Forced landing 300 miles off course

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Forced landing 300 miles off course

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Made a 'crash landing' in Devon covered in ash after travelling SE instead of NE.

Was the volcanic ash to blame??? *-) :dunno:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/8644640.stm
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:-O

I think it belonged to the Irish Cowboy featured elsewhere in this forum :lol:

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:lol: :lol:

I hear it was operating the new Ryanair postal contract "You tell us where you want to send it and we'll let you know where we took it"
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:lol: :lol: :lol:

LMAO :lol:

That's a cracker Mr R :lol:

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There's only one possible response to this.....COO COO
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Aaw! :'( I thought I was going to read about a successor to "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Corrigan
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Garry Russell wrote::lol: :lol:

I hear it was operating the new Ryanair postal contract "You tell us where you want to send it and we'll let you know where we took it"
8)

Spot on Garry :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :agree:


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I wonder.....


The following note was delivered to British Airways head office yesterday:



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Translation:
"Put 30 million euro in the wastebasket of the Icelandic embassy tonight or we will turn the volcano back on again…. Do not call the police!"




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Come on now chaps. It's not right to be getting a few cheep laffs from this poor wee birds predicament.

We should be thinking, what can we do to help him to get back to his loft? Or is that just Pie in the Sky?

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Perhaps if there's a number around his neck we could ring it *-)
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