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Old Oct 30, 2013 | 8:25 am
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Originally Posted by Lockz
I know they're still in demand for their ability to land on gravel runways, and used by northern airlines for that purpose. Not sure what other jets of that size are able to do that.
Many of the Russian airliners were built for marginal runways.
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