Talk:Loganair Flight 670A
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Witness to the night
editI was there the night before the accident. I was in charge of the mail loading of the plane and optimal loading of cargo (main weight in the mid section) with the cargo nets. Edinburgh was clear of snow at 22:00. We started to Load the plane around this time. We put on 1.8 tonnes of mail and gave the pilots the weight, 30mins before it was due to take of the snow came in and got heavier and heavier with near horizontal snow falling and now lying approx 11:30. The pilots decided to abort the flight because the main runway would have been layered with snow. So they got out and we all locked the plane up and went our separate ways. The snow that night went straight into the air ducts and rested like slush at the bottom of the airintake. Now it freezes together in a block of ice. It started easily with the engines but when the plane lifted off it slide back into the air intake and choked it of air - the rest is history. R Hutchison Royal Mail operative. 92.20.144.250 (talk) 14:40, 11 September 2022 (UTC)