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TP> Our local News had a field day on this un-news worthy incident.
GD> Your story reminded me for some reason of a strange thing I saw a
GD> couple of years ago at Brisbane Airport. It was a Fokker (uhm..
GD> it's so long since I've been out there I've forgotten what
GD> they're called. Little twinjets that look like a shrunken 727)
F28 Fellowship.
GD> that did a go-around with the gear up (but the gear was also up
GD> on approach). What made it odd was that my friend and I noticed
GD> it was only running on one engine - starboard - the other was not
GD> trailing smoke like the other Fokkers we had seen. It climbed
GD> away west not to be seen or heard of by us again. I managed to
GD> snap a photo of it first though, and on careful inspection of the
GD> photo later we found that there was indeed only one line of
GD> smoke. Any idea what was going on?
Unsure, it could of been a few things. Practice engine out approach,
testing of the ILS or it could of been a real emergency and they
went somewhere else, strange that it wouldn't land at Bris.
Sorry I can't help you much, was it an East West, Ansett or CAA?
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