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From: brent@poseidon.UUCP (Brent P. Callaghan)
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Subject: Re: de Havilland Comet at ORD?
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Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 09:05:08 EDT
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>I used to work on flight controls for the P3 Orion, and as far as
>I know, they haven't been in production for years.  They are still
>in use, though, and will be for quite a while.  I don't know if
>any Electras are still in civilian use or not.

A Lockheed Electra crashed on takeoff at Reno, Nevada last year.

Weren't the original series of crashes attributed to the
wing falling off ?
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