Air Moorea 1121 / A Seven Minute Flight Ends in Tragedy
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What Caused the Cable to Snap?
The investigation spends some time emphasizing the importance of the phenomenon of jet blast for safety. What they think happened was that when these airplanes went specificaly, when this twin auter was parked at the tahiti airport, a big a three forty comes by,. and the jet blast shooting out from the back of it is hitting this twin otter while it's parked, putting stress on those elevators, forcing them down. And then this flight happened, and then the cable snapped. I never would have thought of that ye.
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