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A Look Back at How a King Air 200 Provided Life-Saving Support
by Robert S. Grant
As Air France’s Airbus A330-200 engines whined to a stop, sand patterns twirled on the aircraft’s windows and moments later, an all-encompassing “brown out” rampaged into N’Djamena, Chad, and closed the central African airport (FTTJ). Somewhere near the wind-blasted terminal, Beechcraft King Air 200 (N22071) waited patiently. Based in the country’s capital city, the airplane carried the lettering UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) on its sides and I had been contracted as pilot.
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