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Valley 24th October

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STARIL
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Valley 24th October

Post by STARIL » Tue Oct 24, 2023 3:04 pm

Chinook has just recovered Jupiter ZM499 from the golf course back onto the airfield. Apparently the Jupiter had an emergency landing late last week
KB

TAFFEVANS
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Re: Valley 24th October

Post by TAFFEVANS » Tue Oct 24, 2023 8:31 pm

STARIL wrote:
Tue Oct 24, 2023 3:04 pm
Chinook has just recovered Jupiter ZM499 from the golf course back onto the airfield. Apparently the Jupiter had an emergency landing late last week
KB
Chinook was ZD575 ‘SHF259’ - the Jupiter had been there for more than a week, 3.10!

STARIL
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Re: Valley 24th October

Post by STARIL » Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:30 pm

Thanks to TAFFEVANS for the update on the accident date to ZM499. I was only going off what we were told on the day.

Further to my initial post here is a log of the day
Hawk ZK017/H/4, ZK023/N/4, ZK018/I/4, ZK035/FK/25, ZK020/K/4, (ZK021)/L/4, (ZK024)/O/4, (ZK031)/FG/25, (ZK012)/C/4, ZK011/B/4, (ZK025)/FA/25
Jupiter ZM498/98, (ZM499)/99 non airworthy without assistance
Chinook (ZD575)
Phenom ZM336/*/45
Texans ZM325, ZM330, ZM341, ZM331, ZM332, ZM325, ZM329, ZM323, ZM328, ZM340
Of the Texans, all carried the last three on the fin but, only ZM332 still carried the last three on the nose

KB

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