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Took two cranes. Pulled it out, temp fixed the nose gear, and rolled to a space on the ramp as Cayman Airlines had NO HANGER. (They used to change engines and other major maint in the open and in the rain.) What kind of airline owns 5 aircraft and not even have a A/B check hanger?
Somewhere I have a box of pics...and pieces of the aircraft.
BTW, nothing happened to the Caymanian pilot aside from driving a desk for a few months...they fired american pilots and FAs for minor infractions..but if you were local and knew people in the gov...you could put a 737 in the water and keep your job.
BTW, I spend $17M completely overhauling the aircraft...salt water and airplanes don't go well together...updated avionics, added TCAS, new engines, etc....and the government spent $1M to get out of their lease and gave the airplane back to the leasing company.
Seems that local people were stating they would not fly aircraft #CCW as it was jinked. Superstitious folk.
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