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de Havilland DH.104
Dove
c/n 04087
DH.104 Dove c/n
04087 |
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The following 4 photographs and
the message below came in from Bill Teague, 7 January 2012. This is how the Rand Mines Dove ZS-BTM
ended it’s life & career in March 1951. George Gray was checking out
another pilot, I think it might have been either Hansie Haaroff or Peter
Place, when the port engine had a catastrophic structural failure just
before touch down, George told me afterwards that he thought the bang was
the gear collapsing so he firewalled the throttles, but now they were
heading up the slope towards the blue gum plantation and ran out of ideas,
options and airspeed all at the same time... |
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