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Aviation in Congo documentary (Read 88 times)
Oct 5th, 2005 at 2:25am

Ivan   Offline
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Was on TV5 Europe last night. Never seen so much flying wrecks as on that one...

They had an Il-18, doors didn't work and fluid leaking from the undercarriage. The CAA guy came to inspect it, asked the pilots if they really wanted to fly the thing. At that moment he found out that the whole frontoffice crew didn';t understand french and spoke bad english at best.

Other frequen sights: all An-24 variants, in various states (ranging from flyable to scrapheap)
B727 seems to be popular there too.

Hewa Bora (only company there that flies to europe) Maitenance hangar... that was the only one that had something that looked like a roof. No Tristar of them in sight though
 

Russian planes: IL-76 (all standard length ones),  Tu-154 and Il-62, Tu-134 and An-24RV&&&&AI flightplans and repaints can be found here
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