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« on: July 11, 2003, 03:44:11 pm »
Fresh off the wire..the last flyable HE-111 in the world that was based out of the CAF squad in Midland,Texas crashes in Wyoming..see the link..
http://www.wyomingnews.com/topstories.asp

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« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2003, 03:51:41 pm »
...here is a pic of the plane that crashed as taken off the CAF website in Midland,TX.. S~!Rocky...TX-CUDA on UBITX-CUDA on HyperLobby
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« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2003, 06:02:54 pm »
Truly a loss , and what a beautiful bird she was !!!Hearts and prayers go to the families and the refurbishers of the once great plane.S~TX-TornadoBlue 3TX TO
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« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2003, 11:39:47 am »
There are some more pics of this plane posted in the General Forum on the Ubi page. Shows a much different paint job than the one I posted above from the CAF page and also show some interior shots..S~!Rocky...TX-CUDA on UBITX-CUDA on HyperLobby
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« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2003, 12:50:27 pm »
Sad. Why didn't they bail out? Did something go wrong at low altitude? Or did they not want to bail out because it was the last of it's kind?TX-KingsnakeWhite >+Commanding Officer
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« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2003, 01:16:33 pm »
From the news report I read , they were @ extremely low alt. and only on one engine.B~T-Dawg
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« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2003, 03:24:35 pm »
Poor guys. I bet he worked his butt off to get that piece of history down in one piece. Cost them their life... What a shamed for the sake of a 60 year old piece of steel that isn't even working right..... They had no chance with the glass noseS~TX-FlightRisk Black 3
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