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Old 22-10-2022, 05:49   #1
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Default Cubansk flyger stakk av med fly og landet i Florida

Lenge siden man har hørt om slikt, men det skjedde idag Fredag 21. Oktober:

The mass exodus from Cuba took an unusual twist Friday, when a pilot in a Soviet-era biplane took off from the island just 90 miles south of Key West and landed on a isolated runway at a mostly-forgotten jetport in the middle of the Everglades.
Running low on fuel, the pilot contacted the control tower at the airport used mainly for training about 50 miles west of Miami and said he needed to touchdown quickly. The call to the tower gave federal agents enough time to race to the jetport to meet the pilot.
“He said he was a defector from Sancti Spiritus, Cuba,” said Gregory Chin, a spokesperson for the Miami-Dade County Aviation Department, which owns the facility. Sancti Spiritus is located in central Cuba, roughly 270 miles from the landing spot, and is one of the island’s oldest Cuban European settlements.
The plane was reported to be a single-engine Antonov An-2 aircraft, a model that on-line references describe as built for crop dusting and other work. Late Friday, the plane, which appears to be a vintage model, remained parked off the long runway at the training facility off Tamiami Trial, which is 30 miles almost directly west of the Miccosukee Casino & Resort and Krome Avenue.
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Old 22-10-2022, 05:51   #2
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Default Re: Cubansk flyger stakk av med fly og landet i Florida

Dette er bak betalings mur så jeg får ikke lagt ut lenke, isteden nappet jeg historien..
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Old 22-10-2022, 13:03   #3
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Landet han på Dade-Collier Training and transition airport?
Vi kjørte jo TaMiami trail i juni, som går forbi flyplassen, men tok avstikkeren og kjørte Loop road, isteden for å kjøre forbi flyplassen. Loop Road er for øvrig et must spør du meg om man er på de kanter og har bil. Vi så 14 ville alligatorer i løpet av en time. De fleste ca 10 fot store. Noen bare 1,5 meter fra oss.
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Old 22-10-2022, 14:22   #4
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Landet han på Dade-Collier Training and transition airport?
Ja, ser sånn ut, her er mere om den flyplassen:


https://www.miami-airport.com/dade_collier.asp

Jeg tror Pan-Am og Eastern brukte den for landings runder i sin tid.
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Old 22-10-2022, 15:03   #5
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Jeg tror Pan-Am og Eastern brukte den for landings runder i sin tid.
I hvert fall PanAm, de hadde sågar et eget kontorbygg og hangar.
Forøvrig grei vei fra Miami til flyplassen; 80 km med én sving underveis!

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Old 15-11-2022, 04:37   #6
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Da har det flyet crashed i dag (Tits Up)
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Betalings mur, kan ikke linke artikkel.
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De var vel neppe så erfarne med modellen... 8)
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