Almost nearly just about!

As a matter of interest, a flaps 5 takeoff was sometimes necessary in Johannesburg because of the hot and high conditions. The rotate speed was around 150 knots indicated which at that altitude could be 300km/h (the speed of the TGV) or more. That would eat up a lot of runway and I remember that the Executive Outcomes plane once flattened the localizer antenna at the other end of the runway at Lanseria(FALA) which is 10,000′ long, by inadvertently selecting flaps 5 instead of flaps 15. Lucky you can do those kind of things in Africa!!!! :dev2::diablo::D

ha *thumbs up*

Newforest… No, but only because the landing gear collapsed! 😀

Look, their escape slide wasn’t even functional.

Did they need one that close to the ground?! 😀

What day was that, where was 27vet? 😀

Those are very shady operators in the Congo. They crashed in January. Overran the runway at Kinshasa which is quite long. See this thread

Look, their escape slide wasn’t even functional.

More pictures here

Brown pants in the cockpit I think!

Oooo 😮

What day was that, where was 27vet? 😀