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To: ansel12

When I left Viet Nam in 1971, we flew out on a four engine plane. I can’t remember what it was.

About an hour out we lost an engine. The pilot came out and told us and asked if we wanted to go back to Saigon and get another plane.Nobody did.


99 posted on 05/25/2007 11:48:10 AM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get.)
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To: philetus
When I left Viet Nam in 1971, we flew out on a four engine plane. I can’t remember what it was.

I think I read somewhere that civilian airlines were often used to transport troops to and from RVN.Assuming that you weren't on a military aircraft it was probably a DC-8 or a 707...both of which had 4 engines.

101 posted on 05/25/2007 11:52:36 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative ("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
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