wheel flies off Canuck plane

by Saracenman » Sat May 16, 2009 6:17 pm

what's the problem? it had a spare! =))

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Re: Wheel flies off Canuck plane

by Jigsaw » Sat May 16, 2009 6:29 pm

Saracenman wrote:what's the problem? it had a spare!

LMAO

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