Originally Posted by
shillard
LDH is associated with all kinds of strange stuff. When I was learning to fly at YPMQ a local cowboy airline (no longer in operation after losing 1 or 2 aircraft) inbound from LDH declared an emergency and jumped the queue (I think it was an AFIZ then), touched down, taxied off the strip and the engines died. They had literally run dry.
Looks like that bird earned its ETOPS rating
-'roo Flyer