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The other day I came across a great video of the landing of T-55. You may recall that she lost her left main landing gear. It turns out that my original post was incorrect, she did not make a belly landing. Rather she landed on her right gear and her nose gear, in a cross wind. Great job by the crew!
Updated on June 19, 2014: the video report from Fox News that I embedded on June 8, 2012 is no longer available, fortunately I found another video of the landing that I am sharing here.
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