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DC-3 Flight Aborted!
Recently posted on social media was a mishap in which a DC-3 aircraft foundered in the jungles of Columbia at the Villavicencio Vanguard airport. Fortunately, only minor injuries were reported. An anti-narcotics team reportedly found that the mishap occurred owing to technical failures, not pilot error. In the moment, half the elevator separated from the tail. The plane’s tail never lifted from the ground as the takeoff roll started, and hard left rudder was apparently...
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